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Hound vs Phabricator: What are the differences?
Hound: A hosted service that comments on Ruby style guide violations in your GitHub pull requests. Take care of pesky code reviews with a trusty Hound. Hound reviews GitHub pull requests for style guide violations; Phabricator: Open Source, Software Development Platform. Phabricator is a collection of open source web applications that help software companies build better software.
Hound and Phabricator belong to "Code Review" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Hound are:
- Open source
- Free for public repos
- Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests for style guide violations
On the other hand, Phabricator provides the following key features:
- reviewing code before it hits master
- auditing code after it hits master
- hosting Git/Hg/SVN repositories
"Comments on style so I don't have to" is the primary reason why developers consider Hound over the competitors, whereas "Open Source" was stated as the key factor in picking Phabricator.
Hound is an open source tool with 1.72K GitHub stars and 393 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Phabricator has a broader approval, being mentioned in 52 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Hound, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Hound
- Comments on style so I don't have to4
- Easy configuration3
- Fast3
- Free for OSS2
- Inline comments2
Pros of Phabricator
- Open Source33
- Code Review29
- Supports Git/Hg/SVN25
- Bug Tracking18
- Audit Source Code17
- Unlimited Repo Support11
- Software Engineering Platform10
- Super fast task creation10
- Flexible Project Management9
- Project Management8
- Self hosted5
- Building Better Software4
- Best Integration with Gitlab2
- Complete set for collaborating on software development2
- Powerful, Complete, Fast, Reliable and Open Source1
- Straightforward code review process1
- Workflow1
- Very effective system, does all PM & code org needed1
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