We use Bitbucket (for over 4 years now) and in general like it mainly for its pricing model. However I have the (generally unfounded) fear that it will become bloated and slow like several other Atlassian products. I have really grown to dislike Jira but I will save that complaint for some other time. The Bitbucket UI has improved over time but my real annoyance is the " Recent Activity " list is not wide enough and…
Do you really want to switch to Apache Groovy? Bash is pretty standard for scripting *nix whereas noone knows what the standard is for scripting the JVM?