[llvm-dev] Phabricator Creator Pulling the Plug

Renato Golin via llvm-dev
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:38:33 -0000

On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 at 18:17, MyDeveloper Day via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> But unless I missed this, was there any discussion regarding the recent
> "Winding Down" announcement of Phabricator? and what it might
mean for us
> in LLVM
>

I think we have our own self-hosted version and enough local people that
has hacked on it to "maintain" it, but we'd stop getting the
updated from
upstream, which have been substantial over the years.

I don't think this should be a rush to replace with an alternative, as
there is no imminent peril, but it is an additional important point for the
ongoing discussion of potential transition.

Personally I'm excited by the concept of a community driven replacement
(
> https://we.phorge.it/) .
> epriestley did a truly amazing job, it wasn't open to public
> contributions. Perhaps more open development could lead to closing some of
> the github gaps that were of concern.
>

IMO, it would have to be seriously active upstream, understand our existing
database "as is" and import without problems, and interface with
Github
more closely to be worth the hassle of migration.

Github pull requests don't seem to be improving a lot, so "phorge"
may be
the right answer sooner than they catch up...

cheers,
--renato
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