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Apache Allura vs Bitbucket: What are the differences?

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This Markdown code provides a comparison between Apache Allura and Bitbucket, highlighting key differences between the two.

  1. Collaboration Features: Apache Allura offers robust collaboration features, including integrated code review, issue tracking, and wiki functionality. Bitbucket, on the other hand, focuses more on code collaboration, providing features like pull requests and inline code comments.

  2. Scalability and Customization: While both Apache Allura and Bitbucket can be self-hosted, Apache Allura offers more scalability and customization options. It supports multiple databases and allows for plugins development, making it suitable for large-scale projects. Bitbucket, however, is more streamlined and provides a simpler interface for small to medium-sized teams.

  3. Integration and Ecosystem: Bitbucket has a stronger integration ecosystem and offers seamless integration with other popular Atlassian tools like Jira and Confluence. Apache Allura, on the other hand, provides integrations with various third-party tools, but the options are more limited compared to Bitbucket.

  4. Pricing and Hosting: Bitbucket offers both free and paid plans, with different features and limitations. It also provides cloud hosting for ease of use. Apache Allura, being an open-source platform, is free to use but requires self-hosting, which can involve additional setup and maintenance efforts.

  5. Version Control System (VCS) Support: Bitbucket primarily supports Git as its default VCS, allowing for distributed version control. On the other hand, Apache Allura provides support for both Git and Subversion (SVN), offering flexibility for projects using different VCS tools.

  6. Community and Support: Bitbucket has a larger user community and provides comprehensive documentation and support resources. Apache Allura, although it has an active community, has comparatively lesser documentation and support available.

In summary, Apache Allura and Bitbucket differ in their collaboration features, scalability and customization options, integration ecosystem, pricing and hosting, VCS support, and community and support resources. The choice between the two ultimately depends on the specific needs and requirements of the project.

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Eric Seibert
DevOps at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · | 6 upvotes · 534.5K views
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We are using a Bitbucket server, and due to migration efforts and new Atlassian community license changes, we need to move to a new self-hosted solution. The new data-center license for Atlassian, available in February, will be community provisioned (free). Along with that community license, other technologies will be coming with it (Crucible, Confluence, and Jira). Is there value in a paid-for license to get the GitHub Enterprise? Are the tools that come with it worth the cost?

I know it is about $20 per 10 seats, and we have about 300 users. Have other convertees to Microsoft's tools found it easy to do a migration? Is the toolset that much more beneficial to the free suite that one can get from Atlassian?

So far, free seems to be the winner, and the familiarization with Atlassian implementation and maintenance is understood. Going to GitHub, are there any distinct challenges to be found or any perks to be attained?

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These are pretty competitive, and to recommend one over the other would require understanding your usage. Also, what other tools you use: for instance, what do you use for Issue-tracking, or for build pipelines. In your case, since you are already using Bitbucket, the question would be: do you have any current pain-points? And, on the other hand, do you already use Atlassian's JIRA, where you'd benefit from the tight integration? So, though I would not recommend one over the other just in general,. But, if Bitbucket fulfills your current use-cases, then there seems to be little motivation to move.

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Hi, I need advice. In my project, we are using Bitbucket hosted on-prem, Jenkins, and Jira. Also, we have restrictions not to use any plugins for code review, code quality, code security, etc., with bitbucket. Now we want to migrate to AWS CodeCommit, which would mean that we can use, let's say, Amazon CodeGuru for code reviews and move to AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodePipeline for build automation in the future rather than using Jenkins.

Now I want advice on below.

  1. Is it a good idea to migrate from Bitbucket to AWS Codecommit?
  2. If we want to integrate Jira with AWS Codecommit, then how can we do this? If a developer makes any changes in Jira, then a build should be triggered automatically in AWS and create a Jira ticket if the build fails. So, how can we achieve this?
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Sinisha Mihajlovski
Design Lead | Senior Software Developer · | 1 upvotes · 372.1K views
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Hi Kavita. It would be useful to explain in a bit more detail the integration to Jira you would like to achieve. Some of the Jira plugins will work with any git repository, regardless if its github/bitbucket/gitlab.

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Decisions about Apache Allura and Bitbucket
Elmar Wouters
CEO, Managing Director at Wouters Media · | 7 upvotes · 572K views

I first used BitBucket because it had private repo's, and it didn't disappoint me. Also with the smooth integration of Jira, the decision to use BitBucket as a full application maintenance service was as easy as 1, 2, 3.

I honestly love BitBucket, by the looks, by the UI, and the smooth integration with Tower.

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Weverton Timoteo

Do you review your Pull/Merge Request before assigning Reviewers?

If you work in a team opening a Pull Request (or Merge Request) looks appropriate. However, have you ever thought about opening a Pull/Merge Request when working by yourself? Here's a checklist of things you can review in your own:

  • Pick the correct target branch
  • Make Drafts explicit
  • Name things properly
  • Ask help for tools
  • Remove the noise
  • Fetch necessary data
  • Understand Mergeability
  • Pass the message
  • Add screenshots
  • Be found in the future
  • Comment inline in your changes

Read the blog post for more detailed explanation for each item :D

What else do you review before asking for code review?

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Weverton Timoteo

One of the magic tricks git performs is the ability to rewrite log history. You can do it in many ways, but git rebase -i is the one I most use. With this command, It’s possible to switch commits order, remove a commit, squash two or more commits, or edit, for instance.

It’s particularly useful to run it before opening a pull request. It allows developers to “clean up” the mess and organize commits before submitting to review. If you follow the practice 3 and 4, then the list of commits should look very similar to a task list. It should reveal the rationale you had, telling the story of how you end up with that final code.

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Pros of Apache Allura
Pros of Bitbucket
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    • 905
      Free private repos
    • 397
      Simple setup
    • 349
      Nice ui and tools
    • 342
      Unlimited private repositories
    • 240
      Affordable git hosting
    • 123
      Integrates with many apis and services
    • 119
      Reliable uptime
    • 87
      Nice gui
    • 85
      Pull requests and code reviews
    • 58
      Very customisable
    • 16
      Mercurial repositories
    • 14
      SourceTree integration
    • 12
      JIRA integration
    • 10
      Track every commit to an issue in JIRA
    • 8
      Deployment hooks
    • 8
      Best free alternative to Github
    • 7
      Automatically share repositories with all your teammates
    • 7
      Source Code Insight
    • 7
      Compatible with Mac and Windows
    • 6
      Price
    • 5
      Login with Google
    • 5
      Create a wiki
    • 5
      Approve pull request button
    • 4
      Customizable pipelines
    • 4
      #2 Atlassian Product after JIRA
    • 3
      Unlimited Private Repos at no cost
    • 3
      Also supports Mercurial
    • 3
      Continuous Integration and Delivery
    • 2
      Mercurial Support
    • 2
      Multilingual interface
    • 2
      Teamcity
    • 2
      Open source friendly
    • 2
      Issues tracker
    • 2
      IAM
    • 2
      Academic license program
    • 2
      IAM integration

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      • 19
        Not much community activity
      • 17
        Difficult to review prs because of confusing ui
      • 15
        Quite buggy
      • 10
        Managed by enterprise Java company
      • 8
        CI tool is not free of charge
      • 7
        Complexity with rights management
      • 6
        Only 5 collaborators for private repos
      • 4
        Slow performance
      • 2
        No AWS Codepipelines integration
      • 1
        No more Mercurial repositories
      • 1
        No server side git-hook support

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      What is Apache Allura?

      Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more for any number of individual projects.

      What is Bitbucket?

      Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.

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