The Hound researched a few different hosting platform for our source code and bug tracking, such as GitHub, Bitbucket, and FogBugz. We had certain requirements for our code hosting. Importantly, we are not doing open source community development. Instead we are using Social Sourcing*. Meaning we are going to have contributions from people within our own growing professional circle. Additionally, cost is a big factor, we need an environment which can scale up from a low cost investment to a larger project with many geographically dispersed contributors. From these requirements we decided Bitbucket is the best choice. It has a free version for up to 5 users. It lends itself to private repositories and constructing teams of contributors, as opposed to completely open to the community. The ticketing system is adequate as well as docs and integration points. FogBugz is a more complete solution, but comes with a much higher cost per developer. The drawback of Bitbucket, at which FogBugz excels, is the lack of agile tools. For that we use GravityDev, but it would be nice to have it all integrated into one point. * Coined Lounging Hound 2011 |