Bitbucket.org

[Jesper Noehr]

On Aug 1, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Wojciech Milkowski wrote:
> Jesper Noehr pisze:
>> Go check it out: http://www.bitbucket.org/
>
> Thank you very much for your awesome work, I'm already using it, and  
> I'm really pleased. It is the most desirable event since mercurial  
> 1.0 :-).
> I personally does not care if the site itself will be published  
> under OS license. If the 'closed way' will be more helpful for its  
> support and evolving, then it will be the right way for me.
>
> Three suggestions from my side:
>
> 1. The default home page should be focused more on social aspect,  
> rather than private repositories (or at least be configurable on  
> that aspect): recent added, most active and best rated projects,  
> maybe some kind of commenting them (I'm not sure of that feature) or  
> sending 'kudos', etc.
> A some kind of graph with project dependency (subprojects, forks,  
> etc.) would be also nice.

Good idea.

> 2. It would be great to have some kind of visual graph explore of  
> changeset's tree: Flash (like github), Java applet of just AJAX.

There's already a graph on the "Changesets" page. Check it out here,  
e.g: http://www.bitbucket.org/jespern/cx/changesets/
>
> 3. Ability to use of SSL certificate to encrypt https connection,  
> not only to authenticate it. I also have a problem with  
> 'bitbucket.org' domain, that is not a '*.bitbucket.org' validated by  
> existing cert.

The connection on bitbucket.org *is* encrypted, although our SSL  
certificate does not validate on that host, as you say it's  
*.bitbucket.org. This host is only used by mercurial though, as our  
frontend proxy will redirect anything else to www.


Jesper