Phabricator Reviews

Phabricator has such a large array of tools for coding I can test everything inside their suite.

I haven't had any major issues using phabricator to work with my code and the fact that is free and open-sourced means fewer updates on the program itself.

Phabricator makes it really easy for you to move from setup to creating tasks and projects. It's secure, open source, multi-functional and honestly just amazing.

Not all the features are available right away, so it does require a little configuration to ensure it works the way you want it to.

Phabricator is an easy to implement and free tool, that can be used as a task/bug manager/tracker. It's pretty versatile and offers various pre-installed tools/plugins, with a lot of possible parameters to play with in order to create Projects, related tasks and link this to your repository solution (we are using Git). It offers the possibility to work with lists or board (kan-ban style), it has a free sprint plug-in that allows to Phabricator to be used as a scrum tool. Being free and stand-alone, it allows integrators/developers to come up with their own scripts and/or plugins.

It's a bit confusing at first, since the information can be presented in different style, at different places and, therefore, can be interpreted in different ways. The development is slow and a lot of features requested by paying customers as much as free users seem to take a long time before being addressed. It's understandable but could be a downer for potential users. The community behind it is not as active as other solutions, so finding a solution to your problem could take time and effort.

Phabricator is a great tool for medium to large company. It provides everything need for a large group of engineers and is perfect for monorepo.

It doesn't have a good per-repo permission control or customization.

I really like the interface of Phabricator. It's definitely user friendly.

The search engine can be improved when searching for this.

Its not just the diff being reviewed, its wrapped between all the contextual info as well. - Phabricator does a great job surfacing all the information like passing/failing tests - Your git stack is avaialble as part of the diff review, lets you see how the feature is evolving As close to pair programming as it gets at a distance.

The setup can be a bit complicated given you want to host your codebase on the web. To take full advantage of a CI features, you'll wire up the unit tests and deployment machines to test each diff and how it affects the big picture.

It's simple. Things work well within the system. You can refer objects by just their ids. Code review is easy. Task and project management is simple Very good command line support

I love it. The only thing that others may not like is that it's not as full featured as JIRA. But that may be a feature

Works very smooth and has little to no issues performance wise

UI is meh, no auto refreshes or auto updates on boards make it frustrating. I have to manually refresh the page in order to see comments on tickets

We used this software to help our company get organized with ordering supplies and keeping up with employee needs.

It was not easy to use. The engineers found it very useful for their flow, but regular employees had a hard time navigating and understanding how to make requests using the system

Phabricator is entirely open source, so there's no need to worry about licensing fees. It supports multiple version control systems, which may be helpful in mixed environments. Its rule engine for notifications, Herald, allows us to set up complex notification schemes based on specific criteria.

I have fundamental problems with the way that Phabricator is designed. First, Phabricator is deployed as a Git repository and extensive amounts of manual setup. No easy deployment and upgrades for you! GitLab, which is a significantly bigger project, can be deployed as a single Linux package. This wouldn't be so painful if Phabricator's documentation was up to snuff, but it isn't. There are many aspects...

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The ability to view code side-by-side; intelligent diff calculation; macros make reviewing fun; simple, intuitive and easy to understand state machine for the commit

Features outside of code review and browsing code are quite rudimentary, and as a result I end up using other tools for task management, etc.

I loved that I was able to escalate issues with local geographic issues to a global team.

The CX is not the best if you're outside of a software engineering position. But it helped improve processes in a global company for me.

easy to use great open source option for code submission and review tool for code changes and approval processes

github has a free trial for sampling the software and has beeter infrastructure automation offerings

Good tool for users to contact and work with Engineers. Since Engineers might be staring at lines of code for hours, they will be slow to respond to emails. This is a good tool to contact them.

It looks very dated. It can be very hard to maneuver around if you are not familiar with the interface.

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