Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by abbe98 1843 days ago
I always had a good experience with Phabricator, especially its customization/dashboards.

Wikimedia still uses it[1].

[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/

1 comments

It's a shame that Wikimedia couldn't donate money to Phabricator for it to stay alive, considering it raised ~$30mil in 2019.
Wikimedia Foundation has sponsored Phabricator development, e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/9/sponsore...

My impression is that the developers (or perhaps the remaining single developer, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) has lost interest in maintaining it, rather than been unable to continue.

Wikimedia has been maintaining a phabricator fork for years and have sponsored upstream with monetary contributions on more than one occasion.

It doesn’t seem like there is much interest in finding ways to keep phacility alive.

Note: I work on phabricator at Wikimedia. My opinions do not necessarily match those of the foundation and I’m speaking from personal experience not from any position of authority.

Do you already know whether wikimedia will continue to maintain its fork, or plan to move away?
No decision has been made. I'm attempting to make a case for maintaining it.