[donaldguy]

Yo I love phabricator; it's one of my favorite pieces of software, but three things:

1. The title's seeming attribution to Wikimedia as opposed to Facebook (or even Phacility) is like, whatever the opposite of dog whistling is

2. If you want to host your own things, great; do that. Phab is great, gitlab is also pretty neat. If you want someone to manage this stuff for you, Phacility is out there grindin' but they also have like O(10) employees, so don't expect miracles

3. The point of GitHub was always about "social coding"; the concerns about overcentralization aren't unfounded but it's also not like that wasn't straight up the value proposition in th the first place!

If everyone moves off to their own walled gardens, something of value will be lost. So like, again: love phab (it/arc's my favorite code review workflow, I think the conventions it adds on commit messages are really valuable (and btw trace right back to Facebook eng culture), the pretty tight integration of tools is nice, I enjoy its sense of humor), but I think calling it meaningfully a true GitHub alternative, with any consideration of FOSS, is inaccurate

Disclosure: I left a startup using phab (at my urging) and GitHub at the end of March and now work at Microsoft (where my team has some code on VSTS and some on GitHub). I first encountered Phab as an intern at FB in 2011, when epreistly had just left