List of **reasons to migrate from Phabricator to Phorge**, shared to you from the Phorge community that forked Phabricator.
To be honest this just shows some core differences, than it's up to you to decide.
NOTE: In short: we love Phabricator and so we will continue to work on Phorge for the reasons expressed here ✨
NOTE: To avoid confusions this page says "Phorge" to talk about our fork, and "Phabricator" as [[ https://secure.phabricator.com/ | upstream Phabricator ]].
== 0. Unique Features of Phorge ==
Some big interesting stuff that it's //more// supported in Phorge:
* PHP 8.1 - while this is not officially supported... Phorge has great more support!
* plus, enjoy the [[ changelog/ ]] of Phorge, full of unique features and fixes
== 1. Project Directions ==
In Phorge, Evan Priestley is still our spiritual beacon that illuminates our hearts but this person is not the Phorge project leader. So, in Phorge, directions are practically decided by your good proposals. So, you are practically welcome in joining the website of Phorge, ask questions, share ideas, propose patches (keeping backward compatibility, etc.) and probably they will be approved by somebody and included in Phorge! ✨
In Phabricator, Evan Priestley is the total leader maximum deciding directions. Note that this was probably the primary job of Evan, so we understand that Evan was not so happy to freely accept whatever community proposal, or invest time in onboarding new people in the website [[ https://secure.phabricator.com/ | secure.phabricator.com ]].
== 2. Openness to Newcomers ==
In Phorge, anyone can:
- register in this website (click on the Login button above and register yourself)
- be able to ask Questions (in [[ /ponder/ | Ponder ]])
- then, if you are also marked as #trusted_contributors you can:
- be able to create Tasks (in [[ /maniphest/query/open/ | Maniphest ]]) of from a Workboard like #Phorge or #maniphest etc.
- join the Chat
- send Code Contributions (using Differentials, etc.)
- do more awesome things
In Phorge, the openness on the above things can slightly change in the future just for anti-spam reasons, and not for political reasons. In Phorge, you will always be able to join Phorge if you are a human being //and// if you have not destructive/polemic goals.
In Phabricator, it's not possible to join the official community forum to discuss changes, since it was switched off in 2022. Full stop. Also, you cannot register in secure.phabricator.com since lot of years. So, for newcomers it is probably just not possible to contribute to Phabricator.
== 3. Openess to Contributions ==
In Phorge, it's much easier to propose a change than in Phabricator. Believe me or not, but a completely external newcomer in 2023 was able in 20 days to propose 15 patches and most of them were accepted in Phorge in few days. Also, as a proof of that, Phorge is now proactively importing changes from Wikimedia (that Wikimedia has not proposed in Phabricator - see T15081). So, if you would like to Contribute, can just explore the fantastic [[ /book/contrib/ | Phorge Contribution Guide ]]. You can also explore how to do a [[ /book/contrib/article/contributing_code/ | Code Contribution in Phorge]].
In Phabricator, your code contributions are no longer accepted. Full stop (https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabcontrib/article/contributing_code/). But also historically, in Phabricator was honestly difficult to propose a patch since, again, that was the work of Evan, and Evan was strongly encouraging to hold your own fork, versus pushing upstream changes. Just as an example of it: this is why - years ago - Wikimedia hackers decided to just keep their local fork instead of proposing their patches to Phabricator.
== 4. Future of the Platform ==
In Phorge, there is a nice General Vision to agree to have a stable and healthy future of the platform and the community. Feel free to read it and also Firm it if you agree:
* {L1}
In Phabricator, if you are a customer of Phacility probably your future will continue to be stable and nice. If you are Evan, probably your future is also stable and nice. If you are an external community member, probably your future is just random and read-only.
== What to do now? ==
Now you can upgrade your Phabricator→Phorge. Here our fantastic manual:
[[ installation_and_setup/update_from_phabricator ]]
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