This is incredibly, incredibly sad: admin.phacility.com/phame/post/vie
introduced Phabricator to me 6 years ago, and we implemented it at my company after a month-long test. It was life-changing software.
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Phab saved our asses a ton of times.
My boss would ask: "Why did we decide not to implement this feature? A customer is asking." And within 5 mins I could go from git blame to the specific task documenting why we chose not to implement something. Everything was linked.
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More importantly, Phab's code review workflow encouraged every change to be squashed into a single commit, to be rebased on top of master. It made deployments and rollbacks trivially simple: secure.phabricator.com/book/phabflavo
(This was how tasks were ALWAYS associated with one commit.)
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The interface was also incredible for tracking development across many devs. I remember an intern sitting on a couch, writing his internship report simply by going through his Phab activity.
And I remember saving Fridays for reviewing the activity of EVERY dev in my org.
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The only knock against Phab was the lack of good CI support. And I think Gitlab and Github may have finally caught up.
Phabricator was truly incredible software. I'm very sorry to see it go.
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(Now I'm debating shutting down my account with them, and digging up the old Ansible playbook I wrote to install Phabricator on a server. Not sure if I want to run my own instance forever, though ...)
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15 hours later: yeah, I now run all my projects on a self-hosted instance of Phabricator, mirrored to GitHub.
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Well, this is good news:
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We want to talk to people who love Phabricator and think GitHub code review needs improvement: forms.gle/PvUdXESUNVU8XT
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That solves for the hosting part: what will be more critical is longer term maintenance of project? I'm curious to see what will happen with bigger institutional users (wikimedia, dropbox, Uber, etc)
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I’m actually ok with that — Phabricator has been rock solid for me for years and years (ran a hosted install for about 5 years at prev company, and it’s still going strong). I’m assuming it’s ‘done’ software for my use case, and willing to stick it out for a few more.
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