Discovering new projects on Bitbucket

By Jesper Noehr on April 27, 2011

For Atlassian’s most recent FedEx, I decided to tackle an issue we’ve had with the old explore page: It wasn’t very useful for finding new projects! We were showing repositories with the most number of commits that month, and that tended to be the same 5 to 10 repositories. What about up and coming projects? What about repos people are talking about elsewhere on the internet?

To that end, I came up with three minor changes:

Instead of displaying trending repositories for the month by commits, display trending repositories for the week by new followers.
Allow Bitbucket staff to highlight repositories that might not otherwise show up in the trending list.
Display recent tweets that link to bitbucket.org (minus automated tweets for new commits).

The end result is a quick, at-a-glance view of what’s happening on Bitbucket and what the community’s currently talking about:

See the new explore page in action on Bitbucket!

http://www.ericksasse.com.br Erick Sasse

One thing that is still missing is a way to explore repos by language.
http://www.ericksasse.com.br Erick Sasse

One thing that is still missing is a way to explore repos by language.
http://www.ericksasse.com.br Erick Sasse

One thing that is still missing is a way to explore repos by language.
Anonymous

That’s great, it really is. But are you guys ever going to implement things like:nn* Issue 1561: The ability to define your own states for issues (states like resolved, open, etc). This is *2 years old*.n* Issue 278: Not being notified of your own changes to issues and the like. This is *3* years old.n* Issue 934: Creating/marking issues as private. Two years old.nnAdd real, meaningful functionality to Bitbucket before you add frills like this. I’ve been using Bitbucket for a year now, and I haven’t seen a single significant feature like this added at all. I’m sure there’s been a lot of backend functionality and so forth, but the capabilities of accounts is essentially unchanged. This is not good.nnBitbucket’s issue tracker is the most basic, bare-bones issue tracker on the Internet. There is no reason why it couldn’t be more full featured.
Anonymous

That’s great, it really is. But are you guys ever going to implement things like:

* Issue 1561: The ability to define your own states for issues (states like resolved, open, etc). This is *2 years old*.
* Issue 278: Not being notified of your own changes to issues and the like. This is *3* years old.
* Issue 934: Creating/marking issues as private. Two years old.

Add real, meaningful functionality to Bitbucket before you add frills like this. I’ve been using Bitbucket for a year now, and I haven’t seen a single significant feature like this added at all. I’m sure there’s been a lot of backend functionality and so forth, but the capabilities of accounts is essentially unchanged. This is not good.

Bitbucket’s issue tracker is the most basic, bare-bones issue tracker on the Internet. There is no reason why it couldn’t be more full featured.
Anonymous

That’s great, it really is. But are you guys ever going to implement things like:

* Issue 1561: The ability to define your own states for issues (states like resolved, open, etc). This is *2 years old*.
* Issue 278: Not being notified of your own changes to issues and the like. This is *3* years old.
* Issue 934: Creating/marking issues as private. Two years old.

Add real, meaningful functionality to Bitbucket before you add frills like this. I’ve been using Bitbucket for a year now, and I haven’t seen a single significant feature like this added at all. I’m sure there’s been a lot of backend functionality and so forth, but the capabilities of accounts is essentially unchanged. This is not good.

Bitbucket’s issue tracker is the most basic, bare-bones issue tracker on the Internet. There is no reason why it couldn’t be more full featured.

http://www.bitbucket.org Justen Stepka

Unfortunately we do not have an ETA for the issue tracker improvements. We fully appreciate the limitations the issue tracker has. Each of your concerns is present in our day-to-day management of our public issue tracker on Bitbucket.

Our efforts since acquisition have been to improve the stability and core of Bitbucket, which is code hosting. Many times this comes in the form of bug fixes, which we publish at the end of every month. At other times, features such as compare view and groups for small teams were prioritized so that we could expand from 1 developer to 9.

If you are able to deploy software on your own servers, Atlassian’s starter licenses might be an opportunity for you. For $10 annually, you can deploy your own instance of JIRA for up to 10 users.

