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Bitbucket is a cloud-based version control platform for developers who want to collaborate on code as well as manage software projects. The software supports tools that focus on team collaboration through review tools, issue tracking, and continuous integration.

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905 Bitbucket Reviews
4.4 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 02, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Venkatesh W. avatar
Venkatesh W.
Contributing Writer
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"Intuitive version control system"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

1. It is free for a team of up to 5 members with unlimited private repositories 2. Easy integration with highly useful add-ons for example codedeploy, codeanywhere etc 3. When it comes to usage of it, it's highly flexible and can be used in several ways as per your needs. You can use it's web based client or on windows it has got wonderful integration with Source tree or if you want to go with command line based git actions, works well on ubuntu as well. 4. Very easy to use, even for some one who doesn't understand too much of command lined based stuff. 5. Easy interface/integration with other Atlassian applications like JIRA, Sorce tree etc

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

Bitbucket has not got anything that makes me dislike it

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

As we're start up, we don't have proper well settled IT team which can help us in revision control system. Engineers have to help themselves in this regard. That's where Bitbucket pitched in like a diamond.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 19, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Judy (Morgan) L. avatar
Judy (Morgan) L.
Software Architect
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"BitBucket improved our processes."
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

It's easy to use and full featured without being expensive. I love the pull-request management that works great for simple code-reviews. We're a small team but growing and it's allowing me to maintain control of our code-base easily without adding a ton of extra work. It enforces our process with just a few settings in the application.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

I wish the code review support was a bit more extensive - we use UpSource for reviewing big changes because that interface is better with lots of files and multiple people commenting. I hope that this is improved in the new release of 4.8.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're managing our GIT repository with a graphical interface that is easier for everyone to use & visualize. The quick code review - merge functionality make my job as lead easier. I can easily examine every merge and catch issues before they get too far.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 11, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
MS
Marc S.
Vp Product Development
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"Best bang for your code repo buck"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

Price price price! Which is consistent with all of the Atlassian products. Also, the integrations with the rest of their suite of tools is fantastic - JIRA, Bamboo, etc, in this case. Every development team needs to use version control...we use git, but Bitbucket also supports Mercurial. Unless you have some rigid security requirements, I recommend the Cloud solution so you don't have to worry about setting up and hosting yourself.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

1 thing - not being able to search your source code. This is actually a HUGE bummer, and has been a feature request for years with them. They have only recently (March 2016) started to get this going, but i believe it's only for the self-hosted installations....THOUGH, on their forums, they have said it's "coming soon" for the Cloud solution. Once this is up and running, i would not be able to say a single bad thing about Bitbucket.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using the cloud version of Bitbucket has allowed us to not have to worry about hosting/maintaining additional servers in our infrastructure, which saves us a lot of time (and money, really).

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 04, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AM
Antonino Francesco M.
I Os Software Engineer
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"One of the best GIT platform"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

Bitbucket integrates very well with JIRA, a popular project and issue-managing app. Pull requests and code reviews Branch comparison and commit history Bitbucket Mac and Windows client called SourceTree; Android app called BitBeaker Integration with tools like Jira, Crucible, Bamboo, Jenkins

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

It's not very easy to learn the teams and repositories UI is a mess, and tends to confuse people.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use BitBucket as our code repository for Git and also our CI service pulls from BitBucket to push into our web server directly, in order to update our testing websites or applications

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 09, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
JP
Jack Benny P.
Owner
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"I use BitBucket for both personal repos as well for my customers and my own businesses"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

BitBucket offers a lot for free. You get free unlimited private repositories which is great. They also offer their service for free for smaller teams. Larger teams cost a bit though, but since I'm only involved in very small teams that not a problem for me.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

Not much really, I think it's a great service. What I miss though is a quick way to download or backup all of your repositories at once. If you have over 100 repositories it could be very convenient with a "download all" button.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

I no longer have to maintain all my customers git repositories. I can just setup a BitBucket account for them and teach them how to use and all is well. I also use BitBucket for my own repositories, but personal and for my two businesses.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 04, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Manoj R. avatar
Manoj R.
Founder & Ceo
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"Great multiple repositories for life cycle management of web applications"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

BitBucket provides an amazing number of functionality to manage multiple repositories like no other service.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

At present, we are totally happy with the service so nothing to complain I'm afraid

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

We expect to build thousands of Singe Page Applications for UnifiedVU Platform. Each App has a lifecycle and require management. BitBucket provides us unlimited repositories to manage each of these apps.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 09, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Very useful and powerful"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

It is a very comprehensive tool, also offers a lot of integrated tools, like bugs control, a nice dashboard where you can see your projects and teams. Also, the best characteristic of Bitbucket, is that it let have private repositories without paid for them.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

