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Write a "Contributor Onboarding" document
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Onboarding @jcox has mostly been relatively smooth, but there's some setup stuff that we don't really have written down anywhere and which isn't obvious since it only comes up once a year:

  • Developers should enable developer mode (phabricator.developer-mode). DarkConsole and such have docs, but this doesn't. This improves resource handling and stack traces.
  • Developers should enable prototypes (phabricator.show-prototypes). A bunch of applications won't be installed otherwise.
  • Location of the webserver error log.
  • Using phlog(), throw, print_r, var_dump() (and maybe XDebug) to debug.
  • arc liberate / bin/celerity map, although these have reasonable hints.
  • Modifying VirtualHosts for Phame/Phurl short domains.