Hey, (Sending this to the ML so as to not pollute/spam the pull request[0].)
Don, I think you make some good points about pull requests being bad. They seem great at first glance, but turn out to be very lacking for certain kinds of projects (such as ours, where we have to care about lots of platforms and configurations and one tiny little change can trivially break everything). I recently took a liking to Phabricator[1] for project management. The sliiightly witty site pretty much summarizes what it does. The primary reason I like it is that it integrates well with Git (both locally and remotely) and is based around the idea of sending a *snapshot* of a bunch of commits (or a branch) for review rather than GitHub's approach where you always see the latest version of a branch. It also has commit auditing so people can follow up on committed code that may be bad/needs fixing. Phabricator also has a wiki which I think could be very useful for documenting development processes (as opposed to the somewhat obscure wiki it's located on right now). I don't think we'll need the task management part of Phabricator. Though, I suppose it sort of depends on whether we're going to use Trello seriously. One thing I learned from using both Trello and Phabricator was that Phabricator is much more scalable in terms of having an overview of a ton of tasks, whereas Trello can easily turn into a nightmare in this regard. You can see Phabricator in action at Facebook's instance[2] or at the one we're using over at Lycus[3] (just log in with your GitHub account). FWIW the LLVM folks also recently started using Phabricator[4]. Another advantage of Phabricator is that it has a very extensive API[5] (as opposed to GitHub's somewhat lacking API). Note that despite them calling it low-priority, the API has actually been stable for many months now and is used by Arcanist[6]. The only immediate downside I see to Phabricator is that the barrier to contribution is going to be a bit taller. It does require a bit of effort to install Arcanist in order to send commits for review. Thoughts, everyone? Regards, Alex [0] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1123#issuecomment-9073020 [1] http://phabricator.org [2] https://secure.phabricator.com [3] http://phabricator.lycus.org [4] http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com [5] http://www.phabricator.com/docs/phabricator/article/Conduit_Technical_Documentation.html [6] http://www.phabricator.com/docs/phabricator/article/Arcanist_User_Guide.html _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
