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2014-09-09 - Google Code transition, GitHub vs BitBucket

Category DEV

Google Code transition:

  • Google Code will close, with enough time to migrate projects.
  • GitHub sounds like a logical choice.
    • Price model is based on number of private repos, with unlimited collaborators.
  • BitBucket is the other choice.
    • Part of the Atlassian group.
    • Private repos are unlimited even in the free plan.
    • Price model is based on the number of users, with unlimited repos.
    • A users is "someone with r/w access to your private repositories"
    • Free model is up to 5 users.

Pros/cons:

  • GitHub is more suited for high visibility + trivial project cloning.
  • BitBucket is better for my personal stuff -- I want low visibility including private repos which I do not have right now.
  • I don't need users (just me, maybe an rdrrlabs repo)
  • With BitBucket, I might want to try to mirror my home repos as backups.

List of Google Code repos and migration path:

  • Most of my GC repos are here to "reserve" a namespace and project name.
  • Most of my GC repos are here to serve as an online backup. Many of them I do not wish to expose so I jungle around to only publish "public" stuff in them.
  • This isn't needed in the GH or BB model since each project is under the user's namespace.
  • I'd suggest going with BB because I mostly want private repos.
  • Most repos would go into private mode for pure archival purposes, no activity.
  • Check whether a repo can be changed from private to public at any time or is fixed.
  • Only expose a minimal set of "useful" repos.


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