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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 codereflection »

imperialWicket wrote: post #37
vyrotek wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I think one of the big issues with JIRA is that it's configurable enough to be a project management tool. It's a really great issue tracker (IMO), and I think when you aim to use it as more than that (involve proper releases, milestones, scheduling/time-tracking, etc.), all of a sudden you get into the areas where the configuration and education issues that you mentioned become apparent. Project management software i…

Re: JIRA. At work we've been using Jira for several years. While it's very flexible, it does come with a certain level of complexity that makes doing things like simple Kanban heavier than it should/needs to be. I have a billion opinions about JIRA, and a love/hate relationship with it.

Github issues - bare bone basics, but I hear they're working on improving it. You cannot currently run something like a Kanban board off of GH issues without outside assistance.

For simplicity, boards like Trello and AgileZen are, IMHO, in the lead.

I have a billion opinions about JIRA in general, but I doubt anyone is interested besides Atlassian. ;)

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by wdewind »

vyrotek wrote: post #32
sergiotapia wrote: post #20

If you're wondering how they can offer free private repositories (awesome!), it's probably because they also offer a ton of other tightly integrated services such as Crucible, JIRA, etc. JIRA is pretty sweet to keep things in order.

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.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by vyrotek »

georgemcbay wrote: post #40
vyrotek wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Heh, I did use Rally for a little bit at one company. Not long enough to form much of an opinion though. It was mostly a glorified bug tracker at that job. Some managers tried to actually enter the "stories" and "milestones".

One system that I'm curious to try is called AtTask[0]. They're located here in Utah (just down the street from me!) and have quite the lineup of large customers. I don't personally know anyone who uses them though.

[0] http://www.AtTask.com

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by Ingaz »

vyrotek wrote: post #32
sergiotapia wrote: post #20

If you're wondering how they can offer free private repositories (awesome!), it's probably because they also offer a ton of other tightly integrated services such as Crucible, JIRA, etc. JIRA is pretty sweet to keep things in order.

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)

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by jlgreco »

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 feel like I am taking crazy pills whenever somebody says that mercurial is simpler than git. Mercurial's per-file revlog and structured .hg/store/data is way weirder / more complex than git's SHA-addressed DAG with minimal/orthogonal object types. The only real blemish on git is that lightweight tags should not exist.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by kleiba »

RivieraKid wrote: post #35
RexM wrote: post #3

I recently stopped paying $12/month for github and moved all my private repositories to bitbucket. Since it's just me working on the repositories, it's totally free.

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?

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by latj »

RexM wrote: post #3

I recently stopped paying $12/month for github and moved all my private repositories to bitbucket. Since it's just me working on the repositories, it's totally free.

I really like bitbucket. The other day I actually looked at their pricing plans to see if their was a small plan I could upgrade to for additional features. I cant really even think of new features I need; And, the size of the free plan is good enough for me. I just really like the service. Weird.
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