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We unpack how\nPhabricator inspired GitLab to add new features.\n\n\n## Phabricator explained\n\n\nTurning back time a bit, what exactly is Phabricator? Built on the concept\nof web-based applications, Phabricator enables developers to collaborate\nwith code reviews, repository browser, change monitoring, bug tracking and\nwiki. On May 29, 2021, Phacility, the maintainer and sponsor of Phabricator\n[announced\nend-of-life](https://admin.phacility.com/phame/post/view/11/phacility_is_winding_down_operations/)\nand stopped maintaining Phabricator.\n\n\n[GitLab co-founder and CEO, Sid Sijbrandij](/company/team/#sytses) gives\ncredit to Phabricator on\n[HackerNews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27334636):\n\n\n> Phabricator was an inspiration to me when starting GitLab. It is shutting\ndown now. [Many of its features were years ahead of its\ntime](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27334511) and there was a lot of\nhumor in the product. As a tribute to it shall we add Clowcoptarize as a way\nto merge? This would be an [opt in option introduced in GitLab\n14.0](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/332215).\n\n\nIt got me curious: What are these inspirations Sid is referring to? Let's\ndive into GitLab's history together and see what we can learn.\n\n\n_Tip: Features in the [GitLab documentation](https://docs.gitlab.com/) often\nhave a `Version History` box. You can use the issue URLs to dive deeper into\nfeature proposals, discussions, etc._\n\n\n### Review workflows\n\n\nA typical engineering workflow is as follows: The engineering manager\nassigns a new issue as a task to a developer. The developer works in their\npreferred IDE – local in VS Code or in the\n[Gitpod](/blog/teams-gitpod-integration-gitlab-speed-up-development/)\ncloud environment. Changes happen in a new feature branch in Git, which gets\npushed to the remote Git server for collaboration.\n\n\nThe Git branch is not ready yet and stays hidden in a potentially long list\nof branches. To keep better track of their feature branches, developers\ncould copy-paste the branch name or URL into the related issue - which I did\n10 years ago. The concept of a \"diff linked to a task for review\" in\nPhabricator, likewise a \"Git branch with commits linked to Merge Requests\"\nin GitLab was not invented yet.\n\n\nPhabricator inspired GitLab to create a [default\nworkflow](https://secure.phabricator.com/phame/post/view/766/write_review_merge_publish_phabricator_review_workflow/)\nfor reviews. The Phabricator workflow makes the review more dominant and\nsquashes all changes into a single commit after the review is approved.\nThere are upsides and downsides to automatically squashing commits.\nSquashing the commits could mean losing information from review history and\ncreate more discussion. Depending on the application architecture, the\nfrequency of changes, and debugging requirements, this can be a good thing\nor a bad thing. GitLab allows you to choose to [squash\ncommits](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/squash_and_merge.html)\nbefore merging a MR and/or specifying the default project settings around\nsquashing commits.\n\n\nPhabricator treated a MR (or what they call \"diff tasks\") as the single\nsource of truth for tracking changes and the review history. We felt this\nwas a great idea, and replicated the process of a \"diff task\" in Phabricator\nin GitLab MRs. One of the major upsides to GitLab's version is that\ncollaboration and discussion that happened in issues and epics is still\navailable even after the change is merged.\n\n\n#### Draft MR (or \"diff tasks\")\n\n\nMany times when a MR is created in GitLab, the branch requires additional\nwork before it is ready to be merged. Phabricator introduced a [formal\n\"Draft\" / \"Not Yet Ready for Review\"\nstate](https://secure.phabricator.com/T2543) in 2013 for \"diff tasks\", which\nhelped keep track of work in this state. GitLab added [WIP MRs in\n2016](/blog/feature-highlight-wip/), which we then renamed to draft merge\nrequests in 2020. While `WIP` may make sense to some people, acronyms can\nexclude newcomers. We found `Draft` is more recognizable. To avoid\nconfusion, GitLab [deprecated WIP and moved forward with draft merge\nrequests](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/32692).\n\n\n#### Keep history in MRs for future debugging\n\n\nThe commit history in GitLab is enriched with links to the MR and the\ncorresponding Git review history. In case of a production emergency, having\neverything documented allows for faster research and debugging.\n\n\nGitLab stores the MR short URL with `\u003Cnamespace>/\u003Cproject>!1234` in the\nmerge commit message. Check the history of a [demo project for the\nKubernetes\nagent](https://gitlab.com/everyonecancontribute/kubernetes/k8s-agent/-/commits/main/)\nto see how the merge commit is rendered.