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We are using bitbucket atm and I can't fathom a reason to move, care to elaborate?

I use GitHub and Bitbucket fairly extensively and I find Bitbucket painfully slow at times (eg. 7.38s to load a page just now with a whopping two open pull requests on it, whilst somehow transferring 8.8MB of crap; the equivalent page on GitHub is about 6 times better on both fronts) and the UI only ever seems to get more clunky. I fear the tight integration with JIRA is slowly infecting it with JIRA-esque problems.

Atlassian is Australian company.

Australia has very weird and wide reaching laws regarding software backdoors.

Can you elaborate on a) what kinds of laws on software backdoors? (Mandating them? Forbidding them? What sort?), and b) how that affects the GP's request?

Edit: Nvm on (b); somehow I got GitLab and BitBucket mixed up as to which one belonged to Atlassian.

Still curious about what sort of backdoor laws they have.

I think it's in reference to this from a few years ago: https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-...

EDIT: I've done some more reading up on this, and The Assistance and Access Act of 2018 explicitly states that government cannot use backdoors: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...

mainly for DevOps related features.

https://about.gitlab.com/devops-tools/bitbucket-vs-gitlab/ ( marketing page, but mostly valid points )

and better code review experience as compared to Gitlab

Most of those are either supported by other Atlassian products or not important at all. Why would I care about a web ide?

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