[Reviewers] FYI: Phabricator experiment

[Augie Fackler]

> On Jun 15, 2017, at 13:23, Kevin Bullock <kbullock at ringworld.org> wrote:
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>> On Jun 15, 2017, at 11:39, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:
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>> Howdy reviewers (again, since we'd forgotten to add indygreg and smf to the list, sorry about the double-send),
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>> Aaron and Durham (cc'd) have expressed a feeling that we'd get a lot more reviewer contribution from Facebook employees if we had an option other than review-by-email. I'm more than a little dubious that it'll make a big difference, but in the name of collecting data we agreed to set up a Phabricator instance and try that out, at least for changes that don't require multiple patches[0]. Keeping an eye on it will, of course, be optional, but I'd like it if everyone at least kept an eye out for it when it's ready and gave it a fair examination, so that in a month or two we can decide if the experiment should be continued.
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> I'm starting the work to set this up on m-s.o, will keep y'all posted as I get it stood up.
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> I'm wondering how this will interact with our normal review flow as we're experimenting with it. Namely, how will patches get submitted into Phabricator? Does reviewing thru Phabricator mean they _won't_ end up on the list, or are we thinking of having Phabricator ingest patches from the list the way Patchwork does? For us to give it a proper shot, it seems like we need to work out some details so that we're all (or some subset of us are) using it the same way.

I was figuring we'd have Phabricator send emails to the list, but if you wanted to use the experimental Phabricator workflow, you'd have to submit /to Phabricator/. Nobody is building the tool I really want, which would parse emails and try to interpret comments-on-email-diffs and plunk them back into a web-based tool. A man can dream....

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> We've talked before about integrating a web-based review tool into our workflow, it'll be interesting to see how Phabricator fits the bill.
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> Kevin R. Bullock
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