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Bitbucket: unlimited free private repos GH: popularity

by ballard 13y ago

flurdy 13y ago
Yeah that is about it. My private repos are replicated to bitbucket, with a couple of public ones. Most of my public projects are all on Github. Github is as you say popular, and has partially become a CV/resume replacement so that it is risky to not have an active account on GH. Also project discovery and sharing on the one popular site is much more likely to happen. No-one finds my bitbucket projects unless I tell them about it. Perhaps if github extended the fork link for a project to upstream/downstream links to external sites it would get more traffic. But that would probably not be in Github's economic interest. This is as a person, for a company there might be different scenarios of what is important. If costs are important then bitbucket is probably a better start. However after a while Stash, Github Enterprise, Gitorious, Gitlab etc will be more suitable for day-to-day hosting.
- _random_ 13y ago
  "has partially become a CV/resume replacement so that it is risky to not have an active account on GH" - LOL, where? Do people even have time to check your repos?
  - flurdy 13y ago
    Obviously 'we' know that most github repos are mostly rubbish experimental garbage (at least mine are), but many startup recruiters that I have met have filtering/scoring on whether a potential candidate has a github account and even a further qualifier if that account is active or dormant. I don't think they go beyond that as they probably don't have the skillset for that, nor do they check any other code hosting sites. But for the anonymous early filtering to get your foot in the door it makes sense to have a semi active github account until you get reviewed by/speak to a proper technical interviewer at which point that sugaring is unnecessary.
    - _random_ 13y ago
      Makes sense. I might add a phrase "I don't use GitHub because I prefer ... instead of GitHub." to improve keyword matching in my CV...

Bitbucket: unlimited free private repos GH: popularity

by ballard 13y ago

Bitbucket: unlimited free private repos GH: popularity

Yeah that is about it. My private repos are replicated to bitbucket, with a couple of public ones. Most of my public projects are all on Github. Github is as you say popular, and has partially become a CV/resume replacement so that it is risky to not have an active account on GH. Also project discovery and sharing on the one popular site is much more likely to happen. No-one finds my bitbucket projects unless I tell them about it. Perhaps if github extended the fork link for a project to upstream/downstream links to external sites it would get more traffic. But that would probably not be in Github's economic interest. This is as a person, for a company there might be different scenarios of what is important. If costs are important then bitbucket is probably a better start. However after a while Stash, Github Enterprise, Gitorious, Gitlab etc will be more suitable for day-to-day hosting.

_random_ 13y ago
"has partially become a CV/resume replacement so that it is risky to not have an active account on GH" - LOL, where? Do people even have time to check your repos?
- flurdy 13y ago
  Obviously 'we' know that most github repos are mostly rubbish experimental garbage (at least mine are), but many startup recruiters that I have met have filtering/scoring on whether a potential candidate has a github account and even a further qualifier if that account is active or dormant. I don't think they go beyond that as they probably don't have the skillset for that, nor do they check any other code hosting sites. But for the anonymous early filtering to get your foot in the door it makes sense to have a semi active github account until you get reviewed by/speak to a proper technical interviewer at which point that sugaring is unnecessary.
  - _random_ 13y ago
    Makes sense. I might add a phrase "I don't use GitHub because I prefer ... instead of GitHub." to improve keyword matching in my CV...