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@group intro
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Insight into the direction and progress of Phabricator. This document was last
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updated **June 29, 2011**.
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updated **July 22, 2011**.
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= Status =
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Phabricator is in an early release stage, but quite usable. The project is under
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active development, with around 200 commits from a dozen contributors in the
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last 30 days. Morale is high. A few people are tweeting about it. Someone wrote
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a Wikipedia page. There are a handful of questions on Quora. As far as we know,
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the product has a perfect safety record and has not caused anyone violent
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physical harm.
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active development.
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= Current Development =
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Phabricator was released about two months ago. Since then, the focus has been
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on two major areas:
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The current focus on Phabricator is primarily feature buildout, particularly in
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these applications:
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- **Setup/Install Process**: There was barely any install/setup documentation
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when we released.
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- **Pilot Installs**: Facebook was the only install when we released. We
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wanted to get some early adopters to do installs and give us feedback.
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The setup/install process is much better now (there's still room for work, of
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course) and we've gotten a bunch of great feedback from pilot installs (and
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implemented a lot of it).
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We've also been focusing a lot on things that are mostly feature buildout:
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- **Maniphest**: I wrote Maniphest in about 20 hours in January to track bugs
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in Phabricator itself, but it seems to be getting a lot of traction. We're
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doing a lot of feature buildout for it to make it more full-fledged, more
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scalable, better integrated, and more useful.
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- **Maturing New Applications**: Generally, there are a lot of apps
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which landed recently in Phabricator's history (Maniphest, Projects, Search,
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and Paste are all less than 6 months old; Herald and Diffusion are about
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a year old; Differential is about 4 years old) which are missing obvious
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features. We're fixing this stuff.
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- **Roles and Permissions**: At Facebook, everyone basically had access to
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everything but this doesn't work everywhere, especially for open source
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projects. We're working on making this more granular and auditable.
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- **Version 1.0**: At some point we probably need to bite the bullet, figure
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out release management, and cut a release. We should probably build some
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kind of update notifier before we do this. We can probably put this off for
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a while longer by just declaring trunk a "kind of okay now release" since
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the balance of feedback for this model has been positive (we've been able to
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respond quick to a lot of bug reports and get fixes out in a few hours),
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it's just off-putting to have the documentation caveating the project's
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readiness so heavily.
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- **Performance and Quality**: These are permanent priorities for the project,
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and we're doing a lot of work to continue improving both.
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- **Maniphest**: A lot of early adopters are getting into the suite because
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of this tool, and we're continuing to improve it.
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- **Phriction**: We just landed a wiki application, which basically works but
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needs a bunch of improvements.
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- **Feed**: A rough cut of feed landed recently but needs a ton of work.
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- **Projects**: Projects are getting a bit more useful, but we want to
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continue adding features.
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= Future Development =
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Most of the future work involves feature buildout. These are projects we're
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Most of the future work also involves feature buildout. These are projects we're
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thinking about in a very early stage, and may not happen or may look completely
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different when we implement them:
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- **Activity Streams / News Feed**: It can be difficult to get a sense of
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project activity right now. Some sort of news feed is the obvious approach,
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but a lot of the models for this aren't great (Google Code, GitHub,
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Facebook's internal news feed) and we can probably build a more useful
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product if we spend some time on it. This dataset has a pretty good mapping
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to "importance" (a review is more important than a comment) which isn't as
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strong in social data. Stressing that might get us somewhere useful.
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- **Projects**: This is a feature which existed with a very basic
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implementation at Facebook, called "tags". It had a lot of product problems
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that we're experimenting with addressing by making projects more heavyweight
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and structured. This feature is really bare-bones right now but seems to
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be getting some traction in pilot installs and there are a lot of obvious
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ways to build it out, integrate it, and make it more useful.
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- **Wiki**: We're probably going to build something like a Wiki since it's
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the biggest hole in the "complete package" that Phabricator presents. We
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have a lot of the infrastructure we need to do this quickly and some product
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ideas which could fix a lot of the problems we had with Facebook's wiki.
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Biggest blocker here is coming up with a totally awesome name for it.
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- **Hosted/Managed Repositories**: We're starting to develop some features to
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let Phabricator host or manage repositories, since this simplifies and
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unblocks some stuff we'd like to eventually build.
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- **Drydock**: Build infrastructure to let Phabricator manage working copies
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in a scalable way. This is a general piece of infrastructure which enables
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us to build a lot of features, like: sandcastle (your changes are
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the many other products in this space? For now, improving the software is
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probably the most important thing we can do to achieve any of these goals,
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but we don't currently have a clear long-term vision.
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