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The key differentiator on Github's side is community involvement. The UI allows you to quickly search for projects across repositories. Bitbucket seems more ge
by philpem 7y ago
The key differentiator on Github's side is community involvement. The UI allows you to quickly search for projects across repositories.
Bitbucket seems more geared to teams working internally; finding projects on Bitbucket is hard.
To be brutally honest, I used Bitbucket because I had a grandfathered academic account (most features free). Github offers nearly all that I had on that account now.
Github is great for "social" coding, but Bitbucket is very clearly moving towards targeting insular, corporate development tasks. But then, with the price ticket on Atlassian's products, that's hardly a surprise. B2B is their bread and butter.
- antupis 7y agoyeah, I think that open source and other social products will gear towards Github. While Bitbucket will thrive in B2B space. currently, JIRA has a huge moat around it and I am not seeing that disappearing in the near future.
- philpem 7y agoThere's already a self-hosted version of Bitbucket which is fairly decent aside from being as slow as molasses (which, let's face it, is an 'Atlassian thing' at this point). I used to use Jira extensively for my own internal projects (and, hilariously, my personal TODO list), but I'm moving away from that. I'm moving from my own personal server to a couple of Droplets, and I realised in moving JIRA across just how bloated it is. Most of the SCM integration tools I use are pay-for now, so for $10/yr, I'm getting less than I'd get with a Mantis or Bugzilla install. I need to have a look for a new bugtracker. Custom Workflow support would be nice, that's really the only feature which kept me on JIRA for so long!