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Re:An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools by corentin88 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:17AM (#25218298)
Critique seems a well-guarded secret inside Google. Can't find more information on it. No images. Interesting
Re:An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools by lima on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:59AM (#25219640)
Not really. The "Software Engineering at Google" book[1] has a whole chapter on it with screenshots.

Gerrit, Reviewable and Phabricator are very similar, except that Critique is much more polished.

Having used all three, Gerrit works best and the new UI is starting to look pretty good. Reviewable has great UX, but inherits some of the disadvantages of GitHub PRs.

[1]: https://books.google.de/books/about/Software_Engineering_at_...

Re:An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools by hadrien01 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @01:06PM (#25222234)
Your link just goes to the Google Books homepage in my browser
Re:An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools by kubanczyk on Thursday November 26, 2020 @03:31PM (#25223315)
Same for me. I think it's https://books.googlecom/books?id=WXTTDwAAQBAJ. It has no preview of the Critique-related fragments.
Re:An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools by Sesse__ on Thursday November 26, 2020 @01:00PM (#25222191)
It's a reimplementation of an earlier system called Mondrian, which you can find some information on.
Re:An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools by cmrdporcupine on Thursday November 26, 2020 @02:26PM (#25222869)
I used Mondrian for the last couple months it existed, and I recall critique being fairly different.

I think they kept the same keystrokes, though.

That is one nice thing about Critique is although it's a webapp you can drive it pretty much entirely by keyboard. It has the feel of an old usenet newsreader like nn, in a way.

Re:An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools by ikiris on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:53AM (#25218483)
Here I'm sitting here thinking could I draw it from memory?
Re:An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools by antoinealb on Thursday November 26, 2020 @05:03AM (#25218529)
It went through a re-design recently. I don't think I would call it a well-guarded secret though, if you look at Phabricator's Differential, it is very similar [0].

[0] https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/differential/

Re:An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools by jonhohle on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:09AM (#25220619)
Reading through that page it seems like every single component is an unrelated, seemingly random, “cute” name. Are cli, triggers/actions, and rules too generic? Out of context, what meaning do Arcanist, Maniphest, or Herald have?
Re:An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools by chrizel on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:35AM (#25220844)
Related answer from one of the developers: https://www.quora.com/Phabricator/Phabricator-Why-is-the-Bro...

But yeah... even I find the names difficult to handle and remember, even after using Phabricator for more than 4 years now. Nevertheless, it is a great piece of software, especially the code review process is top-notch.