[Reviewers] Recommending Phabricator

[Gregory Szorc]

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:19 AM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:

> (+Ryan since he's got a contact at Phacility)
>
> > On Feb 8, 2018, at 13:03, Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 09:54:39 -0800, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> >> One of the changes I made was to recommend Phabricator over emailing
> >> patches. I did this because I think Phabricator is more friendly to new
> >> contributors and provides a gateway for new contributors getting more
> >> involved.
> >
> > I hope not advertising Phabricator more until its email interface gets
> fixed.
> > Proper threading and inline-reply are must IMO.
> >
> >> In addition, I think the time has come for more of Mercurial's core
> >> contributors to transition from email to Phabricator.
> >
> > I thought that was a temporary issue of email infrastructure at Google?
> >
> >> As a reviewer, I've noticed I'm biasing to looking at Phabricator first
> >> then falling back to Patchwork if I still want to do reviews.
> Phabricator
> >> is just a more pleasant experience for me as both a reviewer and a
> >> contributor.
> >
> > I do truly the opposite. Ignoring almost all Phabricator emails, and pick
> > random patches, which I would have to review, from Yadda using phabread.
>
> I still check both. I'm quicker at email reviews and find them preferable,
> but I've also made peace with the seeming reality that new contributors are
> significantly more comfortable with phabricator.
>
> I would like it if we could try and get some more improvements figured
> out, but IIRC the email threading thing was a complete nonstarter for them?
> Greg, do you know if Mozilla is likely to care about that?
>

Mozilla still hasn't fully rolled out Phabricator. The instance is live (
https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/), but no significant population
is using it. I imagine that once we start actively using it for Firefox
that people will start caring about things more. However, we don't
currently do review by email. So I'm not sure how much people will care
about email "threading."
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