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by solarkraft 1847 days ago
KDE has been in the process switching away (to Gitlab) for a while.
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Yeah, we already switch to Gitlab for code review. But the task management utility in Phabricator are far superior to Gitlab, so it's a bit complicated to switch to Gitlab for now.

There has been three big reasons why we are trying to switch from phab to Gitlab:

* Upstream wasn't very interested in external contributions or hearing our suggestions

* arcanist was a real pita to use for new contributors. Switching to gitlab really increased the number of occasional contributors.

* Setting up CI with Phabricator to run on Diff (the Phabricator equivalent to merge request) was not easy.

GitLab team member here.

What are biggest task management features from Phabricator you don’t find in GitLab?

Issue dependencies with a graph showing all up- and downstream blocking/blocked issues.