[HN Gopher] Phorge: Going Public
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Phorge: Going Public
Author : RealStickman_
Score : 102 points
Date : 2022-09-17 19:54 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| KerrAvon wrote:
| I seem to be in the minority, but I found Phabricator to be a
| very unpleasant code review experience. Because it doesn't speak
| git natively, it would frequently just spew commits from an
| arbitrary branch into PRs, for no apparent reason. And because
| reviews weren't based on actual git branches, people could throw
| patches that you couldn't actually build into it. Awful, awful
| thing.
| encryptluks2 wrote:
| Is that different than JIRA? I always thought Phabricator was
| just awesome as a JIRA alternative
| cpeterso wrote:
| Phabricator is a whole suite of integrated web-based software
| development tools:
|
| * Differential, a code review tool
|
| * Diffusion, a repository browser
|
| * Herald, a change monitoring tool
|
| * Maniphest, a bug tracker
|
| * Phriction, a wiki
| bogota wrote:
| You need to buy into the phab workflow which is diff based not
| branch based. Once you accept that the experience is awesome.
| For many people they don't understand git enough unfortunately
| to appreciate the workflow not that it doesn't have its flaws
| but it has worked amazingly on both large and small teams for
| me
| remote_phone wrote:
| I loved Phabricator. It's the system that made the most sense to
| me, with no real issues. I was shocked when I saw that no more
| work was going to be done with it and I'm glad to see someone
| pick it up!
| yuan43 wrote:
| So is this like an open source GitHub issues? What problem(s)
| does it solve that can't be solved through GitHub?
| encryptluks2 wrote:
| I think you answered your own question but it does a lot more
| than that. Did you check out the features page?
| yuan43 wrote:
| I'd like to hear from someone who has used it.
| bsder wrote:
| Given that Github is now owned by Microsoft who can pull your
| identity or shut down your repository on a whim, being an open
| source GitHub issues is plenty enough, no?
| bogota wrote:
| Having more than one option should be generally seen as a good
| thing. I don't think an open source project needs to justify
| its existence if you dont want to take the time to learn what
| it actually does
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| It would have been nice to get some commitments from the bigger
| Phabricator users before going public, so I could read this and
| see oh projects x, y, and z are going to be using Phorge! But
| maybe they wouldn't until they see what kind of project it's
| going to turn out to be..
| _mway wrote:
| The "features of Phorge" link on https://phorge.it/ is broken: it
| currently links to
| https://we.phorge.it/book/phabricator/article/introduction/,
| which is a 404 (looks like just a s/phabricator/phorge/ typo in
| the URL).
|
| Edit: actually looks several of the homepage links are broken.
| skybrian wrote:
| What is Phorge:
|
| https://we.phorge.it/book/phorge/article/introduction/
| mdaniel wrote:
| And while I'm sure that documentation is handy for standing up
| one's own Phorge, I find concrete examples to be more useful
|
| Issues: https://we.phorge.it/T15034
|
| Pull Request: https://we.phorge.it/D25015 (or the less
| "Outlook-ish" view of show me the goods, _then_ I 'll know what
| you're _talking_ about: https://we.phorge.it/D25015#toc )
|
| CI: https://we.phorge.it/harbormaster/build/69/
|
| and I guess a "stack overflow for teams" replacement:
| https://we.phorge.it/Q14
| Jabbles wrote:
| "Facebook has 500+ fulltime engineers"
|
| Technically true, but seems out of date...
| dom96 wrote:
| Brilliant to see this. I still miss Phabricator + Mercurial from
| my time at Facebook, best code review experience ever.
| dfee wrote:
| Just take a look at that page.
|
| Line height issues. Odd icons. Weird verbiage. Swapping 'ph' for
| 'f'. A declaration the author is a 'User', with no projects, and
| a "tada" token (whatever that is).
|
| Phab users may feel right at home. Unfortunately.
|
| Yes, my phab experience has been underwhelming and quite
| confusing. Each piece functions nominally, but is a miserable
| cacophony of integration. I hope the leaders of this project take
| some creative liberties with the vision and organization. It's
| needed - lest a full restart of this thinking take the reins.
| goodoldneon wrote:
| Good stuff! I miss Phab's task trees and stacked diffs
| ferdowsi wrote:
| Exciting stuff! Phabricator was one of the better project/dev
| management systems I've interacted with and I'm glad to see
| developer energy behind maintaining and improving it!
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