Re: [Repo-criteria-discuss] Add info about Bitbucket

[Aaron Wolf]

On 08/27/2017 03:55 AM, zizau wrote:
> Hi, I wanted to start a project and I was thinking in what platform I
> will host the repositories. A while ago i found the page about
> repository criteria on gnu.org
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html> and now I
> prefer to use GitLab instead of GitHub (before reading the the page I
> though that GitHub was great). I also like GitLab because it have free
> private repositories and I want to have a private repository while my
> project is in very early development and it's not yet public. I don't
> like Savannah because I think the UI is old and complicated. I searched
> if there are other good hosting sites and I found that Bitbucket
> <https://bitbucket.org/> also offers some good features like unlimited
> free and private repositories and I was wondering if it's ethically good
> and what grade it have in GNU ethical repository criteria.
> 
> Thank you!
> 

I can tell you one clear thing about BitBucket: it is itself proprietary
software, that's certainly not ideal but it doesn't mean a failing grade
necessarily. Apparently, it needs formal evaluation still.