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Hm, who actually uses GitLab or Atlassian? Who else is getting lots of users en masse at this level that they become dependent on the software, if GH goes down,

Hm, who actually uses GitLab or Atlassian? Who else is getting lots of users en masse at this level that they become dependent on the software, if GH goes down, there goes a ton of open source and indie devs who depend on it. Re: enterprise sales, well that's startup life for you. Re: hiring & sales - on a semi tangential noet Honestly, when I visited GH last year and met the very (few) women that worked there (they were all in marketing), (it was the UE4 workshop with like 3 women in attendance, great workshop, but I noticed more and more of the staff at happy hour (their bar) was filled with lots of marketing/sales people -- something I hadn't really experienced other times I visited, usually its more devs than those folks (marketing/sales).

noarchy 11y ago
>Hm, who actually uses GitLab or Atlassian? On this question, at least, I certain have used Atlassian's products. Jira I've used at a good handful of gigs, both contract and full time. And I have enjoyed using Bitbucket when I've had the chance - frankly I even prefer its interface that of Github. But the culture that has grown around Github makes it difficult to ignore if you're involved in open source, or if you want to share code publicly; it is the "go to" spot.
zaphar 11y ago
I don't use Github. I do use Bitbucket. Now my stuff is mostly single dev, for fun projects. I've never particularly liked the Github forced social presence. And I prefer mercurial over git for my vcs.
baudehlo 11y ago
Bitbucket is generally used for two reasons: 1: better Jira integration 2: no limit on number of projects The second reason makes it very popular among small design/dev shops.
- emmelaich 11y ago
  Also private repos for free. That's a big attraction even for individuals and small groups.
StevePerkins 11y ago
My personal "resume" side projects are hosted on GitHub, and my current company mirrors its open source stuff there also. But in neither case is GitHub really being used as a team collaboration tool. Also, we're not paying a dime since all repos are public. It's basically a social networking site. For real work, every company I've worked for in the past 5-10 years has used Atlassian tooling, either cloud-based or self-hosted. I have plenty of complaints about Bitbucket, but Atlassian OWNS the enterprise. And quite frankly, although it lacks GitHub's network effect for open-source projects... a lot of people prefer Bitbucket's interface, tooling, and pricing model for corporate team development (i.e. the situation for most PAYING users).
bsharitt 11y ago
They're pretty big on Atlassian where I work, so we're all Bamboo, Jira, HipChat, and Stash(now hosted BitBucket or something if we were up to date) and if we were to go with a hosted git solution, we'd almost certainly go with BitBucket.

noarchy 11y ago

>Hm, who actually uses GitLab or Atlassian? On this question, at least, I certain have used Atlassian's products. Jira I've used at a good handful of gigs, both contract and full time. And I have enjoyed using Bitbucket when I've had the chance - frankly I even prefer its interface that of Github. But the culture that has grown around Github makes it difficult to ignore if you're involved in open source, or if you want to share code publicly; it is the "go to" spot.

zaphar 11y ago

I don't use Github. I do use Bitbucket. Now my stuff is mostly single dev, for fun projects. I've never particularly liked the Github forced social presence. And I prefer mercurial over git for my vcs.

baudehlo 11y ago

Bitbucket is generally used for two reasons: 1: better Jira integration 2: no limit on number of projects The second reason makes it very popular among small design/dev shops.

emmelaich 11y ago
Also private repos for free. That's a big attraction even for individuals and small groups.

StevePerkins 11y ago

My personal "resume" side projects are hosted on GitHub, and my current company mirrors its open source stuff there also. But in neither case is GitHub really being used as a team collaboration tool. Also, we're not paying a dime since all repos are public. It's basically a social networking site. For real work, every company I've worked for in the past 5-10 years has used Atlassian tooling, either cloud-based or self-hosted. I have plenty of complaints about Bitbucket, but Atlassian OWNS the enterprise. And quite frankly, although it lacks GitHub's network effect for open-source projects... a lot of people prefer Bitbucket's interface, tooling, and pricing model for corporate team development (i.e. the situation for most PAYING users).

bsharitt 11y ago

They're pretty big on Atlassian where I work, so we're all Bamboo, Jira, HipChat, and Stash(now hosted BitBucket or something if we were up to date) and if we were to go with a hosted git solution, we'd almost certainly go with BitBucket.