[efnysien]

First used phabricator as an intern, and later brought the toolset for class projects (Compilers and now thesis-work). It's been massively helpful, and like others have commented, their IRC is active and helpful.

FWIW, a friend who'd never used the tool got up and running (after a kind of messy install) in less than 2 hrs. For any other undergrads out there doing any serious project work with people, this is worth your time. I mostly use it as a personal task-manager (asana would do the job), but I like how good its command line tools are, and how I can do just about anything from terminal.