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Why is BitBucket not being kept in consideration with this move?

minitech 8y ago
Probably because Bitbucket is a terrible product. It has the worst interface of the group, and less-than-minimal support for pull requests (comments disappear when unrelated changes are made, aren’t easy to browse, aren’t related to a review; only options are approve and permanently close; code expansion doesn’t work past a certain point, and doesn’t work at all if the pull request comes from a repo you don’t have access to even though you could just merge the pull request and get it). Also required users making private forks of paid-for organization private repos to pay again to give access to all team members at once last time I used it, but I guess that’s not relevant for open-source migration.
- qw 8y ago
  > only options are approve and permanently close You can also mark it as «Need work».
  - minitech 8y ago
    Oh, nice. (This didn’t exist back when my team was on Bitbucket, sorry for the outdated info.)
naikrovek 8y ago
I was wondering the same. I thought Atlassian had better rapport among devs than GitLab.
- lallysingh 8y ago
  No. Because they make Jira
  - naikrovek 8y ago
    I laughed.
- sjm-lbm 8y ago
  Does Atlassian have better rapport with the businessy set that often makes purchasing decisions? Yes. Better rapport with developers? Probably not. (and, FWIW, we use Bitbucket/Jira and honestly I'm fine with them - their updates just tend to be full of the annoying things a bad PHB would love and light on the things developers care about)
  - SanDimasFootbal 8y ago
    No sales people pushing the products makes it a little harder for it to be a push down from the businessy-set.
- funfunfunction 8y ago
  I would argue that Atlassian has better rapport with engineering manager types. Their products integrate and bundle quite nicely which is compelling for many organizations. As a dev, I'm not a fan of their UX but I've known quite a few PMs that are JIRA masters and love the fully integrated solutions Atlassian offers.
tjpnz 8y ago
Because it's a slow piece of shit with even slower support. And as others have said is really built to look good to managers.

Probably because Bitbucket is a terrible product. It has the worst interface of the group, and less-than-minimal support for pull requests (comments disappear when unrelated changes are made, aren’t easy to browse, aren’t related to a review; only options are approve and permanently close; code expansion doesn’t work past a certain point, and doesn’t work at all if the pull request comes from a repo you don’t have access to even though you could just merge the pull request and get it). Also required users making private forks of paid-for organization private repos to pay again to give access to all team members at once last time I used it, but I guess that’s not relevant for open-source migration.

qw 8y ago
> only options are approve and permanently close You can also mark it as «Need work».
- minitech 8y ago
  Oh, nice. (This didn’t exist back when my team was on Bitbucket, sorry for the outdated info.)

naikrovek 8y ago

I was wondering the same. I thought Atlassian had better rapport among devs than GitLab.

lallysingh 8y ago
No. Because they make Jira
- naikrovek 8y ago
  I laughed.
sjm-lbm 8y ago
Does Atlassian have better rapport with the businessy set that often makes purchasing decisions? Yes. Better rapport with developers? Probably not. (and, FWIW, we use Bitbucket/Jira and honestly I'm fine with them - their updates just tend to be full of the annoying things a bad PHB would love and light on the things developers care about)
- SanDimasFootbal 8y ago
  No sales people pushing the products makes it a little harder for it to be a push down from the businessy-set.
funfunfunction 8y ago
I would argue that Atlassian has better rapport with engineering manager types. Their products integrate and bundle quite nicely which is compelling for many organizations. As a dev, I'm not a fan of their UX but I've known quite a few PMs that are JIRA masters and love the fully integrated solutions Atlassian offers.

tjpnz 8y ago

Because it's a slow piece of shit with even slower support. And as others have said is really built to look good to managers.