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Summary: - Link to "importing a repository" from Config next steps, since it's not obvious (and the article isn't obviously named). - Some minor doc tweaks. - Remove "Roadmap" document since it's super out of date and not very useful. Test Plan: Regenerated and read documentation. Reviewers: btrahan, jungejason Reviewed By: jungejason CC: aran, jungejason Maniphest Tasks: T743 Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D1384
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@title Introduction
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@group intro
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This document provides a high-level overview of the Phabricator project.
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= What is Phabricator? =
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**Phabricator** (pronounced like the word //fabricator//) is a suite of web
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applications which make it easier to build software, particularly when working
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with teams. Phabricator is largely based on Facebook's internal tools.
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The major components of Phabricator are:
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- **Differential**, a code review tool; and
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- **Diffusion**, a repository browser; and
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- **Maniphest**, a bug tracker; and
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- **Phriction**, a wiki.
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Phabricator also includes a number of smaller tools.
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= Why use Phabricator? =
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Phabricator gives you a box of solid tools for a comparatively small setup cost.
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The tools all work together and are richly integrated. The whole thing is free
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and open source. You own all your data. Phabricator is extremely fast and proven
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to scale both to large datasets (Facebook has 500,000+ commits across many
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repositories) and large organizations (Facebook has 500+ fulltime engineers).
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Phabricator's tools are easy to learn, understand, and use.
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However, Phabricator may also not be a good solution for you:
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- If you develop primarily on Windows, you are likely to find integration
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with the toolsets you use lacking.
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- If you don't use SVN, Git or Mercurial, you'll have to add support for your
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VCS before you can get anywhere.
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- If you loathe PHP, well, it's written in PHP. Sorry. It is a victim of
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circumstances. We assert it is well-written PHP, at least.
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= Next Steps =
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Continue by:
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- installing Phabricator with the @{article:Installation Guide}.
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