Fwd: Bitbucket.org

[Peter Hosey]

OK, I know I just got us on Launchpad, but fortunately, we're not too
invested yet. What do you guys think of this?

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Jesper Noehr
> Date: July 30, 2008 08:48:59
> To: [Mercurial mailing list]
> Subject: Bitbucket.org
>
> Hi list,
>
> A while ago, I announced Bitbucket on the developers mailing list. I
> now feel we've reached a point where we can confidently announce it to
> the rest of the world, hence this post.
>
> In short, Bitbucket offers:
>
> * A home for your Mercurial project(s)
> * A simple, yet powerful web interface
> * A hg versioned wiki
> * Access control, multiple readers and writers
> * Push/pull over HTTP(s) and SSH
> * Issue tracker
> * Social aspect (following users/repos, events, etc.)
> * Supports OpenID
>
> Go check it out: http://www.bitbucket.org/
>
> We're on IRC as well, on #bitbucket.org freenode, I can also be found
> as 'jespern' on #mercurial. Any questions/feedback are greatly
> appreciated!

[Christopher Forsythe]

They seem responsive enough via irc. It's built with django, so if we wanted something they don't want we could also get a patch going, which is kind of nice actually.

[Vinay Venkatesh]

I think it's not a bad idea either.  Also seems nice to have everything sort of "together" so to speak.

/Vinay

[Christopher Forsythe]

One correction, bitbucket is not oss. They're a business, but provide free oss hosting.