Porters Handbook section 4.4

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Wed Oct 11 22:52:50 UTC 2017


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 06:40:20PM -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> What is Phabricator?

A code review system up at http://reviews.FreeBSD.org .

It claims to "provide code reviews, image mocks, voting, and other
tools."  For purposes like this where multiple people have their
blue pencils out, it is a more useable tool than Bugzilla, which is
intended more for "problem reports".  OTOH for small patches there
is an overlap.

These days the documentation people mostly use Phabricator instead
of the Bugzilla instance.

The separation is kind of artificial and still a little controversial.
I personally don't care as long as work gets done :-)

mcl


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