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Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by wilmoore »

LordIllidan wrote: post #148
jd wrote: post #116

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If you consider $7 (or $12) a month a lot of money for software then you're probably not in the target audience for any (SaaS) software product. A lot of people are willing to pay some money for a SaaS product even when there are free alternatives. I can't think of any piece of software I use regularly that doesn't cross the "worth at least $7 bucks" boundary.

But it's not just $7. We are a small consulting company, with a lot of git repositories. Our total costs would be more in the range of $50 a month. That's what I am getting at. $7 a month is not all that expensive, you're right - but I am only getting 5 private repositories for that $7 a month. It just doesn't make sense to use github for private work when you have a lot of repositories.

If you have each client take on the $ burden, then you don't have this problem. You've may have convinced yourself that by absorbing the cost, you are doing your client a great service.

In fact, you are putting more burden on yourself for little value. It takes 15 minutes to walk the client through how to pay for and manage a github organization. I do it with all of my clients. It is an opportunity to teach/coach and give them a sense of ownership which is how it should be.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by wilmoore »

LordIllidan wrote: post #149
nbaksalyar wrote: post #122

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How much repositories do you have? I think Github's plans are comparable to Bitbucket - it's just the starting tier is a bit more pricey - and, honestly, $7 or $12/mo doesn't make that much difference.

Over 20, and rapidly increasing - we create a repo for each new project. (consultancy) Sure these projects are not too big, and the team isn't too big either, but if hosted with Github, we'd be looking at soaring costs per month, or join repos together.

This shouldn't be a problem...see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633886

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by yosoyzenitram »

notatoad wrote: post #27
bryanh wrote: post #8

For a while I was a bit worried that GitHub had just ran away with the prize and no one else was bothering. It is pretty obvious that Google isn't interested in improving Google Code and that Sourceforge hasn't aged a day (that's not really fair, but it feels like it). I think there is still a chance for BitBucket to make a splash, but I think its going to be hard to win anymore. That's fine, 2nd place makes a lot of…

Bitbucket had a pretty easy time of winning my business: free private repositories for small teams is a great way to draw people in.

Even better: if you sign up with a .edu email address (hell, even my university email account works and it's a .es), they upgrade your account to unlimited everything, automatically.

GitHub also does a Educational plan, but it requires manual requests and IIRC they give you a Micro account. So Bitbucket is the default choice for all my shared class projects.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by wilmoore »

Kudos wrote: post #39
bvdbijl wrote: post #10

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Well, Github's UI used to be much better, now it's comparable. I do wonder why Bitbucket insists on having "overview" as the standard page to go to when visiting a repository, making Code the default would be a better idea IMHO. Also because more people use Github, more people are likely to start using it so they can fork their favorite projects

You can optionally change the landing page to show the code instead.

There is something to be said for sane defaults. That being said, if the target audience is not developers, then perhaps this is a sane default. I think Bitbucket is pretty good; however, I personally prefer Github as it caters to my tastes much more.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by Pwnguinz »

giulianob wrote: post #104
kkowalczyk wrote: post #100

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If free private repos is the only thing that BitBucket offers over GitHub, then they'll not be in business for long. You cost them money.

Mercurial support is what has helped BitBucket a lot.

I think so, too. I started off with Mercurial (and still prefer it, if I'm working on solo projects) before moving to Git, and by then Bitbucket had already won me over :).

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by saibotd »

sergiotapia wrote: post #89

I wrote a blog post on BitBucket workflow (obviously now it's outdated) and the BitBucket team sent me a free tshirt! http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/1267/entry-3659-visua... I love their website and how you can create free private repos. Good business practice: Unlimited private projects, limited contributers on private projects. Win-win Github is just greedy.

I wrote them an Android client and got a t-shirt as well!

https://bitbucket.org/saibotd/bitbeaker

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by wyck »

notatoad wrote: post #27
bryanh wrote: post #8

For a while I was a bit worried that GitHub had just ran away with the prize and no one else was bothering. It is pretty obvious that Google isn't interested in improving Google Code and that Sourceforge hasn't aged a day (that's not really fair, but it feels like it). I think there is still a chance for BitBucket to make a splash, but I think its going to be hard to win anymore. That's fine, 2nd place makes a lot of…

Bitbucket had a pretty easy time of winning my business: free private repositories for small teams is a great way to draw people in.

It also integrates with several atlassian products, namely Jira which in my opinion beats github's issue tracker into the dust.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by gingerlime »

shepbook wrote: post #174
whichdan wrote: post #171

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Personally I'm more bummed about a 1 collaborator limit on the $7/mo plan.

Where is this "1 collaborator limit"? GitHub has unlimited collaborators on all repositories, private or public.

there used to be a limit to the number of collaborators, but it was lifted a few months ago.
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