[cookiesboxcar]

I really want to love phabricator, but the local install for a new team is so painful... any thoughts about how to make that better?

[Karunamon]

I have this problem too. It's not hard to set up, there are just so many tiny pieces that need to be run by hand that it's going to take a human well over an hour to read through the docs and get it right.

Someone made a Saltstack state[1] that I've used and had some success with - installing and configuring Salt from zero and using this config is still faster than installing Phabricator by hand.

[1]: https://github.com/bougie/salt-phabricator-formula

[lima]

It's actually much easier to setup and operate than GitLab with its massive dependencies.

Also a lot faster.

[Karunamon]

Gitlab is unfortunately a pig, in the large and bloated sense of the term. Which is really sad! I love the app, it looks better than Phabricator and does so much more, but then I can throw Phabricator on the same droplet I use for plenty of other stuff with resources to spare for $5/month, where Gitlab would require a dedicated $10 instance just due to memory usage alone.

Guess I'm just not the target audience :(

[brodock]

You can use gitlab.com for free... don't need to install it in your own box.

[jobvandervoort]

Setting up GitLab can be done through our repositories quite easily nowadays. It boils down to: apt-get install gitlab-ce

[cookiesboxcar]

I'm talking specifically about the client tool arcanist, which IMO is the real benefit of Phabricator

[collyw]

Everyone is talking about installing these services. Don't they have a central hosted server like Gihub?

[segmondy]

Package it as a docker container.