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Phabricator
Screenshot of Wikimedia Phabricator
Original author
Evan Priestley
Facebook, Inc.
Developers
Phacility, Inc
Initial release
2010
; 16 years ago
2010
Written in
PHP
Operating system
Unix-like
Platform
Cross-platform
Available in
Type
Code review
bug tracker
License
Apache License 2.0
Website
phacility
.com
/phabricator
Repository
github
.com
/phacility
/phabricator
Phabricator
is a
free and open source
suite of
web-based
development collaboration tools
Its suite of tools includes
Differential, a
code review tool
Diffusion
, a
repository browser
Herald,
a change monitoring tool,
Maniphest,
bug tracker
, and a
wiki
called
Phriction
It integrates with
Git
Mercurial
, and
Subversion
Phabricator was originally developed as an internal tool at
overseen by Evan Priestley.
Priestley left Facebook in 2011 to continue Phabricator's development in a new company called
Phacility
Phacility announced that it was winding down operations and placing Phabricator in a bare minimum
maintenance mode
in 2021,
10
with no future updates expected.
A community
fork
Phorge
, was created and announced its stable release to the public on September 7, 2022, and is actively updated.
11
Notable users
edit
Phabricator and its forks have been used by:
AngularJS
12
Asana
Blender
13
Discord
14
Dropbox
15
FreeBSD
16
GnuPG
17
Khan Academy
18
19
KDE
20
Mozilla
21
22
LLVM
Clang
LLDB (debugger)
/LLD (linker)
23
Lubuntu
24
25
SingleStore
(formerly MemSQL)
Pinterest
26
27
Quora
28
Uber
Wikimedia Foundation
29
Wildfire Games
30
31
Bohemia Interactive
Gallery
edit
A Phabricator workboard
A generic Phabricator homepage
An example of a task form creation
Continuous integration in Phabricator
Some user-defined Phabricator projects
See also
edit
Free and open-source software portal
List of tools for code review
References
edit
Fagerholm, F.; Johnson, P.; Guinea, A. S.; Borenstein, J.; Münch, J. (2013). "Onboarding in Open Source Software Projects: A Preliminary Analysis".
2013 IEEE 8th International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops
. pp.
5–
10.
arXiv
1311.1334
doi
10.1109/ICGSEW.2013.8
ISBN
978-0-7695-5055-8
S2CID
7114963
"Evan Priestley (LinkedIn)"
. Retrieved
October 24,
2013
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link
"Installation Guide"
. Phacility.
"phabricator/LICENSE at master · phacility/phabricator · GitHub"
GitHub
. September 17, 2022.
"What is Phabricator?"
. Archived from
the original
on October 29, 2013
. Retrieved
October 24,
2013
Dentel, C.; Nordio, M.; Meyer, B. (2012). "Monitors: Keeping Informed on Code Changes".
Independent Research
. ETH Zürich.
"Phabricator Project History"
. Retrieved
October 24,
2013
Tsotsis, Alexia (August 7, 2011).
"Meet Phabricator, the Witty Code Review Tool Built Inside Facebook"
TechCrunch
. Archived from
the original
on October 1, 2017
. Retrieved
October 24,
2013
"A Look at Phabricator: Facebook's Web-Based Open Source Code Collaboration Tool"
. September 28, 2011. Archived from the original on March 18, 2013
. Retrieved
October 24,
2013
"Phacility is Winding Down Operations"
. May 29, 2021.
Eyal, Aviv (September 7, 2022).
"Going Public"
Phorge
. Retrieved
September 27,
2022
McCampbell, Johnny (October 7, 2016).
"The Forbes Front End Epochalypse"
Forbes
. Retrieved
October 3,
2018
"Tools/Phabricator"
wiki.blender.org
Blender
"Discord's Phabricator"
bugs.discord.com
. Archived from
the original
on January 15, 2021
. Retrieved
April 15,
2021
Barua, Hrishikesh (September 7, 2017).
"How Facebook Achieves Rapid Release at Massive Scale"
. Retrieved
October 3,
2018
"Phabricator"
reviews.freebsd.org
. Retrieved
January 24,
2019
"GnuPG Development Hub"
. Retrieved
April 28,
2021
"GitHub - Khan/phabricator"
GitHub
. March 28, 2021
. Retrieved
September 19,
2021
"What I did at Khan Academy"
Zero Wind :: Jamie Wong
. Retrieved
September 19,
2021
"KDE's Phabricator"
phabricator.kde.org
"Mozilla Phabricator"
Mozilla
. June 11, 2021.
"Phabricator code review - Mozilla wiki"
. Retrieved
June 11,
2021
"Code Reviews with Phabricator - LLVM 8 Documentation"
. Archived from
the original
on August 17, 2023
. Retrieved
November 11,
2018
"Join Phabricator"
lubuntu.me
. December 5, 2017
. Retrieved
June 5,
2021
"Lubuntu Phabricator"
. Archived from
the original
on June 10, 2023
. Retrieved
June 5,
2021
"Pinterest + ktlint = ❤"
Pinterest Engineering blog
. May 10, 2019
. Retrieved
June 5,
2021
pinterest/arcanist-linters
Pinterest
, June 5, 2021
, retrieved
June 5,
2021
"Organizations Using Phabricator"
. Retrieved
July 14,
2021
"Wikimedia Phabricator"
phabricator.wikimedia.org
. Retrieved
January 19,
2019
"Wildfire Games Phabricator"
. Retrieved
June 4,
2021
"Phabricator documentation"
Wildfire Games
. Retrieved
June 5,
2021
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2022
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1998
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2002
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2013
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1999
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2000
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2002
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2004
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2008
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2008
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2011
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2014
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2019
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Naomi Gleit
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Nicola Mendelsohn
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Adam Mosseri
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Thomas Reardon
Reality Labs
director)
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Charlie Cheever
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Yishan Wong
George Hotz
Joe Lockhart
Andrei Alexandrescu
(research scientist)
Chamath Palihapitiya
(VP of User Growth)
Elliot Schrage
(VP of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy)
Frances Haugen
(Product Manager of Civic Integrity Team)
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