On 12 Sep 2013, at 03:01, Roland Haas roland.haas@physics.gatech.edu wrote:
Signed PGP part Hello all,
For what it is worth, this is only true for private repositories. For public repositories it is unlimited. We use BitBucket for both Enzo and yt, which have more than five committers each.
https://bitbucket.org/enzo/ https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/
Both of these are managed under "Team" accounts, where individuals retain their own accounts but can belong to a collective team organization, manage repositories under that team, and so on.
Thank you both Barry and Matthew. This is good news, I had not realized there that this only applies to private repos or that there is academic licensing.
Yours, Roland
My email is as private as my paper mail. I therefore support encrypting and signing email messages. Get my PGP key from http://keys.gnupg.net.
To summarise, my understanding is that BitBucket allows unlimited users for public repositories (our case), and the number of users for private repositories depends on the type of account. Academic accounts (which need a unique academic email address, which cannot be associated with any other bitbucket account) can have unlimited private repositories, whereas "normal" accounts are limited to 5 unless you pay money. This is better than Github, which does not allow any private repositories at all unless you pay money.
I created both "einsteintoolkit" and "cactus" BitBucket team accounts a while ago and put some Git mirrors of the current SVN repositories there for testing.