Phabricator

WORKFLOW		Description
Workflow columns	Backlog => In Progress	There is a third column Fixed that can be shown, it's nice to move Resolved items there on occasion to clean up the board.
Create a task	| Click dropdown on Backlog, select Create Task.	Or you can click the large + in the top-right toolbar, select Create Task, and assign the correct Project in the tags box.
Start a task	| Drag it from Backlog to In Progress.	Drop above an existing task so the priority will be automatically set. If this is not possible, you need to manually change Priority to High so that the CI dashboard shows the task.
Finish a task	| Change Status to Resolved.	This will remove the task from the board if you are only showing Open statuses. You can drag the task from In Progress to Fixed; this has no real effect on the task, but will keep your board better organized. This can be done in bulk, later. NOTE that the CI dashboard doesn't show Resolved tasks.

Tips

If you are viewing a board by priority, and drag, the dropped task will have its priority automatically adjusted to fit in drag zone. This works great if you can drag a new item from Backlog to a spot above an existing In Progress item. I changed the default task priority from "Needs Triage" (90) to "Normal" (50) to make my flow simpler. I don't need someone else to set the initial priority. Natural and By-priority sorting BOTH maintain their specific orders. Fucking weird. NEVER USE NATURAL. Ever. You have to set sort by priority and save as default for new boards. Wikipedia is done with Phabricator and is a great resource, for example their project management guidelines.

Maintenance
Stop phabricator (I usually ignore this step) Update code m@bitpost cd development/phabricator/libphutil && git pull m@bitpost cd ../arcanist && git pull m@bitpost cd ../phabricator && git pull Upgrade the mysql schema m@bitpost cd development/phabricator/phabricator bin/storage upgrade Restart phabricator # restart apache m@bitpost cd development/phabricator/phabricator bin/phd start

Install

Installing Phabricator is as simple as any other LAMP installation. We grabbed the three primary git repos, here: m@bitpost cd development/phabricator git clone https://github.com/phacility/libphutil.git git clone https://github.com/phacility/arcanist.git git clone https://github.com/phacility/phabricator.git Then set up an alias and directory in apache. Then a mysql user + db. Browse to the url to finish. Easy peasy.

API

The Phabricator API can be used to extract a query of tasks. You need to get a (permanent) auth certificate from arcanist: m@bitpost cd development/phabricator/arcanist bin/arc set-config default https://thedigitalage.org/ emacs .arcconfig # and set phabricator.uri to the same bin/arc install-certificate That will tell you to browse here. You'll get an "API Token" once you log in, eg cli-5sdfksomkhgvasdlfkwfelk or whatever (NOT that one). Paste API Token from that page: cli-5fxsvztkshgvtc7ssdf Writing ~/.arcrc... SUCCESS! API Token installed. It then creates ~/.arcrc with the token, which is used by subsequent arc calls, like this: Now you can use that in the API calls to authenticate, like this: curl https://tdigitalage.org/api/maniphest.query -d api.token=cli-5fxsvztksdfsomkhgvczjtcdts Pretty easy to use once you have the initial bullshit done. It certainly isn't secure though. bitpost.com uses the API to get a list of tasks. Generally, it's a really really bad setup though, as anyone can sniff out that auth token. Use ssl, for sure: https://bitpost.com. Maybe I should actually disable non-SSL bitpost.com... Actually the only viable solution is to do it server-side. Geesh. See bitpost.com/ci.php code for details. View active tokens here: https://thedigitalage.org/settings/panel/apitokens/