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Bitbucket passes one million users

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Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by gustavo_duarte »

6ren wrote: post #118
gustavo_duarte wrote: post #113

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I respectfully disagree regarding Fogbugz vs. GitHub issues. I used FogBugz for about 6 years in a major client project (a successful SaaS product). We used FogCreek's hosted solution and were pretty heavy users: different projects, milestones, feature requests, user communication, etc. However, we were unhappy with FogBugz. The UI always felt clunky and slow to navigate, it felt like we were battling FB rather than…

Just a nit on GH issues: email vs web don't mix. Email formatting isn't rendered properly online (line breaks, "> " quoting) - and you can't edit an issue/comment online if you originally mailed it in (it's type is email, and that's it). Editing online is incredibly slow on small machines (zenmode is much faster, but you can't preview).

Agreed, email is clunky.

Have you used the GitHub mobile apps though? I find it's a decent way to keep tabs on issues, add comments, etc., when one is away from a bigger computer. I see that as a big plus for GH.

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Post by collinvandyck76 »

coolsunglasses wrote: post #76
wdewind wrote: post #42

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We use JIRA at Etsy (although we use Github for code reviews, not crucible). It is certainly frustrating, but I tend to think it's a "the worst except the rest" situation. Do you have something you like significantly better? I've experimented with stuff like trello, basecamp etc. and still haven't found them significantly better.

Phabricator is a nice fully integrated alterative.

My team has been using phabricator for a while now and it is a really wonderful tool for doing code reviews and repository browsing and linking. It's also has a nice paste app.

The only downside is that occasionally nagios will squawk about no more free memory on the box and we'll see some of the PHP processing using upwards of 5GB RAM.

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Post by kleiba »

uniclaude wrote: post #119
kleiba wrote: post #92

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I see. I suppose that makes sense if you mostly work on a single machine. (Since I usually oscillate between two machines I never think about backing up in addition to the normal work-flow.)

Even if you work on several machines, having not to worry about whether they are turned on / are accessible from wherever you are is a huge plus. People tend to have laptops nowadays, which you don't necessarily think about as always on computers.

Well, mine is always on. :-)

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by bos »

kibibu wrote: post #82
prima-facie wrote: post #21

Mercurial is a better tool than Git in almost every aspect. It's easy to learn and gets out of your way. I chose it over git a few years ago and sticked with it ever since and used Bitbucket to host most of my stuff. You don't get the community that Github has, but the hosting is great.

I use and enjoy using Mercurial for most of my projects. But it has nothing , NOTHING as good as git rebase -i

"hg histedit" is almost exactly the same as "git rebase -i", right down to the UI.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by kleiba »

OGC wrote: post #105
kleiba wrote: post #92

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I see. I suppose that makes sense if you mostly work on a single machine. (Since I usually oscillate between two machines I never think about backing up in addition to the normal work-flow.)

You should think about that in case your house burns down.

Frankly, I think that's exactly what I'm never worried about - especially not for my personal projects.

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Post by yawaramin »

ngoldbaum wrote: post #67
VMG wrote: post #22

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> Mercurial is a better tool than Git in almost every aspect. No need to proclaim personal tastes as absolute truths around here. In any case, Bitbucket has complete git support.

Right, but github only allows, well, git repositories. If they added hg support I'd have a strong reason to think about putting repositories on my github account.

Adding hg support would be kinda awkward given their name.

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Post by bobbyi_settv »

wdewind wrote: post #42
vyrotek wrote: post #32

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JIRA is pretty sweet to keep things in order. Really? I use and love BitBucket, but the last 2 places I worked at used JIRA and it was the worst project management tool I've ever used. I'm sure someone will say they didn't configure it right or educate the devs or something. Seriously though, it was pushed down from upper management in both cases and it was a terrible experience. Then they thought Greenhopper would f…

We use JIRA at Etsy (although we use Github for code reviews, not crucible). It is certainly frustrating, but I tend to think it's a "the worst except the rest" situation. Do you have something you like significantly better? I've experimented with stuff like trello, basecamp etc. and still haven't found them significantly better.

Pivotal Tracker is significantly better. We switched to Jira about six months ago and it has been very painful. The worst parts of my week are when I have to interact with Jira. Our sprint planning meetings used to be pleasant using Tracker because it helps guide things toward an effective agile workflow while mostly staying out of the way. Now that we use Jira, half of our planning meetings are spent fighting with the software rather than actually planning.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by yawaramin »

I've been a Bitbucket member since 2009 and have an open source project (since 2010) as well as a few private repos. I've had users signing up simply to open issues and communicate with me. Works like a charm.

They've always been top-notch but with git support and Atlassian's rising profile in the git community they're really starting to gain traction. I hope they keep up the good work.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by imperialWicket »

outworlder wrote: post #103
imperialWicket wrote: post #10

Github has the social aspects nailed down, but for small teams or personal projects, I don't hesitate to use bitbucket. Particularly now that you can use HipChat for free on small teams, hosting with bitbucket and managing your project exclusively through Atlassian is fantastic. I like issue management in bitbucket much more than github, as well (personal opinion, no great foundation here).

For personal projects or two person projects, Kiln is available for free. For larger teams, one of the advantages is that you can use Mercurial and Git interchangeably in the same project. Also, with the startup edition you get Fogbugz, which is pretty decent - and certainly lightyears ahead of github issues. Note: I have no relationship with FogCreek, but I've added a few personal projects there and so far I have no…

I think Kiln's wrappers for supporting Git and Mercurial on the same project are impressive, but I can't see a good business case for allowing that to happen within your organization.

Personally, the Fogbugz flow and implementation is way too reminiscent of Bugzilla for me (a bug solution that I think is tolerable at best), but I think that's mostly due to my limited experience with the tool.

Nonetheless, FogCreek's tools definitely deserve a mention in the context of this discussions.

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