\n\n\n![GitLab history with MR commit\nlinks](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/phabricator-features-inspired-gitlab/gitlab_history_mr_metadata_link.png)\n\nGitLab commit history includes link to the MR.\n\n{: .note.text-center}\n\n\nThis raw information is stored in the Git repository, whereas the MR itself\nstays in GitLab's database backend. You can verify this by cloning a\nrepository and inspecting the history with this command:\n\n\n```sh\n\n$ git log\n\n```\n\n\n![git log MR\nmetadata](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/phabricator-features-inspired-gitlab/git_log_mr_merge_commit_metadata_link.png)\n\nMR metadata included in output from `git log` command.\n\n{: .note.text-center}\n\n\n### Code coverage in MRs\n\n\nCode coverage reports provide insight into how many lines of the source code\nare covered with unit tests. Reaching 100% test coverage is a developer myth\n- visualizing a decrease or increase can help monitor a trend in code\nquality. Phabricator implemented support for various languages with unit\ntest engines and parsing the output, for example in\n[Golang](https://secure.phabricator.com/D12621).\n\n\nWith many different languages and report output formats, integrating code\ncoverage reports into GitLab MRs was challenging. [GitLab launched the first\niteration of code coverage reports in\n2016](/blog/publish-code-coverage-report-with-gitlab-pages/), which\ngenerated the reports with CI/CD jobs and used GitLab pages to publish the\nHTML reports.\n\n\nIn this first iteration, the test coverage is parsed with a regular\nexpression from the CI/CD job output, specified in the project settings or\nwith the [coverage](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#coverage) keyword\ninside the CI/CD job configuration. We can see this in the job view inside\nthe [MR\nwidget](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/settings.html#add-test-coverage-results-to-a-merge-request)\nand as a coverage badge for the project. See the test coverage history by\nnavigating into `Analytics > Repository`.\n\n\n![Test coverage as project badge in\nGitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/phabricator-features-inspired-gitlab/gitlab_project_badge_test_coverage.png)\n\nThe test coverage badge in a GitLab project.\n\n{: .note.text-center}\n\n\nJUnit XML test reports were introduced as common format specification and\nadded as an [MR widget in\n2018](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/unit_test_reports.html). The test\nreports runs in the background, using CI/CD artifacts to upload the XML\nreports from the runner to the server, where the MR/pipeline view visualizes\nthe coverage reports in a tab.\n\n\nThe generic JUnit integration also helped with customization requests to\nunit tests, updated CLI commands, or changed coverage report outputs to\nparse. GitLab provides [CI/CD template\nexamples](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/examples/)\n\n\nThe missing piece for GitLab was having inline code coverage remarks inside\nMR diffs. It took about five years for [Sid's initial proposal for inline\ncode coverage remarks](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/3708)\nto be implemented. In 2020, inline code coverage remarks were released in\n[GitLab\n13.5](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/test_coverage_visualization.html).\n\n\n![Test Coverage with Rust in\nGitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/phabricator-features-inspired-gitlab/gitlab_mr_diff_inline_test_coverage.png)\n\nHow inline code coverage works in GitLab.\n\n{: .note.text-center}\n\n\nCheck out [this MR to practice verifying the test\ncoverage](https://gitlab.com/everyonecancontribute/dev/rust-code-coverage-llvm/-/merge_requests/1/diffs?view=inline\nvalidating some Rust code). Make sure to select the inline diff view.\n\n\n### Automated workflows and integrated CI\n\n\nPhabricator provides\n[Herald](https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/herald/) as\nan automated task runner and rule engine to listen for changes. Herald can\nalso be used to ensure [protected\nbranches](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/protected_branches.html)\nand [approval\nrules](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/approvals/rules.html#add-multiple-approval-rules)\nto enforce a strong permission model in development workflows. There are\nmore examples in this [HackerNews post from\n2016](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12501025) and somehow, I feel\nlike an explorer seeing many great GitLab features in similar ways. 