I think what I dislike of Bitbucket is that at first, it looks like a lot of things in a same place. So it takes some time to learn how to use it properly. Also, the part when they show you the teams and repositories is a mess, and tends to confuse people. Another thing, is that they want to charge for any extra tool that you want to use

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

We work with a lot of software proyects, and a some of that projects have to be private, in order to preserv the code of the company. Bitbucket helps you with this, providing private repositories. That offers you security and trust in the company

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 04, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Ahmed K. avatar
Ahmed K.
Senior Software Development Manager
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"Excellent code hosting service"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

Secure , on Cloud code hosting solution. Access Managment is easy and effecient API support exists and can connect with All Atlassians' products and many other none Atlassians' products They keeps improving the product with new fatures and bugfixes with strong public issue tracking board which enable us to dicsuss required features with the development and business teams. Downtime is nearly doesn't exist , you find it whenever you need it

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

The issue tracking feature is very limited , they try to push you to purchase JIRA The product was missing multible repositories per project feature for a long time but it's now availabe

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Code hosting WiKi Issue tracking Code reviews

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 28, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Best private/public GIT repository for free"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

1. Free private repositories 2. Commit from web GUI. 3. The syntax highlighting 4. The great integration with all of Atlassian's products

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

Sometime server got down. That's really painful.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am usually using bitbucket for personal projects and commercial too.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jan 25, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Stewart H. avatar
Stewart H.
Principle Engineer
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"Great repository stack"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

I have used many competitors such as Assembla and Github and what I really enjoy here is: * Value - the cost is very low * Integrations - they have several integrations which we use daily for our continuous integrations, etc * Code reviews - I find the code reviews and other user interface features great

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

Lately there has been a string of continual issues such as degraded performance, service outages, etc.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are writing and maintaining the flagship software for our business. This service has sped up our ability to quickly review code, have dialogs about design issues, and monitor team progress.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 25, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
TS
Tomer S.
Cto
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"Excellent alternative to Github, should be the default. "
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

While being able to replicate all of Github's major features, Bitbucket also let's you keep an unlimited number of private repositories.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

Bitbucket isn't as flashy or 'consumer-facing' as Github is.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Version control. Bitbucket allows my business to host private git repositories without worrying about breaking the bank.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 13, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AP
Alex P.
Senior Javascript / Node Js Developer
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"Good alternative to github"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

- Free private repositories - The great integration with all of Atlassian's products ( Bamboo, Jira, Bamboo, etc. ) - The inline discussions - The support for LFS - The syntax highlighting

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

- Sometimes, bitbucket.org won't load (I guess there's too much load) - At times, the pages on the website are loading painfully slow - The user interface could use a few improvements - I don't like the fact that whenever I browse through the repositories, instead of first seeing the files, the source code. First time after clicking the project I am seeing a dashboard with the readme file (or a warning if it's missing). - Sometimes, the cloning of repositories can be really slow. - Sometimes, when pulling, pushing or cloning from a repository, their server do not respond as expected (Time-outs, unreachable, etc.)

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

- I am usually using bitbucket for personal projects, with a non-commercial nature, or when, on commercial projects, I am in great need of integration with an Atlassian product. - The main problem I am solving with bitbucket is keeping non-production-ready code private until it is ready for prime time. It's also a great way to keep personal code containing sensitive data (API Keys) private.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 11, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
PB
Paul B.
Senior Developer, Oracle Open Stack
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"Free private repos and very good alternative to Github"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

The free private repo feature is definitely the most useful feature for personal repos or projects you don't want to open up right away.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

It's not as prevalent as Github so you may be passing up contributers choosing to host here rather Github.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Free private hosting makes it useful for small projects and code sharing internally.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 10, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"My Favorite Github Alternative"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

Bitbucket is a fantastic product that gives users the same type of functionality that is offered by Github. This is an Atlassian product, which provides a number of more advanced tools in their suite of software. I've used BitBucket on the free tier, both in personal and professional use. The biggest advantage and reason I first started using BitBucket was the ability to create and store up to 10 private repositories for free. Github provides free public repositories, but does not offer any free tier for private repos.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

As a free, private and public place for my git repositories, BitBucket has exceeded my expectations. I do not dislike anything about this product since it meets all of my requirements. I guess it would be nice to have an unlimited number of private repos, but I understand that the company needs to put a limit on these things or some users might end up abusing the system.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

From a professional standpoint, I have been using BitBucket to quickly share some prototype or sample code with fellow coworkers. We use the paid solution offered by Atlassian for our main project repositories (FishEye) but BitBucket has come in very handy for quick code sharing and collaboration. I also use BitBucket from a personal standpoint to upload my own projects and code. I am able to create private repos to upload code which acts as a great backup and way to develop projects on multiple devices.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 05, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Long term user - wouldn't move away unless I had to"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

Seeing quick overview of commits and branches. Ability to add deploy hooks and link my single account to accounts of the organisations I have worked for.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

Not an awful lot. The service does exactly what I need it to and I have not yet found a situation where I couldn't do what I needed.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Code storage and sharing. Deploying of code to servers (staging and live).

