[Python-Dev] Atlassian and bitbucket merge (original) (raw)

Xavier Morel catch-all at masklinn.net
Wed Sep 29 17:09:21 CEST 2010

On 2010-09-29, at 15:26 , Tarek Ziadé wrote:

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:36 PM, <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

On 01:13 am, steve at 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.

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