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-PROJECT STATUS: CAVEAT EMPTOR
+Phabricator is a open source collection of web applications which make it easier
+to write, review, and share source code. Phabricator was developed at Facebook.
-This is an unstable preview release. You can learn more at http://phabricator.org/
-as well as click around our development install. Developer mailing list at
-https://groups.google.com/group/phabricator-dev and please report issues using
-GitHub.
+This is an early release. It's pretty high-quality and usable, but under
+active development so things may change quickly.
-WHAT IS PHABRICATOR?
-
-Phabricator is a suite of web applications that facilitate software development
-tasks, particularly code review. The primary application in the suite is
-Differential, a code review tool.
-
-Phabricator is highly unstable and has many missing features! These applications
-are being brought over from Facebook's internal toolset, but there's a lot of
-stuff that hasn't made it over yet. Feel free to follow the project but you
-probably shouldn't try to install this yet unless you're extremely ambitious
-or just want to take a look at it.
+You can learn more about the project and find links to documentation and
+resources at: http://phabricator.org/
LICENSE
Phabricator is released under the Apache 2.0 license except as otherwise noted.
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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+@title Roadmap and Status
+@group intro
+
+Insight into the direction and progress of Phabricator. This document was last
+updated **June 29, 2011**.
+
+= Status =
+
+Phabricator is in an early release stage, but quite usable. The project is under
+active development, with around 200 commits from a dozen contributors in the
+last 30 days. Morale is high. A few people are tweeting about it. Someone wrote
+a Wikipedia page. There are a handful of questions on Quora. As far as we know,
+the product has a perfect safety record and has not caused anyone violent
+physical harm.
+
+= Current Development =
+
+Phabricator was released about two months ago. Since then, the focus has been
+on two major areas:
+
+ - **Setup/Install Process**: There was barely any install/setup documentation
+ when we released.
+ - **Pilot Installs**: Facebook was the only install when we released. We
+ wanted to get some early adopters to do installs and give us feedback.
+
+The setup/install process is much better now (there's still room for work, of
+course) and we've gotten a bunch of great feedback from pilot installs (and
+implemented a lot of it).
+
+We've also been focusing a lot on things that are mostly feature buildout:
+
+ - **Maniphest**: I wrote Maniphest in about 20 hours in January to track bugs
+ in Phabricator itself, but it seems to be getting a lot of traction. We're
+ doing a lot of feature buildout for it to make it more full-fledged, more
+ scalable, better integrated, and more useful.
+ - **Maturing New Applications**: Generally, there are a lot of apps
+ which landed recently in Phabricator's history (Maniphest, Projects, Search,
+ and Paste are all less than 6 months old; Herald and Diffusion are about
+ a year old; Differential is about 4 years old) which are missing obvious
+ features. We're fixing this stuff.
+ - **Roles and Permissions**: At Facebook, everyone basically had access to
+ everything but this doesn't work everywhere, especially for open source
+ projects. We're working on making this more granular and auditable.
+ - **Version 1.0**: At some point we probably need to bite the bullet, figure
+ out release management, and cut a release. We should probably build some
+ kind of update notifier before we do this. We can probably put this off for
+ a while longer by just declaring trunk a "kind of okay now release" since
+ the balance of feedback for this model has been positive (we've been able to
+ respond quick to a lot of bug reports and get fixes out in a few hours),
+ it's just off-putting to have the documentation caveating the project's
+ readiness so heavily.
+ - **Performance and Quality**: These are permanent priorities for the project,
+ and we're doing a lot of work to continue improving both.
+
+= Future Development =
+
+Most of the future work involves feature buildout. These are projects we're
+thinking about in a very early stage, and may not happen or may look completely
+different when we implement them:
+
+ - **Activity Streams / News Feed**: It can be difficult to get a sense of
+ project activity right now. Some sort of news feed is the obvious approach,
+ but a lot of the models for this aren't great (Google Code, GitHub,
+ Facebook's internal news feed) and we can probably build a more useful
+ product if we spend some time on it. This dataset has a pretty good mapping
+ to "importance" (a review is more important than a comment) which isn't as
+ strong in social data. Stressing that might get us somewhere useful.
+ - **Projects**: This is a feature which existed with a very basic
+ implementation at Facebook, called "tags". It had a lot of product problems
+ that we're experimenting with addressing by making projects more heavyweight
+ and structured. This feature is really bare-bones right now but seems to
+ be getting some traction in pilot installs and there are a lot of obvious
+ ways to build it out, integrate it, and make it more useful.
+ - **Wiki**: We're probably going to build something like a Wiki since it's
+ the biggest hole in the "complete package" that Phabricator presents. We
+ have a lot of the infrastructure we need to do this quickly and some product
+ ideas which could fix a lot of the problems we had with Facebook's wiki.
+ Biggest blocker here is coming up with a totally awesome name for it.
+ - **Drydock**: Build infrastructure to let Phabricator manage working copies
+ in a scalable way. This is a general piece of infrastructure which enables
+ us to build a lot of features, like: sandcastle (your changes are
+ automatically pushed to a machine and reviewers can access that machine to
+ see them), asynchronous unit testing, watir/selenium testing,
+ Differential-managed merging, and web bisect. This is difficult because
+ "scalable" is very big and it needs to shard easily across a pool of
+ machines. Facebook has a less general version of this which took a long time
+ to get working, but it solved a lot of the hard problems so it may be less
+ daunting for us.
+ - **Testing**: Phabricator has very little test coverage right now and we'd
+ like to improve it. But we also want to make sure we're designing the right
+ test environment and solving problems like database stubbing in a robust
+ way. Facebook ended up with some solutions in this space which had tradeoffs
+ and downsides we'd like to avoid.
+ - **Importers**: Unclear how much time we want to spend here, but providing
+ ways to import from other bug tracking and code review systems could lower
+ the barrier to adoption. But this could also be a massive timesuck.
+ - **Evangelism**: Phabricator had an intentionally quiet launch because the
+ install process wasn't any good and we wanted to get feedback (there were
+ other reasons, as well). It's starting to get some traction and feedback
+ from people have used it seems to be pretty positive. At some point it may
+ be appropriate to spend more time evangelizing it.
+ - **Mission**: Phabricator doesn't have a clear mission statement. Do we want
+ to develop a revenue model around it? Do we want to actively compete with
+ the many other products in this space? For now, improving the software is
+ probably the most important thing we can do to achieve any of these goals,
+ but we don't currently have a clear long-term vision.

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