🦊\n\n\n[GitLab CI/CD pipeline\nschedules](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/schedules.html) remind me\nof the task runner, similarly to\n[webhooks](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/webhooks.html)\nand the [REST API](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/) being instrumented from\nCI/CD jobs. The pipeline schedules are also a great way to periodically\nregenerate caches and rebuild container images for cloud native deployments.\n\n\n[Harbormaster](https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/harbormaster/)\nis Phabricator's integration for CI. It's not built from multiple tools in\nthe [DevOps](/topics/devops/) stack, but is instead fully integrated in the\nproduct.\n\n\nThe first version of GitLab CI was created in [November\n2012](/company/history/). In 2015, a GitLab team member came up with the\nidea of combining SCM with CI and [the all-in-one DevOps platform was\nborn](/blog/gitlab-hero-devops-platform/). Built-in CI/CD\ninspired for more features and fostered a better way to innovate together.\nThe [new pipeline editor](/blog/pipeline-editor-overview/) is\njust one example of a streamlined way to configure CI/CD pipelines in\nGitLab.\n\n\nLet's throwback to 2017 and watch as we demonstrate how to take an idea to\nproduction in GitLab, using GKE:\n\n\n\u003Ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\"\nsrc=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/39chczWRKws\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\nframeborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write;\nencrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003C/iframe>\n\n\n\u003Cbr>\n\n\n### Work boards for issue management\n\n\nWork needs to be organized. Phabricator led the way with a board which\nallowed users to filter tasks and provide a more detailed view into planning\nand project management.\n\n\n![Phabricator work\nboards](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/phabricator-features-inspired-gitlab/phabricator_work_boards.png)\n\nInside Phabricator work boards.\n\n{: .note.text-center}\n\n\nGitLab users will recognize the similar look between Phabricator's work\nboards and GitLab [issue\nboards](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issue_board.html). In GitLab\n14.1, we built on existing epic tracking and labeling to create [Epic\nboards](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/epics/epic_boards.html) to\nkeep teams organized and measure progress.\n\n\nIn Phabricator, users can drag and drop between columns, which automatically\nchanges the work status for a particular task. This feature inspired the\nboards in GitLab to automatically change the labels in a [defined\nworkflow](/blog/4-ways-to-use-gitlab-issue-boards/) by dragging and dropping\nbetween columns. Users can go a level deeper with scoped labels to switch\nbetween workflow states:\n\n\n* `workflow::design`\n\n* `workflow::planning breakdown`\n\n* `workflow::ready for development`\n\n* `workflow::in dev`\n\n* `workflow::verification`\n\n\nThe [GitLab engineering handbook](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/workflow/#basics)\ndocuments the different workflows.\n\n\n![Epic boards in\nGitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/phabricator-features-inspired-gitlab/gitlab_epic_boards.png)\n\nTake a look at the Epic boards in GitLab.\n\n{: .note.text-center}\n\n\n### Put it all together\n\n\nIn Phabricator, a diff task (in GitLab they're MRs) in the \"review\" state is\nlinked to another task specifying the requirements. The UX needs to be clear\nso the relationship between the diffs can be accessed and understood. Unless\nnecessary, the user shouldn't have to navigate manually. The context of the\nchange review defines possible links to labels, states, dependent issues,\ndiff tasks (MRs), and more.\n\n\nGitLab links [related\nissues](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/related_issues.html).\nIf an issue is mentioned in a MR, or vice versa, [GitLab automatically links\nthem](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/crosslinking_issues.html#from-merge-requests).\nThe user also has the option to have the issue close automatically once a\nchange is merged. Read a blog post from 2016 to learn more about [how issues\nand MRs can relate to each other in\nGitLab](/blog/gitlab-tutorial-its-all-connected/).\n\n\n![Linked issues and MRs in\nGitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/phabricator-features-inspired-gitlab/gitlab_linked_issues_mrs.png)\n\nLinked issues and related MRs in GitLab.\n\n{: .note.text-center}\n\n\nUX work is challenging, and we continue to iterate to improve workflows in\nGitLab. For example, in GitLab 13.8, we reduced the number of clicks it\ntakes to [download a CI/CD job artifact from the\nMR](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/37346).\n\n\n\n### Did we miss a feature Phabricator inspired?\n\n\nWhile writing this blog post, my research revealed more gems. 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