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http://phabricator.org/ seems really good.


Is there a Phabricator vs GitLab shoot-out anywhere?

The GitLab people are always posting here, so it seems the stuff you can read here about it is rather biased.


Hard to say since every tool out there moves very fast and we're just building what we think our users want. Overall my personal opinion is the "pull request" model is flawed for businesses but great for open source. Phabricator doesn't serve two masters in that regard. This means we focus more on developer efficiency and code quality. Tools like arcanist are harder to convince people to adopt, but save me personally a few hours each week. (Arcanist does pre-commit lint, unit, and patch emitting). Other tools like Herald (business actions!) and Owners (claim you own code!) are also highly useful at scale.

Our lead dev posted some explanations on how we're different than other popular choices: https://secure.phabricator.com/phame/post/view/766/write_rev...

David Cramer also publish some thoughts on the pull request model: http://cramer.io/2014/05/03/on-pull-requests


I don't know. The homepage of Phabricator doesn't give me the impression the developers take the task of building a corporate collaboration tool very seriously.


Sounds like you might prefer the Serious Business Edition(TM) [1] of Phabricator. I don't fault them for having a little fun/being irreverent (or as they call it:'flavor'), but it's a config setting you can toggle on your deployment, seriously [1]

1. https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/tone...


We don't taking building marketing pages seriously. But the software is solid, and we're a founding partner of HackerOne.


There are probably many people who are too uptight even for octocat, it is a weak criticism, especially when it can be disabled.


Phabricator is a underrated git hosting solution. Maybe because they bill themselves as modern bugzilla.


Not sure what you mean, I've always billed it as an internal tools platform since it's our intent to have it do everything you need. (bugs, repo, review, kanban, wiki, chat, etc)




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