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Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by coolsunglasses »

collinvandyck76 wrote: post #122
coolsunglasses wrote: post #76

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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.

That's PHP for you. If you get behavior like this, you should be bugging Priestley.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by rogerbinns »

orangethirty wrote: post #115
rogerbinns wrote: post #94

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They had one I reported Oct 2010, took a while to convince was an issue and they finally fixed a few months after saying they would. The URLS for attachments to private issues in private repos were guessable and publicly accessible if you guessed right (ie no authentication for them). The URLs were like this / / / /attachmentname" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket-assetroot.s3.amazonaws.com/ Obviously a bit tedious to…

Do you put this issue in the same level as the ones github has had?

Issues always happen. It is how they are handled that makes the difference. I've not paid close attention to Github but it appears they react responsibly and quickly.

With my issue it seemed like Bitbucket was a one man shop and I suspect that if I had thrown a fit things would have happened quickly. Jesper was attending pycon and I was fine with addressing it after that, but then it was not promptly attended to afterwards. I have no records of how long it took to fix but it was at least several weeks and may have been months. He did dispute "easily guessable". (The Bitbucket service at the time was also overwhelmed with languishing tickets.)

In my own view, private data being accessible no matter how improbable is always an immediate issue. Issues that initially seem improbable get turned into the probable very quickly by the bad guys who are far more imaginative.

But as I said this was late in 2010. I have no idea if the culture of Bitbucket has changed since then or is better.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by debaserab2 »

kleiba wrote: post #92
mathrawka wrote: post #60

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Offsite data backup of the entire repository for free.

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.)

The older I get, the more precious I find my free time and especially the work I get to put on personal projects. The last thing I want is the risk of that work being wiped out to a very easily avoided mundane issue such as a hard drive failure.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by icelancer »

georgemcbay wrote: post #40
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…

You must have never used Rally? Because while I'm not a huge fan of JIRA (I've only used it in the past year so I don't know what it was like 4 years ago), I've unfortunately seen much worse.

I had the opposite experience. I didn't mind Rally so much at all and hated JIRA.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by fusiongyro »

Ingaz wrote: post #45
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…

In my experience it does not matter which tool is in hands of people who like to "tweak", "twist", "improve", etc. I've seen trac with "features", now I see JIRA with "features". JIRA itself is not bad as issue tracker. (Trac also is not bad)

I think the core concept of Trac is great: automatic linking between issues, wiki pages and revisions. I think it suffers from being slow and difficult to install and configure, as well as using a very uncommon rendering engine that has really stymied theming.

I use JIRA at work, and honestly it's completely fine. It's a goddamn bug tracker. If I can make bugs and close them it's doing its job. Nobody in my organization reads email or tracks their stuff anyway. Sometimes what you have are organizational/management problems, and no amount of wizzy technology is going to fix that.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by davidp »

gustavo_duarte wrote: post #113
outworlder wrote: post #103

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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 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…

When using github, do you keep all of your code in a single repo? If not, have you found any solutions to the "fragmentation" problem where it's hard to get a big picture view due to issues being scattered across different repos? We're looking for solutions for that at my workplace.

I haven't used bitbucket for larger projects yet, any insights there also appreciated.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by cfontes »

greghinch wrote: post #58
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.

Pivotal Tracker has been the most pleasant team task management experience I've had. Have previously used JIRA, Github Issues, Lighthouse, Mantis, and even a shared Google Doc on one project (works surprisingly well for small teams/projects over a short time period).

Agreed Pivotal one is great. I've tried several others and it's the simplest and easiest.

I've been using one called GravityDev at my job and it's nice ( although my team is using it like a PMO tracker despite my best efforts... ) but Pivotal is way simpler and nicer to use.

Though I have only used it in small teams.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by acjohnson55 »

kleiba wrote: post #47
RivieraKid wrote: post #35

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Me too. Public repos github, private bitbucket.

Honest question: why do you need a central repository (SVN style) if it's a private repo? I tend to develop my own projects mostly on two different machines, and the core code management and synchronization doesn't need anything but git itself. Is it so you can use bug trackers etc?

For me this comes up working on collaborative projects with multiple people

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by patrickg »

kleiba wrote: post #47
RivieraKid wrote: post #35

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Me too. Public repos github, private bitbucket.

Honest question: why do you need a central repository (SVN style) if it's a private repo? I tend to develop my own projects mostly on two different machines, and the core code management and synchronization doesn't need anything but git itself. Is it so you can use bug trackers etc?

For me it's easy to deploy the code onto a server which runs the code. I am not the only administrator, but the only software developer. I want the other admins to be able to pull code from that repository (bitbucket offers "read only ssh keys")
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