I love bitbucket as i love mercurial! and I am would be contributing very often in IPython department if you migrate to bitbucket.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:14 PM, David Verelst <[email protected]>wrote: > More project hosting spam: found a recent and interesting comparison > between Github and Bitbucket here: > https://nudowdeployer.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/github-vs-bitbucket-2/ > > > > > On 15 November 2013 10:33, Dave Hirschfeld <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thursday, 14 November 2013 23:42:13 UTC, David wrote: >>> >>> I would like to chime in to voice support for moving away from Google >>> Code: either Bitbucket or Github would be an improvement in my opinion. >>> Bitbucket and Github both offer a social dimension (=easily visualize and >>> share your contributions to various projects) to coding, and I would partly >>> ascribe the success Matplotlib/Numpy/Scipy have on Github to that (so in >>> addition to the pull request mechanism). Personally, I think Github's >>> interface is very nice, but the arguments mentioned in this thread in >>> favour of Hg/Bitbucket sound very reasonable as well. >>> >>> Given Google's recent history of killing of projects, I wouldn't be too >>> surprised if Google Code is the next one to die. I am not sure, but the >>> fact Google Code hasn't seen any (?) change in the last years isn't >>> reassuring my gut feeling about its future. >>> >>> I use both Git and Mercurial, and wouldn't consider myself as in expert >>> in either of them. However, I have the impression that both are powerful >>> enough to support many different work flows to tailor everybody's needs. >>> For instance, the two stage git commit strategy reduces to one with "git >>> commit -a". >>> >>> Two additional features I really like about Github are: >>> + automatic cross-referencing of issue's and pull requests >>> + github pages for hosting the project web site: >>> http://pages.github.com/ >>> >>> And it seems Bitbucket has a very similar issue trakcer actually: >>> https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Use+the+issue+tracker >>> >>> Automatic closing issues when committing: >>> Bitbucket: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Resolve+ >>> issues+automatically+when+users+push+code >>> Github: https://github.com/blog/1386-closing-issues-via-commit-messages >>> >>> For reference, Github features: https://github.com/features >>> and Bitbucket documentation: https://confluence.atlassian. >>> com/display/BITBUCKET/Bitbucket+Documentation+Home >>> >>> Regards, >>> David >>> >> >> +10 for git/github here! I have some local changes but haven't submitted >> them because I don't know mercurial and don't know the Google Code workflow. >> Since almost every other project in the scientific ecosystem uses git & >> github I've needed to know it so have taken the time to learn it and have >> never looked back. >> I can get away with my lack of mercurial / Google Code knowledge because >> it only affects Spyder for me. >> >> I agree with Carlos though - the tools and workflow have to be right for >> the main contributors and given my lack of time (and Qt expertise) I'm >> unlikely to ever be one of those. >> I am proud though to have my name (very far down) in the list of official >> contributors to An Afternoon Hack, and maybe if Spyder were on GitHub I'd >> someday get similar recognition in this great project too. >> >> Yours Anecdotally, >> Dave >> >> >> PS: Even though I'm on Windows I prefer command-line interfaces. For >> those who like guis though there's GitHub Windows - >> http://windows.github.com/ >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "spyder" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "spyder" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
