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There's been no mention of phabricator yet so I thought I'd give it a shout out. It's used by LLVM, FreeBSD, Blender, Wikimedia and others and I love it. It's under very active development and even if it doesn't solve every issue in this letter, by using an open source tool for development you of course have the option to customize it to the needs of your community.

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I'm looking very closely at Phabricator, it looks quite nice.

Phabricator is pretty great overall, love that it's under such active development.

Only gripe is that some parts of it are still highly coupled, so doing something like adding a custom button to the text editor view or writing your own internal application very quickly becomes a huge mess, an effect that is multiplied by the active development and no promise of stable public APIs.

Your experience will be great as long as you don't try and do anything custom, at least for the next year or two.

Phabricator is great! I host it for a couple of my projects. I love it, and it was easy to setup.

Seriously: if you have a web server (or php hosting) anywhere, try out phabricator; it's easy to setup, and you can even point it at a github (or any public git/svn/hg) repository to fiddle around with its features, as hosting the repository inside phabricator is not mandatory.

Another shoutout here to phabricator. I started hosting it internally at the company a year ago and have near 100% adoption from developers for code reviews, additionally using the task/issue tracking for some projects.

Thanks for the suggestion, I didn't knew about it. After a quick read, it seems to be a very interesting alternative.

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