We welcome your feedback and hope that you enjoy Bitbucket and continue to provide feedback in the future.

Anonymous

I understand you have to prioritize your time as best you can. But you also have to accept the fact that there are other people out there doing what you do, and right now they’re doing it *better* than you do. If GitHub had a Mercurial option, I’d have already jumped ship months ago (because I hate Git with every fiber of my being).

Bitbucket works; it is functional for managing a project. But it is very, *very* unpolished right now. Polish is how you keep users and expand your userbase. Polish is what separates the merely functional from the very good. Ignoring polish only means that your users will jump ship the moment someone else comes along with something better that does the same thing your stuff does.

Discovering new projects is important. But so is making the projects you already have *better*. I would suggest that it’s more important.

Delori J Miller

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Anonymous

I’ve just come here looking for a way to find some interesting projects on BB – hoping to find something I might be able to contribute to. But by default the explore page is empty… filtering does nothing – so then I started thinking of things to search on, which is self-defeating…. If I know what I want to find then I’ll just go find it and the explore page is useless.

I’d rather see a Bitbucket version of github’s gists than any time spent on a search page… google does a pretty good job of search after alll
Anonymous

Unfortunately we do not have an ETA for the issue tracker improvements. We fully appreciate the limitations the issue tracker has. Each of your concerns is present in our day-to-day management of our public issue tracker on Bitbucket.nnOur efforts since acquisition have been to improve the stability and core of Bitbucket, which is code hosting. Many times this comes in the form of bug fixes, which we publish at the end of every month. At other times, features such as compare view and groups for small teams were prioritized so that we could expand from 1 developer to 9.nnIf you are able to deploy software on your own servers, Atlassian’s starter licenses might be an opportunity for you. For $10 annually, you can deploy your own instance of JIRA for up to 10 users.nnWe welcome your feedback and hope that you enjoy Bitbucket and continue to provide feedback in the future.
http://www.bitbucket.org Justen Stepka

Unfortunately we do not have an ETA for the issue tracker improvements. We fully appreciate the limitations the issue tracker has. Each of your concerns is present in our day-to-day management of our public issue tracker on Bitbucket.

Our efforts since acquisition have been to improve the stability and core of Bitbucket, which is code hosting. Many times this comes in the form of bug fixes, which we publish at the end of every month. At other times, features such as compare view and groups for small teams were prioritized so that we could expand from 1 developer to 9.

If you are able to deploy software on your own servers, Atlassian’s starter licenses might be an opportunity for you. For $10 annually, you can deploy your own instance of JIRA for up to 10 users.

We welcome your feedback and hope that you enjoy Bitbucket and continue to provide feedback in the future.
Anonymous

I understand you have to prioritize your time as best you can. But you also have to accept the fact that there are other people out there doing what you do, and right now they’re doing it *better* than you do. If GitHub had a Mercurial option, I’d have already jumped ship months ago (because I hate Git with every fiber of my being).nnBitbucket works; it is functional for managing a project. But it is very, *very* unpolished right now. Polish is how you keep users and expand your userbase. Polish is what separates the merely functional from the very good. Ignoring polish only means that your users will jump ship the moment someone else comes along with something better that does the same thing your stuff does.nnDiscovering new projects is important. But so is making the projects you already have *better*. I would suggest that it’s more important.
Anonymous

I understand you have to prioritize your time as best you can. But you also have to accept the fact that there are other people out there doing what you do, and right now they’re doing it *better* than you do. If GitHub had a Mercurial option, I’d have already jumped ship months ago (because I hate Git with every fiber of my being).

Bitbucket works; it is functional for managing a project. But it is very, *very* unpolished right now. Polish is how you keep users and expand your userbase. Polish is what separates the merely functional from the very good. Ignoring polish only means that your users will jump ship the moment someone else comes along with something better that does the same thing your stuff does.

Discovering new projects is important. But so is making the projects you already have *better*. I would suggest that it’s more important.