On 2010-09-29, at 15:26 , Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:36 PM, <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: >> On 01:13 am, st...@holdenweb.com wrote: >>> I see that Atlassian have just taken over BitBucket, the Mercurial >>> hosting company. IIRC Atlassian offered to host our issue tracking on >>> JIRA, but in the end we decided to eat our own dog food and went with >>> roundup. >>> >>> I'm wondering if they'd be similarly interested in supporting our Hg >>> server. Or is self-hosting the only acceptable solution? From recent >>> mail it looks likes we may be up and running on Hg fairly soon. >> >> I know of two medium sized projects (smaller than CPython) that are >> switching away from BitBucket's free services because of their poor >> reliability. > > Me too, but I am pretty sure the reliability is going to drastically > change in the upcoming months. If Atlassian took over this probably > means Bitbucket will have more people to work on the project and some > help from the Atlassian Ops. That's really a good news !
According to Atlassian's announcement of the acquisition, they've already gotten started on that: >> Performance enhancements > Bitbucket's performance has lagged due to poor infrastructure and > lack of IT resources. Recently, Bitbucket customer repositories were > migrated from an EC2 storage system to the Contegix data center, the > same ISV that Atlassian uses for its hosted tools. Atlassian has hired > a full-time IT resource to continue to improve the Bitbucket service > to work on delivering even more services and improvements. It should > be noted that all Bitbucket users are now covered under the Atlassian > Terms of Use. There is heaps more work to do to provide the legendary > service that Atlassian customers have come to expect, and we fully > intend to live up to that promise. >> Feature updates > We've tripled the Bitbucket developer team to ramp up feature > improvements and the frequency of releases. Over the next few months, > users can expect to see more UI improvements, feature enhancements, > and integration with Atlassian's developer stack. Even though the team > has already tripled, we're still hiring (hint hint)! YMMV. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
