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He probably means in terms of general usability. This is the reason why I don't use bitbucket at all, and I'm happy to give some money to github in exchange for

by me_bx 10y ago

He probably means in terms of general usability. This is the reason why I don't use bitbucket at all, and I'm happy to give some money to github in exchange for their service. Bitbucket's issue tracker is such a pain to work with. I remember being redirected to a new page whenever I had to create a new tag. Then I'd loose the content of the issue I had started to write, something like that.

therealmarv 10y ago
you are doing it wrong. If you want issue management you will buy Jira from the same company which is superior to github. Bitbucket is one tool of many for Atlassian.
- WorldMaker 10y ago
  Isn't that the problem, though? GitHub has one Issue tracker that is "good enough" for most projects I've worked on, and gets better over time because GitHub dog foods it (even if they don't always see some of the large open projects issues with it). Bitbucket has two Issue trackers, a "sort of useful" minimalist one that is worse than GitHub's and an upsell to Jira which is maximalist overkill for any project I've worked on. Atlassian doesn't have much incentive to make Bitbucket's issue tracker any better than it's current "almost decent" because it wants to upsell Jira. You can pretty much assume that Atlassian only works in Jira themselves. (Similarly, VS Team Services has only one issue tracker and I'd rather use that than both of Atlassian's offerings, even though it's almost equally maximalist with Jira, mostly because they clearly dog food it and don't try to upsell into it from a worse system that nobody wants to use.)
  - therealmarv 10y ago
    I've never said I'm a fan of Jira. I also think it is overkill for all the little projects I've been working on. As other mentioned before here: Maybe look into gitlab.com ... they dogfood their project and the bugtracker is pretty good. https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/11/git-repository-pricing/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/11/git-repository-pricing/
vacri 10y ago
I've found github better for open source projects, and bitbucket better for businesses. Github only just recently introduced the idea that one 'deploy key' could be used on more than one repo(!), for example, not to mention that deploy keys had full write access. User management - more important for a business - is much nicer on BitBucket, and was the specific reason why we shifted. And it will continue to be nicer, until they infect BitBucket with the same user management mess that blights Jira/Confluence. :)

by me_bx 10y ago

therealmarv 10y ago

you are doing it wrong. If you want issue management you will buy Jira from the same company which is superior to github. Bitbucket is one tool of many for Atlassian.

WorldMaker 10y ago
Isn't that the problem, though? GitHub has one Issue tracker that is "good enough" for most projects I've worked on, and gets better over time because GitHub dog foods it (even if they don't always see some of the large open projects issues with it). Bitbucket has two Issue trackers, a "sort of useful" minimalist one that is worse than GitHub's and an upsell to Jira which is maximalist overkill for any project I've worked on. Atlassian doesn't have much incentive to make Bitbucket's issue tracker any better than it's current "almost decent" because it wants to upsell Jira. You can pretty much assume that Atlassian only works in Jira themselves. (Similarly, VS Team Services has only one issue tracker and I'd rather use that than both of Atlassian's offerings, even though it's almost equally maximalist with Jira, mostly because they clearly dog food it and don't try to upsell into it from a worse system that nobody wants to use.)
- therealmarv 10y ago
  I've never said I'm a fan of Jira. I also think it is overkill for all the little projects I've been working on. As other mentioned before here: Maybe look into gitlab.com ... they dogfood their project and the bugtracker is pretty good. https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/11/git-repository-pricing/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/11/git-repository-pricing/

vacri 10y ago

I've found github better for open source projects, and bitbucket better for businesses. Github only just recently introduced the idea that one 'deploy key' could be used on more than one repo(!), for example, not to mention that deploy keys had full write access. User management - more important for a business - is much nicer on BitBucket, and was the specific reason why we shifted. And it will continue to be nicer, until they infect BitBucket with the same user management mess that blights Jira/Confluence. :)