One difference is that it is not limited to GitHub so one can pick stuff
from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, local things etc:

The comments tool is quite nice.

There also the integration with their other apps but this is orthogonal to
the original question.

Phil

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Dale Henrichs <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Phil,
>
> This looks very similar to the code review tool available in GitHub itself
> ... so the primary difference is in the workflow or do see an advantage
> that you are reducing the number of overall commits (by using arc?) or ???
> Dale
>
> On 10/27/2016 01:49 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> For code reviews, Phabricator and Arcanist  are nice. This is like
> Facebook for code. Facebook uses this thing internally. As for FB, there
> are "apps".
>
> [image: Inline image 3]
>
> Differential is the part of Phabricator for doing the reviews.
>
> The key idea is that you cannot commit to the repo directly.
> You use "arc diff" to create a "revision" that you post to the system. You
> get a number for this. Not a long git commit id, but a real number (e.g.
> 610).
> Code review ensues, where people can put comments etc through a web
> interface. Comments can be at any level: file, line of code (click and add
> comment on the line).
>
> We were doing Zend Framework 2 and so PSR-2 standards applied.
>
> There was a check happening before even being able to submit, so be
> compliant or do not pass. A pain, but ultimately catched a few bugs that
> could have been nasty.
>
> Once the review is successful, a user with the proper permissions will do
> an "arc land"
>
> Once arc land was done, the differential landed on the github repo, and
> the CI could pick it up for official packaging.
>
> All in all, it is a nice workflow when lots of people are working at once
> on a code base. Also allows to limit the amount of crap ending up in the
> official repo due to devs not having a clue (happened).
>
> I used the toolset for a project where the developers where remote and it
> worked well (team size: Belgium 3 people, Romania 10+).
>
> Code was in Github private repo.
>
> https://secure.phabricator.com/
>
> One can look around.
>
> HTH
> Phil
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Dale Henrichs <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Guillermo,
>>
>> Apparently you don't like the github browser-based code review tool?
>>
>> What are your objections?
>>
>> Do you know of a better tool that is out in the wild or do you just have
>> visions that code review could be better?
>>
>> Better tools are always possible, but it is sometimes nice to use a tool
>> that you didn't have to build from scratch while creating the better tool:)
>>
>> Dale
>> On 10/27/2016 05:06 AM, Guillermo Polito wrote:
>>
>> I would like to have a good code review tool, before having to do one
>> ad-hoc...
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Denis Kudriashov <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> With future transition to github I ask myself what tools we will have
>>> out of the box.
>>> I google a bit and found these nice service http://ghv.artzub.com.
>>> Try to search guillep and then pharo-core. It looks really nice.
>>>
>>> What other online services you know to analyse github projects?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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