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/
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> On 15 November 2013 10:33, Dave Hirschfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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/
>>
>>
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