Re:Announcing new tools, forums, and features
by jschumacher on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:26PM
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That's correct, right now projects in Bitbucket help to organise your repositories into projects. With the raise of microservices, it's quite common that a project or product is made up of many repositories.
In the future you will see us adding more capabilities to projects, such as permission management [1] or settings on a project level, which already exist in Bitbucket Server.
[1]https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BitbucketServer/Usi...
however, unless i'm missing something, a "project" in bitbucket is basically just a folder to group your repositories in. there's no real features associated with it. A github project is project management tools based on a repository.
If GitHub had called their feature something else, (for example, call it "the board") and nobody would be expecting it to be anything other than per-repo.