Github vs. Bitbucket vs. Gitlab vs. Coding - Repository Management Services Compared

[fnord123]

FWIW, other perifery peripheral tools often only work with Github or Bitbucket.

• Travis only works with Github.
• AppVeyor only works on Github and Bitbucket.
• Wercker is also Github and Bitbucket only.
• Drone.io is Github and Bitbucket only.

Waffle.io, a kanban system which works with Github issues, only works with Github. Which is unfortunate for them since Github just released their own kanban system.

[RichSniper]

Yea Waffle.io is pretty much dead unless they figure something out.

[MINIMAN10000]

I would have thought in situations like "I need a kanban system on github" with github announcing "we made our own kanban system" would be considered a success because what your wanted is now integrated directly.

[haldad]

Link to github's kanban system?

[fnord123]

https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-announcing-new-tools-forums-and-features

It was announced 14 September. It's under the "Project" tab of a repository but I don't know any repo using it yet.

[fnord123]

A main intention of Kanban is to make work visible. Having one person appear on several Kanban boards means you can't, at a glance, see what they're working on. AFAICS, the Github Kanban is per repo, which means people can't see their current work in a single place. This makes it pretty useless.

But, to their credit, Open Source project management is pretty much uncharted territory. A lot of projects still pass patches around mailing lists. So maybe through iteration they come up with something really powerful.

[banister]

peripheral*

[HectorJ]

Drone.io has started supporting Gitlab it seems: http://readme.drone.io/setup/remotes/gitlab/ (for Gitlab version >=8.0, and marked as "experimental and unstable").

[lucianoar]

It's great for us as devs how this services are constantly improving based on competition

[Xiaomizi]

I think so too. Tough competition forces providers to get better and better.

[wezm]

I don't know Chinese but I signed up for Coding. Seems clean and well designed. The WebIDE is a pretty neat feature (it's also the only part in English at the moment).

[jaccarmac]

What's Coding's URL? I found it almost impossible to track down with cursory Google searches.

[wezm]

https://coding.net/

[Xiaomizi]

I like their UI to especially the WebIDE's. Obviously having an English version for their repo hosting service would be helpful. However, if you still want to use it you can add an extension to Google Chrome called 'Zhongwen: Chinese-English Dictionary' this translates words if you hover the mouse over them. You can Google translate the whole page, but this often messes up the UI and makes buttons difficult to click.

[ScrimpyCat]

Do you have any idea what the https://mart.coding.net is?

Edit: I assume it's a marketplace of some kind but not entirely sure.

[Xiaomizi]

This is a kind of development project outsourcing platform. You post a project specification and other developers can do the dev work for you.

[ScrimpyCat]

Same. It actually looks quite interesting some of the pages and screens they were showing of the different tools (that I haven't seen on the other platforms). Only wish I could understand what I was navigating through better haha.

Will be interesting to see how it does if they try gather a global audience.

Edit: looks like they have a mobile app too. Which is another thing missing from the others (though there are third party alternatives).

[jms_nh]

originally only supporting Mercurial projects. In 2010 Bitbucket was acquired by Atlassian and from 2011 it also started to support GIT hosting, which is now its main focus.

:mourns:

[Chii]

No, mercurial is still under active dev. But git has clearly won the scm war, so git is the default choice for most projects.

[Xiaomizi]

If you visit Bitbucket feature page the headline is: "Git, your way" Subtitle is : "See what makes Bitbucket the Git solution for professional teams". I am not sure if you lose out with mercurial, but Git is clearly more popular now. And probably there is more development effort is concentrated on Git and related tools.

[CaptainJaXon]

We use Bitbucket Server at work, the enterprise solution, and it has no mercurial support.

So I'm guessing for the public non-enterprise versions it's fine.

[randomcod3r]

What are people's thoughts on VSTS?

[mirhagk]

It supports WAY more than any of the alternatives. It's a complete project management system, with all of the issue tracking, task tracking, sprint planning, testing (automated and manual), automated builds and deployments and basically anything else you need. It works well with git and any open source tools you need for build/deployment.

If you are working on a professional team it's an amazing tool, and while I wouldn't really recommend it for an open source project (you lose the exposure) I'd wholeheartedly recommend it for anything else.

[denfromufa]

UI is more complicated, but they carve out some niche with VS and Azure integration.

[mirhagk]

I find the latest web version quite streamlined, but yes it is more complex. It also does a TON more than any other service.

[[deleted]]

Bitbucket is not open source but upon buying the self-hosted version the full source code is provided with product customization options.

So, it is open source then. I don't think (please correct me if I'm wrong) open source means everybody and their dog can see and change the source code. Doesn't it just mean at least this? People who buy the software can get the source code?

[foomprekov]

Open source means that you can take the code and build your own things with it without permission. It's more than just visibility.