Changes to our Git infrastructure

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Mon Jan 5 21:14:30 GMT 2015


El Dilluns, 5 de gener de 2015, a les 17:25:48, Thomas Lübking va escriure:
> On Montag, 5. Januar 2015 16:40:52 CEST, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> > Phabricator has an equivalent of rbtools/rbt called Arcanist
> > which is written in PHP.
> 
> So this is actually a concern on a particular tool.
> 
> Leaving aside that Phabricator seems to be owned/maintained by Facebook Inc.
> (what alone may cause significant, though irrational, veto...) this is sth.
> that needed to be accounted.

You should check your facts before calling for an irrational veto :)

http://phabricator.org -> Phabricator's development is lead by Phacility, Inc.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> How much of a problem it is is imo. atm out of scope, but eg. it would be
> less a problem on a fork/pullrequest driven workflow (esp. if a smart git
> hook would eg. support a "PULLTHIS!" keyword) but pretty much a showstopper
> for a RB/gerrit like approach.
> 
> ==> The only relevant question to be answered in the current discussion is
> whether "Just install php!"
> is an acceptable answer to such concerns.
> 
> I'd say "no" (because php /is/ uncommon on client systems...) - but there's
> also phc which *might* cure this particular problem for Phabricator.
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas





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