On Jan 25, 2016 6:57 AM, "Russel Winder" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Independent of any CI Bill is running with Buildbot, I think we should > make use of any and all CI that Atlassian and others connect to > BitBucket, in the same way TravisCI etc. connect into GitHub. > > Having three or four CI instances all monitoring GitHub repositories > and running tests on every commit and every pull request provides a lot > of very useful support. > > Whilst BitBucket is now clearly a Git resource, it is still providing > Mercurial services and the pull requests and general management is > effectively as good as GitHub. If BitBucket can do issue handling, pull > requests, repository management, and CI (the big one), more or less as > well as GitHub, then there seems no reason to abandon BitBucket. In > fact exactly the opposite, if we can avoid moving from BitBucket now, > that is a good thing. > > Switching from Mercurial to Git however is a completely different > issue. In the short term there is no big deal per se (other than most > of the core developers want to use Git not Mercurial!). However it is > clear Atlassian are pitching BitBucket as a Git repository management > system. In effect, as people at O'Reilly said in 2006-ish, Git has won > the DVCS war. Mercurial is though a contender left in the main game, > all others are now just history with niche markets. (Sad, I liked > Bazaar.) > > I am going to start using the issue tracker on my Python 3 SCons port, > that William is now also tinkering in, to see how it feels. Also I will > try out as many CI systems as I can connect in so as to run Python 2.7 > and Python 3.4 tests for each commit and pull request. I am expecting > some glitches compared to GitHub, but I am confident Atlassian will be > fixing things. > > I note immediately that the BitBucket issues system is not JIRA. I am > assuming it is a stripped down, loss leader version to sell JIRA > instances. >
We may be able to get free Jira by applying open source. Atlassian otherwise will not give out non-free Jira to the plebeians. > -- > Russel. > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > > > _______________________________________________ > Scons-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev >
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