Phabricator
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Phabricator is an open-source software development platform used for project management, bug reporting, feature requests, and code review in an integrated fashion.
For a Wikimedia-centric overview, watch the Tech Talk The Very Basics of Phabricator. Bugzilla users are encouraged to read our Phabricator versus Bugzilla comparison.
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phabricator.wikimedia.org[edit | edit source]
After a favorable request for comment, we are deploying https://phabricator.wikimedia.org to replace Bugzilla, RT, Trello, Mingle, Gerrit, and gitblit. Why?
- The volume and complexity of our software projects keeps increasing; MediaWiki and Bugzilla fall short for project management.
- WMF teams are increasingly using Mingle and Trello, 3rd-party commercial services that are alien to the Wikimedia community and principles. This is creating a divide. Wikimedia Germany is trying Scrumbugz, a one-man OSS project barely maintained.
- Overlap, duplication, and actions falling between the cracks increase.
- To mitigate this problem, we have created more tools to synchronize information between services (like Bingle or Gerrit notifications in Bugzilla). They need to be maintained (e.g. when one service is upgraded and its API interface has changed).
- Contributing to Bugzilla (Perl) and Gerrit (Java) is complex for us (mainly PHP developers, and Phabricator is written in PHP).
- The current setup brings overhead and annoyance to key developers:
- Senior developers having to use heavily Mingle/Trello in addition to Gerrit and Bugzilla.
- New contributors arriving with GitHub-like expectations.
Migration timeline[edit | edit source]
Beware, the Phabricator team may change this sequence as plans evolve (although we try not to). If you need more details, you can find them at T174 - Launch Wikimedia Phabricator Day 1.
Done Deployment of https://legalpad.wikimedia.org/ (project)- Done Migration of data from fab.wmflabs.org to phabricator.wikimedia.org
- Done New test instance in Labs open to everyone, blocked by
- Done phabricator.wikimedia.org open to all Wikimedia users
- Done Test instance containing Bugzilla reports automatically migrated
In progress end of Bugzilla preview feedback period, announcement of Bugzilla migration date.
To do, earliest 2014-11-21: Bugzilla migration (1-4 days downtime, see detailed timeline), blocked by
- Done Community review of the Bugzilla migration test instance (two weeks)
- In progress Bugzilla to Phabricator import script
- Done Elasticsearch
- To do Move Bugzilla to old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org as a read-only instance
- To do Automatic redirects from Bugzilla reports to Phabricator tasks
- In progress Wiki templates for Bugzilla pointing to Phabricator
- Done Gerrit plugin to sync tasks with code reviews
- To do IRC bots reporting Phabricator activity
- Done How to organize projects
- Done How to claim Bugzilla reports
- To do Documentation for Bugzilla users
- In progress Communication plan
- Done Approval from Wikimedia Foundation Engineering management
- To do Reminder: Bugzilla migrated projects and tasks must be Visible To Public
- To do, earliest 2014-11-28: RT migration (1-3 days downtime), blocked by
- In progress Interaction with external users via email
- In progress Define main tasks (epics) for code review in Phabricator
- In progress, expected during October or November: Burndown charts & migration from Scrumbugz
- To do, expected before the end of 2014: Total migration from Mingle
- To do, expected before the end of 2014: Total migration from Trello
- To do, expected before the end of 2014: Proof of concept of code review in Phabricator
- To do, before 2015-03-31? Total migration from gitblit
- To do, before 2015-03-31? Total migration from Gerrit
- To do, before 2015-06-30? Total migration from Jenkins
In progress end of Bugzilla preview feedback period, announcement of Bugzilla migration date.
To do, earliest 2014-11-21: Get started[edit | edit source]
Access to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org is open, but please be aware of the migration timeline and the fact that the site might be entirely down during the RT and Bugzilla migrations.
There is a test instance at phab-01.wmflabs.org. Use it to learn and experiment, not for serious work.
Learn more about Phabricator versus Bugzilla. You can also watch a screencast about handling tasks/bugs.
If you have questions, check the Help and the FAQ.
Get involved[edit | edit source]
We are working on the migration of several developer infrastructure services to one single Phabricator instance. It's a very exciting project! We welcome your help.
- Learn to use Phabricator. Play and test in our Labs instance as much as you want.
- You might want to watch the kick-off meeting of the Wikimedia Phabricator Day 1 project.
- Bugzilla, RT, Trello, and Mingle users are welcome to the Phabricator project. Your help is welcome anywhere, but especially in the tasks that are blocking Day 1.
- Git and Gerrit users are welcome to the Code Review in Phabricator project. We need help learning about the possibilities of Phabricator in this area: what is missing, what exists in a different way, what is remarkably interesting, which are the blockers that should be reported upstream?
Developers[edit | edit source]
As a PHP developer, you're welcome to contribute enhancements and new features upstream. Learn more at Phabricator/Code.
