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This article is low-content and reads like a paid shill for Bitbucket. Here's a summary if you haven't clicked yet: * We think GitHub is expensive * We use JI

by omni 11y ago

This article is low-content and reads like a paid shill for Bitbucket. Here's a summary if you haven't clicked yet: * We think GitHub is expensive * We use JIRA (no real justification given) * Bitbucket has a better price for our use case and integrates better with JIRA

jevgeni 11y ago
This is a short personal opinion. It is debatable how front page worthy it is, but calling it a paid shill is silly. After all, this isn't Russia Today's comment section.
- baldfat 11y ago
  I personally prefer bitbucket for all my personal repos. I get unlimited private repos for free.
  - hardwaresofton 11y ago
    This. While I don't know if they would do it if they were as popular as they want to be (maybe bitbucket desperately wants to charge but don't feel like they could compete if they did), I personally use bitbucket for this very reason. Sometimes I also use bitbucket just to get away from hosting every single thing in Github. Nothing against Github (I use it quite a bit, and from what I've read their culture and ethics are good if not great), but regardless of their intentions, I'd rather not have one company monopolize mindshare
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xvolter 11y ago
Agreed. This immediately shot up to the top too, suggests to me their team might have heightened it. Either way, if you want to go for cheap, use Gitlab.com which is also free to use, but can host it yourself so can be far more secure and private, and has great integration with Jira as well. Along with a ton of other issue trackers, since I personally don't like Jira.
- snockerton 11y ago
  +1 for GitLab - a platform that actually feels like a hacker's tool. Not to mention they have an open source edition (CE), unlike GitHub -or- BitBucket.
  - xvolter 11y ago
    Gitlab EE (Enterprise Edition) is also open source, you can grab it and use it without an enterprise license if you really want, it's more of a trust-based system. Which I support 100%. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee
eliribble 11y ago
Original author here. I wasn't paid for the article. I wrote it primarily because many people know Github and I've been quite happy with Bitbucket as a replacement. I had a good experience for our use case and felt like sharing that. You raise an interesting point about justifying my choice of Jira. Since the topic was comparing SCMs justifying Jira seemed tangential. Perhaps I will explain in another post what our justifications are for using Jira.

by omni 11y ago

jevgeni 11y ago

This is a short personal opinion. It is debatable how front page worthy it is, but calling it a paid shill is silly. After all, this isn't Russia Today's comment section.

baldfat 11y ago
I personally prefer bitbucket for all my personal repos. I get unlimited private repos for free.
- hardwaresofton 11y ago
  This. While I don't know if they would do it if they were as popular as they want to be (maybe bitbucket desperately wants to charge but don't feel like they could compete if they did), I personally use bitbucket for this very reason. Sometimes I also use bitbucket just to get away from hosting every single thing in Github. Nothing against Github (I use it quite a bit, and from what I've read their culture and ethics are good if not great), but regardless of their intentions, I'd rather not have one company monopolize mindshare
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xvolter 11y ago

Agreed. This immediately shot up to the top too, suggests to me their team might have heightened it. Either way, if you want to go for cheap, use Gitlab.com which is also free to use, but can host it yourself so can be far more secure and private, and has great integration with Jira as well. Along with a ton of other issue trackers, since I personally don't like Jira.

snockerton 11y ago
+1 for GitLab - a platform that actually feels like a hacker's tool. Not to mention they have an open source edition (CE), unlike GitHub -or- BitBucket.
- xvolter 11y ago
  Gitlab EE (Enterprise Edition) is also open source, you can grab it and use it without an enterprise license if you really want, it's more of a trust-based system. Which I support 100%. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee

eliribble 11y ago

Original author here. I wasn't paid for the article. I wrote it primarily because many people know Github and I've been quite happy with Bitbucket as a replacement. I had a good experience for our use case and felt like sharing that. You raise an interesting point about justifying my choice of Jira. Since the topic was comparing SCMs justifying Jira seemed tangential. Perhaps I will explain in another post what our justifications are for using Jira.