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by james-skemp 3780 days ago
Started moving from TFS over to Bitbucket server (local install for legal reasons). Have thus far created one project and a half dozen repos in it.

Using this for work:

- Would love to be able to see something on my profile page. I've got hundreds of commits but my user page is completely empty. Maybe this is because our repos are private, but since I'm logged in I would expect to see something.

- I love GitHubs personal commits page, as well as the reporting features baked into each repo. I think it would make the higher ups happy if they could see how active we are.

Note that there is a plugin that seems to do this, but while it's cheap for 10 users the price escalates at a weird rate ($1 to $6 to $8 /user at the first three tiers). At this point I'm hoping we can trial it out to show how much it would help with reporting/at a glance metrics, and then hopefully find funds for it. Or find a package to generate these locally. I'm not sure why this isn't just baked in though.

- Triggering emails when commits are made seems to be a plugin? Or email isn't setup correctly yet. This one still needs to be dug into.

- This is a value add: README file support for projects?

Maybe it's intentional, but coming from GitHub a local server install of Bitbucket is just so plain.

Edit: And kudos for reading Hacker News and leaving a comment asking for feedback.

3 comments

I'll see what we can do on the profile page part. Would be easy to "put something" on the page - harder to put the right thing. Email me if you have thoughts (scott@).

Email should be built in. Raise a support ticket with our amazing support team if any issues with that.

I'll check on README. I thought we had equivalent, but perhaps in a different place. Will have to wait until the team wakes up.

> Maybe it's intentional, but coming from GitHub a local server install of Bitbucket is just so plain

We try to be deliberate about adding features that matter. The Bitbucket server team is one of the best at Atlassian, so hopefully you're saying the lack of "right features" is the issue, not just the extra whitespace.

Thanks for taking time to add feedback. I really appreciate it & helps us make a better product.

You're right about commit notification emails, an add-on is currently the best way to get this. It's something we'd love to add soon but isn't being worked on right now. You can hook up HipChat notifications for new commits as an alternative, and one that means less email.
I call my README files README.md and they show up.

Never tried it without the .md extension since that was the Github default (IIRC).