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by acidburnNSA 2938 days ago
Ha! Epriest is actually the primary Phabricator developer by my read of their webpage.

Can you guys advertise more? I hear about Atlassian on NPR and my IT team has guys fully sold on their stuff but my team has been operating very cleanly off a Phabricator VM for years now. However IT keeps pushing me to go all Atlassian so they can "support it". I'm like, yo, git pull every few months to upgrade and keep the VM patched. They're like but Atlassian has conferences.

What should I do?

3 comments

Find out, in detail, why they want it.

For us, Crucible was a significant improvement over Phabricator in terms of daily use. My team had been trialing it for several months, and upon demoing it to other teams and our managers, convinced them it was worth switching.

Replace your IT team.
...educate your IT team.
Go Atlassian. So much better.
I disagree, Atlassian products, IMHO, are notoriously full of pain points: speed, usability, lack of updates, old issues languish, lack of accountability, corporate greed, unwilling to add features that compete with "addons/plugins/etc".

Supporting self hosted gets even more murky, documentation tends to be stale, updates tend to be in place and high availability is hit or miss.