GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala

Re:GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala by joeblau on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:01AM (#6494820)

I don't 100% understand this project. From the screenshots [1] it looks exactly like GitHub so why would I want to use this product over GitHub, GitHub Private, or GitHub Enterprise? Both GitHub and Bitbucket are community, pages, hosting, public repos, third party integration, new features, innovation and support. While this looks like a cool programming challenge, I need to be sold on why I should use it as a product.

Edit: Someone pointed out that they may be looking for developers to hack on the project which makes sense.

[1] - http://takezoe.blogspot.jp/2013/09/gitbucket-15-released.htm...

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Re:GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala by hrjet on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:05AM (#6494839)

It's open source. You could fork and add more features to it. For example, I am going to try and add a file navigator in the PR interface. Another is, voting for an issue without adding a +1 in the comments. This is the biggest pain point in GitHub for me.

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Re:GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala by hansgru on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:10AM (#6494849)

> I need to be sold on why I should use it as a product.

What about self-hosting for public and private repos? (Internet or intranet)?

It's main usage is for small teams and projects that don't want to put theirs source on external servers, nor do have the money for GitHub Enterprise.

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Re:GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala by joeblau on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:25AM (#6494907)

There are already multiple established solutions (which are noted in other comments) that are free, paid, open-source and closed source with large communities that solve this problem. At my last company, we had an Ubuntu machine running our git-server and it solved the issue you're saying.

Edit: You know what would make this awesome. If this project could some how extend GitHub via the API and somehow replace GitHub when it goes down. Sort of like a private HA solution to GitHub incase of an emergency. Now THAT is something that I'd look at and say "okay this solves a new challenge with the current state of hosted Git platforms."

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Re:GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala by hansgru on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:30AM (#6494922)

> There are already multiple established solutions

Of course there are, but everything I've tried was a paint to setup. GitBucket was the first project that was very easy to setup: in an existing Tomcat (or other container), just drop the WAR file, and everything works. Also no dedicated machine is required for this (I host it along with other applications)

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Re:GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala by haakon on Friday October 04, 2013 @09:11AM (#6495099)

For testing you can even run it with 'java -jar gitbucket.war', and five seconds later you have it up and running.

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Re:GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala by joeblau on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:36AM (#6494938)

Ease of install is a feature that I can definitely appreciate.

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Re:GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala by rytis on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:02AM (#6494826)

For example when you don't want to rely on GitHub being available/online? Or if you just don't trust 3rd party service providers with your data?

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Re:GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala by joeblau on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:18AM (#6494877)

This project is marketing the community aspect, not the availability of privacy aspect. This doesn't provide any better availability/privacy than GitHub Enterprise or GitLab and it doest provide anymore trust than those two services. If you're looking to learn Scala or hack on an open-source Scala project, then I could see why this is cool.

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