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193points
94comments
#142of 2,264 in 2016
Top 7%of 2016 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

5 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 4 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.

Idea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Gatekeeper rules engine for permissions and review workflow

    From 1 comment
    • Very impressive. This has some features we've been missing in bitbucket/gitlab/github and it looks like the UI is well thought out and still simple. The IDE-like source parsing…
      kinofcain on HN
  • Handles rebases and force pushes well

    From 1 comment
    • This looks impressive, especially how they seem to handle rebases/squashes with force push, which is a problem that pretty much all other repo managers simply ignore (except for…
      deng on HN
  • Easy deployment as a single Java webapp

    From 1 comment
    • Yes that is true. We build this tool with easy deployment in mind. And we've devoted a lot of our effort to performance. Just check the linux repository for instance…
      robinshen on HN

Objections

  • Java-only code navigation limits usefulness

    From 1 comment
    • Very impressive. This has some features we've been missing in bitbucket/gitlab/github and it looks like the UI is well thought out and still simple. The IDE-like source parsing…
      kinofcain on HN
  • Looks like it is trying to be an IDE

    From 1 comment

Requests

  • Support for more languages such as C#

    From 1 comment
    • Looks interesting, is there any precise roadmap ? (could not find one). Would be particularly interested by C# support, and with the tooling that Microsoft lately, I think it…
      Gmo on HN

Questions

  • How is Java source parsed, frontend or backend

    From 1 comment
    • how do you parse the java-code? In front- or backend? If frontend what libraries do you use or did you create everything from scratch?
      LeanderK on HN

Alternatives named

  • Upsource

    From 1 comment
    • Sounds like you described https://www.jetbrains.com/upsource/ (I am not affiliated with Jetbrains in any way)
      sarnowski on HN
  • Sourcegraph

    From 1 comment
    • Sourcegraph CEO here. We 100% agree, and that's why we built Sourcegraph. Check out our roadmap at https://sourcegraph.com/plan. And try browsing code on Sourcegraph:…
      sqs on HN
  • Gerrit

    From 1 comment
    • This looks impressive, especially how they seem to handle rebases/squashes with force push, which is a problem that pretty much all other repo managers simply ignore (except for…
      deng on HN
  • Reviewable

    From 1 comment
    • i've personally found using Reviewable[0] to be a delight, automatically plugs in your github workflow in that it modifies the comments in your original PR with comments left on…
      irfansharif on HN

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