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Unlike GitHub though Atlassian isn't just working on GitHub but many other tools for developers. This includes JIRA, Confluence and so on. GitHub is mostly focused on repositories. This is why devs had to write a letter to GitHub to tell them hey can you guys seriously work on the Issues system? With the resources of Microsoft it will not surprise me to see a much more open and capable GitHub.

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Except that Atlassian aren't really working on Bitbucket any more. There's lots of issues with the system that are not being resolved. Last time I had a problem with Bitbucket I found they had known about it for months and done nothing, with no plan to do anything either.

But then, as I understand it, Bitbucket was an acquisition rather than a brainchild of the Atlassian team, so you can expect a certain amount of neglect.

An omen for github?

Atlassian has a lot of people working hard on Bitbucket. They shipped pipelines, deployments, code aware search, new UI, git lfs, embedded Trello and a lot more while improving uptime and performance, getting soc2 type 2 certified and a massive amount of other stuff.

They might not be working on the bits you care about, but they're definitely working on it. I agree, a few more resources should be invested by companies to fixing bugs and not just adding new features instead.

> With the resources of Microsoft it will not surprise me to see a much more open and capable GitHub.

Devil's advocate: why would Microsoft invest in improving, say, the issues functionality of GitHub when it could instead integrate and push users towards its existing products and tools for project management, like SharePoint?

Because they develop some of their core open source products right on top of GitHub. Visual Studio Code, .NET Core (and dozens of core libraries for .NET / .NET Core) as well as the less popular things they work on in the open.

See their GitHub for more:

https://github.com/Microsoft

Also their focus is now on developers. They made VS Code completely free, MIT Licensed and not for themselves, but for developers.

Yes, beacuse they we're losing out as web development exploded, and realized no one wanted to pay for an editor when there we so many great free alternatives. They did it out of necessity, not out of innovation. Just like everything they do when it comes to their "open source movement"

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