Phabricator, a software fabricator

Phabricator is a suite of web applications that help software companies communicate about software effectively. It was created at Facebook. Phabricator is also used at many other companies such as Airtime, Asana, Dropbox, deviantART, MemSQL, Path, Quora, and more.

Facebook engineers rave about Phabricator, describing it with glowing terms like "okay" and "mandatory". Experience more uncoerced community interaction on Facebook.

Review Code

Review others' code with Differential, because they can't be trusted.

• Shows code so you can look at it.
• You can reject code if you don't like it.
• Code review is a pretty okay idea.
• Fewer bad things will happen if you do it.
• Example: D212

Track Bugs

You can keep track of all the defects and problems in your awful software with Maniphest.

• Keeps track of bugs.
• You can assign them to people.
• Maybe you could fix them eventually.
• Example: T128

Browse Source

This feature is pretty amazing, you can browse source code on the web with Diffusion. Unnerving.

• Shows commits.
• Has shiny colors.
• Works with Git, Subversion and Mercurial.
• Example: Phabricator Repository

Also Has A Wiki

You can write things down in Phriction, like this example recipe document where I misspelled dessert.

• Write text.
• That text stays there.
• You can read it later.
• You can make text bold.
• Example: March 2012 Changelog

...and More!

There are more applications too! Who knows what you might discover?

Raise the Signal-to-Noise Ratio

As your company scales, keep track of things you care about with features like Herald and Flags.

• Write business rules.
• Everyone loves business rules.
• Keep an eye on those suspicious interns.
• Several different flag colors.

CLI

The Arcanist command line tool gives you CLI access to most of Phabricator's functionality.

• Many cryptic commands.
• ANSI color, where supported.
• Runs on Linux, Mac and Windows.
• Documentation: Arcanist User Guide

API

The Conduit API allows you to write scripts that interact with Phabricator over an HTTP JSON API.

• Is an interface.
• For application programming.

Active Community

Phabricator is under active development.

• Most patches make it better.
• Only some break it.
• Written in PHP, so literally anyone can contribute, even if they have no idea how to program.
• Even babies and dogs can contribute.

Light Hearted, Heavy Duty

The work these tools do isn't the most rewarding part of anyone's job, but it is important. They are serious, heavy-duty tools -- they just try not to make this stuff suck more than it needs to.

• Simple, lightweight workflows.
• Performance is a priority.
• Tools emphasize collaboration, not process.
• Infrastructure is serious, scalable and secure.

Install Phabricator

Now that you've been won over by that compelling assault of amazing, innovative features, see the Installation Guide for instructions on how to download and install Phabricator from GitHub. Note that the current release is under continuous development. Most things should mostly work pretty well most of the time, but we haven't reached the stable harbors of a regular release cycle yet.

Phabricator in Action

Login to the live Phabricator install used to develop Phabricator itself to see it in action: track bugs with Maniphest, review code with Differential, browse commits with Diffusion, and share ducks and nyancats. (While you're poking around, why not contribute patches?)

Help! Get Support!

This software is under continuous development so you might hit some rough spots, but there are lots of ways to get help from the developers and community. Check the sidebar for different ways you can get help and support, report bugs, and learn more about Phabricator.

IRC is a particularly good way to get questions answered, and also a really cool place to hang out. Plus we have an IRC bot which is a special new kind of technology the world had never seen before we invented it. Marvelous!

Project Activity Feed

Documentation

Phabricator is split into three subprojects: Phabricator itself is the web application, Arcanist is the CLI interface, and libphutil is libraries shared between them. While it may initially seem like this is needlessly confusing, you might acclimate to it eventually as it wears you down over a long period of time.

• Phabricator Docs ← All user/install documentation lives here.
• Arcanist Docs ← Mostly technical documentation.
• libphutil Docs ← Mostly treasure maps to lost pirate gold.

Phabricator also uses the Javelin Javascript library.

• Javelin Docs ← This is mostly technical/contributor stuff too.