Comment by mplewis

10 years ago

Bitbucket kills GitHub issues with these two features:

- Multiple assignees for an issue - An "Approve" button so that maintainers can stamp a PR with the seal of approval

Surprised I didn't see my personal favourite mentioned - the unlimited free private repos!

  • To be fair, GitHub has to make money.

    None of the complaints are about the GitHub business model, which is IMO pretty fair.

    • True, I guess with Atlassian it's different as their actual flagship product is Jira (and I assume the people who buy the paid-for BB packages are loyal to BB due to things like the free repos so it evens itself out).

    • GitLab offers pretty much the same as GitHub and is free (as in FLOSS). Their hosted version also offers free unlimited private repositories.

I just wish that bitbucket's UI was half as smooth as Github. Sure, it's not terrible, but it has a lot of rough edges.

I've used Bitbucket for years and I've never seen "multiple assignees for an issue" as something which is available. I've just looked at a couple of our (private) repositories and I still can't see how you would do it. Either that feature doesn't exist or it's used in an extremely obscure manner.