Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform

Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by skrebbel on Saturday April 19, 2014 @11:36AM (#7613656)

I love their writing.

http://phabricator.org:

    Review Code or just stare at it 
    Review others' code with Differential, because they can't be trusted. 

    ... 

    • Shows text in several different colors.

    ... 

    Have terrible software? Keep track of all the defects and problems with
    your awful code using Maniphest. 

    • Keeps track of bugs.
    • You can assign them to people.
    • Maybe you could fix them eventually. (optional)

    ...

    The arcanist command line tool gives you CLI access to most of Phabricator's 
    functionality.

    • Many cryptic commands.
    • ...

http://phacility.com/:

    Phabricator, except you pay money for it.

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by ris on Saturday April 19, 2014 @12:12PM (#7613750)

My favourite:

* Written in PHP so literally anyone can contribute, even if they have no idea how to program.

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by nanidin on Saturday April 19, 2014 @01:15PM (#7613978)

When I read the page I couldn't tell if it was serious or some sort of April Fool's joke that someone forgot to take down and almost immediately dismissed it as something that people would actually use.

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by Shish2k on Saturday April 19, 2014 @03:06PM (#7614355)

Personally I interpret language like that as "built by developers, for developers", as opposed to the "built by a committee of graphic artists and lawyers, to appeal to the CEO who imposes random decisions upon developers" feel that I get from most enterprise software...

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by skrebbel on Saturday April 19, 2014 @01:50PM (#7614080)

Doesn't that worry you?

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by nanidin on Saturday April 19, 2014 @01:55PM (#7614102)

It would worry me if I were Phabricator, or if I were trying to get others to buy into using it in a professional environment.

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by epriest on Saturday April 19, 2014 @02:46PM (#7614285)

Anecdotally, we get much more positive feedback about the tone and copy than negative feedback. It's certainly possible we're just not hearing the negative feedback, but we get plenty of other negative feedback about other things, so this would be an unusual blind spot.

The tone of the project itself is similar to the tone of the site, so if you find it off-putting or believe your co-workers would find it unprofessional, the product may not be a great fit for your environment anyway.

We also haven't heard feedback about anyone having difficulty convincing others to try Phabricator because of the project's tone. Again, it's possible we're just not aware of it, but we have heard feedback about other issues in this vein (for example, the LAMP stack being a hard sell).

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by timestretch on Saturday April 19, 2014 @03:35PM (#7614443)

Evan, thanks for all the hard work on this project.

We use it every day at work. At first we were like, what is this 'Clowncopterize' button? But then we enabled the serious business flag and we were off and running.

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by epriest on Saturday April 19, 2014 @03:41PM (#7614463)

Thanks!

We also just got rid of "Clowncopterize":

https://secure.phabricator.com/D8812

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by devriesp on Saturday April 19, 2014 @04:08PM (#7614540)

Ahh... please leave this in as an option. The funny terminology is one of the best parts of Phabricator! I think removing this is sad...

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by skrebbel on Saturday April 19, 2014 @03:10PM (#7614371)

I meant to imply that if a little dry humour scares you away from an open source project, then maybe that says a little about you, too.

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by aw3c2 on Saturday April 19, 2014 @03:18PM (#7614392)

It did not scare him away, it made him question the legitimacy. That's not something you want.

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by nanidin on Saturday April 19, 2014 @04:09PM (#7614546)

I guess I just prefer my tools to stay out of the way

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Re:Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform by orta on Saturday April 19, 2014 @01:26PM (#7614016)

My favourites are the menu items at the bottom.

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