Atlassian...is this project dead?

[Former user]

Hi Atlassian,

Maybe you should give more effort to this project!.

Cheers, Mark

[James Navin]

Hi Mark,

No, this project is not dead. However, it is currently being maintained by me as a 20% time project which equates to ~2wks each quarter that I can devote to it for making fixes and implementing features etc.

In general I am more than happy to discuss changes, review and merge PRs and shepherd releases outside of that 20% time, but right now I don’t have the capacity to allocate more time than that.

If there are specific issues you would like addressed please feel free to raise or comment on tickets and/or raise PRs.

Cheers,

James

[Sven Döring]

Hi James. Is this an official Atlassion project or is it a hobby of yours?

‌

[James Navin]

Hi Sven,

It is an official Atlassian project in that Atlassian owns the IP and uses it internally in a number of teams. Other Atlassians contribute features and bug fixes as/when they require them, but I am the primary contributor and maintainer. Having said that, we are in the process of revamping our open source policies and process, so I am hopeful of getting additional resources for this project in the future (no guarantees though).

On that note (somewhat unrelated) - I have been considering moving the project to Github alongside our other open source projects. Would that be something this community would like to see?

Cheers,

James

[Sven Döring]

GitHub has a better view on mobile devices. It reacts faster. There is a preview button for comments. The overall usability is more thought out¹. The development community is bigger.

But in the end I’m not that often on bitbucket as it would hurt. Most of the time I spend on the project and with Git on the console. That will not change on GitHub.

So, yeah, it’s a nice to have.

‌

¹might be a matter of habit

‌

‌

Edit:

What I like about Bitbucket is that they have a dedicated git clone button. With GitHub I have to type “git clone” on the command line.