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Designed for software developers, it is an IT project management solution that offers activity revisions, audit source codes, business rules, plotting warns, and more.
Technical teams use Redmine for project management, issue and bug tracking, customer help desk, collaborative file sharing, and repository hosting.
The ability to view code side-by-side; intelligent diff calculation; macros make reviewing fun; simple, intuitive and easy to understand state machine for the commit.
UI is meh, no auto refreshes or auto updates on boards make it frustrating. I have to manually refresh the page in order to see comments on tickets.
Phabricator makes it really easy for you to move from setup to creating tasks and projects. It's secure, open source, multi-functional and honestly just amazing.
Phabricator's interface is incredibly confusing.
Definitely a great experience. I would recommend Phabricator to all my friends who work in different industries.
I have fundamental problems with the way that Phabricator is designed. First, Phabricator is deployed as a Git repository and extensive amounts of manual setup.
Phabricator does a great job surfacing all the information like passing/failing tests. Your git stack is avaialble as part of the diff review, lets you see how the feature is evolving.
It's a bit confusing at first, since the information can be presented in different style, at different places and, therefore, can be interpreted in different ways.
This software is easy to use and very effective for the integration of customers and even staff with my team we all agree that it is a good software.
Some UX elements are very annoying (you click on a link, it opens in the same window ?!, drag and drop in non-existant, etc.).
What I love best about Redmine is the ease of using it, nothing feels too complicated.
It's a little feature-lacking compared to some of the other platforms that do the same thing. I definitely find myself frustrated by the search feature for instance.
Very good discussion groups and good community for issues and new ideas. Pretty cheap developers for development and customizations.
And even then, we were making a lots of mistakes and couldn't find the data we wanted quickly. Redmine does have lots of features but most of them are half-baked.
It’s great for project management and tracking progress while being able to hold team memebrs culpable. It’s fairly easy to use once you understand the hierarchical aspect and how to customize issues.
It is very confusing and the presentation is not good. You need reports too, although new ones can be created using the API.
Justin: Hi. I'm Justin, DevOps engineer, and I give Phabricator a two out of five. For more reviews like this click below. At the time, we looked to GitLab and a couple of similar products and considering Phabricator, as well. We ultimately decided on Phabricator because it had the features we wanted at a price tag that we could afford. We mainly chose Phabricator because of its Mercurial integrations. We use the Mercurial version control system at my company and not a lot of other companies supported it. That plus the price tag, plus some additional capabilities around code review, gave us what we were looking for. Getting started with Phabricator is definitely not an easy process. The only documentation they have is their official documentation, which is a little bit spotty. Phabricator is installed by cloning to Git Repository. There are no system packages or anything like that. It was a little surprising because packages like GitLab, which are considerably bigger, have everything consolidated into a single package. After the repository is installed, you need to manually install, configure a variety of different services. It took quite a while, and it was a very difficult process to finish. If you're thinking about getting Phabricator, be aware of the company that develops it, Phacility, is largely a one-man operation. While Evan Prieslty is definitely a very capable developer and Evan Priestly's been able to make, I would not personally interest my company's productivity to something that's backed by more or less a single person. Consider it, too, that the overall trajectory of Phabricator is geared more toward paying customers. If you're not paying for their support, you are not going to get any feature requests or support of any sort.
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