Harbourmaster is still not building diffs

[Matthew Pickering]

Hello,

It has been two months since this email. Could we please talk about
reverting to the old phabricator installation to get this working
again?

Matt

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
> Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Since a couple of months ago, harbourmaster no longer builds diffs.
>> This is quite a large barrier to entry for new contributors as running
>> ./validate takes a long time.
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> Indeed it has been a very long time since Harbormaster has built diffs.
>
> The story is this: in the past our Harbormaster infrastructure has
> been rather brittle due to its reliance on `arc` to apply differentials.
> With recently work in Phabricator this fragility can now be addressed,
> but at the cost of reworking some of our existing build infrastructure.
> Moreover, the new Harbormaster story seems to not have been designed
> with a public project such as ours in mind, so there are a few security
> issues which need to be worked out (namely it requires a git repository
> to which all Phab users can push commits).
>
> Getting to this point has unfortunately taken significantly longer than
> expected to get to this point and it's still not entirely clear how the
> new Harbormaster roll-out will work. At this point I suspect we ought to
> just roll back to the previous Harbormaster automation script unless there
> is a clear path forward with the new infrastructure.
>
> Austin, what do you think? Can we set a concrete timeline for bringing
> Harbormaster back up?
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben