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.
>
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