Ask HN: Why hasn't anyone made a mobile app for Phabricator?

2 pointsby ddxvvor 10 Jahren7 comments

Recently we switched to Phabricator, and I can't wrap my brain around how such a sophisticated tool, has no way to check in via Android/iOS apps.

edit, thanks marvel_boy for asking for some more info:

Short Description: Phabricator is an open-source software development platform. In Wikimedia, Phabricator is used for project management, software bug reporting and feature requests (see How to report a bug), and in the future also for code review in an integrated fashion. Link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator

Here is a link to Wikimedia's Phabricator in action: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/

4 comments

djtidevor 10 Jahren

Phabricator is built by 2 people (I am the designer half of the team) so bandwidth for a mobile app is essentially nill. It is designed & built fully responsive though, and light on the wire. You should be able to use the web version on your phone with no issues.

ddxvvor 10 Jahren

Well, you guys have made a product my team loves. I will look into making a simple android widget for my company this week based on phabricator's mobile webpage. High likelyhood that I'll be thwarted by my lack of Java skills, but if not I will definitely let you know how it goes. Thanks for all your work.

marvel_boyvor 10 Jahren

What is Phabricator? Any link?

ddxvvor 10 Jahren

Thanks marvel_boy. As I learned this week, it is a software project management tool.

Short Description: Phabricator is an open-source software development platform. In Wikimedia, Phabricator is used for project management, software bug reporting and feature requests (see How to report a bug), and in the future also for code review in an integrated fashion. Link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator

Here is a link to Wikimedia's Phabricator in action: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/

alex_hitchinsvor 10 Jahren

This looks like a very nimble Jira/Confluence replacement (of sorts). Has anyone got any experience moving from the Atlassian products to Phabricator? I'd be interested to hear how you found the migration and what the gotchas are.

tiredwiredvor 10 Jahren

How much are you willing to pay for a Phabricator app?

ddxvvor 10 Jahren

Actually, I was thinking of making it myself to learn more about mobile apps as it's been awhile since I made my first and only.

Though, as I looked into Phabricator I realized it was very extensive, and I was surprised and very curious why a mobile app didn't exist. I thought maybe there was a reason I didn't understand yet.