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Migrating away from Bitbucket 2025-12-26 07:29:47
Recently Atlassian announced that were deprecating forked repositories outside of the parent workspace. I can't really say I find this move surprising as it has long felt that Atlassian was focused on businesses with largely private repositories. For example Bitbucket has been encouraging the adoption of JIRA for issue tracking, including replacing the basic issue tracker with a JIRA board. I looked into switching ECWolf over, but found out that in order to even have a public JIRA board I had to request an open source project license, and even if the board is public anonymous users will have the wonder user experience of getting permission denied when viewing the board from Bitbucket.
Needless to say though this announcement is antithetical to the social role that hosting services like GitHub as well as Bitbucket before it was acquired by Atlassian championed. Although Git was built for emailing patches, I do believe the way these platforms eased collaboration is much of the reason that projects like ZDoom and its descendants have been able to grow as much as they have. Given that, it's clearly time for me to migrate my projects away from Bitbucket.
The new repositories for ECWolf and Doomseker can be found at https://github.com/ECWolfEngine and https://github.com/DoomseekerTeam respectively. Some of my minor project repositories are planned to be moved over as well.