On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Juliusz Gonera <jgonera(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
My worry with Phabricator is that it seems to be a
monolithic piece of
software that tries to do everything. I haven't played with it yet, so I
don't know how dependent its parts are on one another.
I thought the same thing but it looks like it's only semi-monolithic; that
is, it's actually made up of what appear to be multiple pieces of software
- 'a collection of open source applications'. I'm not really sure if
practically that makes much of a difference in terms of avoiding the
pitfalls of monoliths. That said, the folks who've been vocal in the
broader conversation seem to be converging around this, in part because it
resolves the problem of having so many different tools and in part because
it's written with PHP/JS. Apparently it's used by some heavyweights like
facebook, quora, deviantart, etc.
I did play with GitLab a bit and I had a positive
first impression. The
learning curve also shouldn't be too steep with this one since it's modeled
after GitHub/BitBucket which probably almost everyone knows already.
Do we know how this will be decided? Voting of some sort?
There's the RFC, but I am not clear on whether or not this will go through
the usual RFC process. I would assume not since it's not really
architecture decision. Andre and Guillom are the primary drivers and Robla
is deeply involved. They are trying to forge towards some kind of consensus
with those who have gotten involved in the conversation. The big open
questions right now (besides which approach to take) is exploring how
migration would work.
If you want to get in on the convo, I suggest chiming in on the RFC and/or
mailing lists, and there will be another IRC meeting about it in a couple
of weeks (I think it is yet to be scheduled). Alternatively, you can let me
know your thoughts/feelings and I can try to represent them as best I can.
If you have strong feelings, I encourage you to jump into the convo as I
think your own voice will carry more weight.
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