Phabricator/Help

If you have questions, ask in the Discussion page. We will improve our documentation based on the feedback received.

Link to official docs: https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/

Receiving updates
Phabricator offers several tools to receive the notifications you wish to receive.
 * If you are interested in a single object (a task, a mockup...) just click  in their page. Adding a comment will subscribe you automatically.
 * If you want to follow an entire project, go to the project page and click.
 * Still unhappy? Meet Herald, a powerful tool that will send you notifications based on specific rules (e.g. when a keyword is mentioned).

Projects
In Phabricator projects are tags, tags are projects. There is no tree hierarchy, and there are no subprojects (these might come in a near future, though). Tasks can be assigned to more than one project, and they can also be submitted without assigning them to any project.

When do you need a project?
In general, you need a project...
 * when you have a established team running one or several projects (start here, ask more only when you need more)
 * when you need a workboard (i.e. a sprint)
 * when you need a tag or keyword to organize a type of task that can be part of any project (i.e. "Accessibility")

Requesting a new project
(We are defining this process as we document it)

In order to keep some sanity and consistency, projects can be created only by the Phabricator Project Request team. Anybody can request a new project. Just create a new task specifying the project name and description, which ideally would include a link to the project main/wiki page.

The default access policies for Wikimedia projects and tasks are: If your project requires more restrictive permissions, please explain your reasoning in your request.
 * visible to everybody (no login required)
 * editable by all registered users
 * joinable by all registered users

If you belong to a team that will manage several projects, then the first step is to create a project for your team.