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Interestingly, that Atlassian co-publishes this on GitHub, keeping the main development on BitBucket.
by cygned 10y ago
Interestingly, that Atlassian co-publishes this on GitHub, keeping the main development on BitBucket.
- dkersten 10y agoGitHub has become the defacto standard place for open source. I've heard it said that if you care about contributors or users of open source, you should publish to GitHub even if that's not where you develop it. I guess Atlassian have realised this too...
- INTPenis 10y agoI understand what you're saying and unfortunately it's true but it's also silly because Gitlab, Bitbucket and others can use Open Auth APIs to make contribution easier. I for example use Google Auth on Gitlab but Github didn't have that back when I signed up. If they did I would have used it there too.
- dkersten 10y agoI guess GitHub got mindshare early and then became the entrenched option. So its less about technical merits than not, although anecdotally, while GitHub has its flaws, in many ways I prefer its UX to that of GitLab and Bitbucket. For example, Bitbucket's overview page isn't very useful to me at all and yet its the default repo page.