📖 Developer Satisfaction 2023

The developer satisfaction survey is an annual survey of the Wikimedia developer community.

⚙️ Phabricator edit

🔗 Phabricator use over the past year

We asked survey takers, “In the past year, have you used Wikimedia Phabricator?”

The majority (93.7%) of respondents said they used Phabricator during the past year
5% said they did not use it during the past year
3% were unsure

🔗 Phabricator satisfaction

💬 phab is very cool, do not get the idea to migrate away from it!

42%

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Almost half (42%) of the open comments were either positive or neutral.

Among the most mentioned negative comments were:

Difficulty for newcomers (seen in the tenure breakdown)
Phacility (Phabricator's previous upstream) closing it's doors

🌠 Phabricator's new upstream is called "Phorge"

We asked survey takers, “How satisfied are you with Phabricator?”

Of the survey takers who indicated they had used Phabricator in the past year,

The majority (73%) of respondents said they were satisfied with Phabricator
11% said they were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
14% said they were dissatisfied
2% were unsure

🔗 Phabricator satisfaction (by role)

Of the survey takers who indicated they had used Phabricator in the past year,

All but two role groups had a majority indicate they were satisfied with Phabricator
SRE/infrastructure developers and data engineers had less than half indicate satisfaction with Phabricator (46% each), but both groups had more respondents indicating satisfaction than dissatisfaction.

🔗 Phabricator satisfaction (by tenure)

Of the survey takers who indicated they had used Phabricator in the past year,

All tenure groups had a majority of respondents indicating they were satisfied with Phabricator
Respondents with 0-1 years tenure had the lowest percentage of respondents indicating they were satisfied with Phabricator (52%)

🔗 Phabricator features ranked by priority

We asked survey takers, “How would you rank the importance of the following features of Phabricator? Rank the following from 1 (most important) to 7 (least important).”

Respondents were asked to rank the following features: