Lets move this conversation to the discussion page. On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Juliusz Gonera <[email protected]> > 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. > > -- > Arthur Richards > Software Engineer, Mobile > [[User:Awjrichards]] > IRC: awjr > +1-415-839-6885 x6687 > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >
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