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 25, 2015
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
SF
Saul F.
Founder And Ceo
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"100% reliable, easy to search and use repository"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

the ease of scaling up and down is a big help

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

searching the wiki feature is a bit of an art

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

using bitbucket as a startup

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Dec 23, 2015
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AA
Alexey A.
Software Test Manager
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"One of the best source control service providers"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

Unlimited private repos, additional plugins support, mercurial/git support, integration with other atlassian services.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

UI a little bit complicated, there is no way to edit something in web UI.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Source control for my projects.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 15, 2015
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
LL
Lianmeng L.
Senior Engineer
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"Free code host"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

free to host private project with git. easy to move from github to bitbucket.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

the issue tracker is terrible, even is worse than github.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

host project for startup for free.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Dec 14, 2015
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
RO
Roberto O.
Android Developer
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"The best private version control repository for free"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

The business model behind BitBucket certainly helps small companies with small development groups: compared to other systems, Atlassian focuses on charging the users with a price only for bigger teams, while smaller ones gets the software for free, with unlimited repositories available right away.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

BitBucket is great at what it does, but it is not as complete as GitHub: you will most probably need to purchase other softwares to efficiently keep track of the bugs, perform code reviews and so on. It is surely a business model, but it makes the software feeling incomplete. It's a great tools, and I would suggest to use it if you need a private git repository

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

In almost every company in which I have been, BitBucket was the choice for the Android team: we usually are in small teams with a lot of repos, so that BitBucket provides the best solution for free, helping us with the versioning and the integrations (the Slack one is certainly one of those I love the most).

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 11, 2015
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AV
Andrius V.
Partner
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"Online source control application"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

Ability to collaborate online with remote development team. Ability to use external tool for source control. We use external tool (Tortouse)to to a source tracking which users like better than SourceTree, but other than that it's gret system.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

Management ob multiple branches can get complicated. Built in issue tracking tool is overly simplistic. The documentation can use the the improvement from how-to perspective. Some of the users used only Source Safe before and translation to the system with multiple branches takes some time to get used to. It would be great if the documentation would explain it better.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our development team is split between USA and Lithuania and using bitbucket we are effectively managing the code base for the projects.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 17, 2015
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
MS
Mark S.
Chief Technology Officer
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"Preferred Github Alternative"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

Integration with JIRA and Confluence and all the familiar features of a hosted GIT service. I enjoy working with the sleek UI and code navigation. It's also extremely powerful to see commits associated with tasks in our development sprints. I prefer to use Atlassians SourceTree with Bitbucket. Bitbucket also has a great issue tracker and built in wiki, but we use JIRA and confluence.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

GitHub has a larger community and offers greater exposure.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Source code control, Code Diffing

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Sep 16, 2015
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Really solid product with a lot of great features"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

The ease of use and setup of the software is what I liked the best. We had it up & running in just a matter of hours, with full customization. All of our team was up & running in just a matter of days where we had very few questions on software.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

There could be more video tutorials on the product. Things like "how-to" digestable nuggets of information where 2-3 minutes later you have your answer.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Enterprise internally based solution like GitHub but not GitHub with integration of Jira. The Stash product helps us with all of that.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 09, 2015
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Great Code Hosting Service for Git"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

It is free for limited number of private repositories. It works really reliably. Never had an issue with server being down. I also like issues page.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

I like git in general. So there is not much to dislike. It does the job.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hosting various code repositories for different products

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 25, 2015
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Akash S. avatar
Akash S.
Graduate Assistant
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"Easy to use source code mgmt system"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

Bitbucket is a very user friendly especially for beginners who do not have much experience with source code management systems. It allows users to create private repository which is generally a paid service on github. Easy to follow steps are provided when setting up a new repo. Really great for beginners.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

So far I have not found any feature that bothered me.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used bitbucket for many of my projects for source control and mostly because it offers private repo which are only visible to contributors.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 29, 2015
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
PL
Pat L.
Software Engineer
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"I am using bitbucket for my personal private repo, as well as some collaborative private repo."
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

Cost of uses is low. It supports git over ssh. I can create group to organize my repos. It has a nice interface. It integrates with slack.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

Nothing really, I think bitbucket is my favorite one.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Personal backup of my projects. Collaboration with friends on part time projects. Very easy to achieve what I do.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Oct 15, 2014
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Stash keeps devs happy"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

Stash is really easy to setup and use. For a company that wants to do an internal Bitbucket or Github style workflow, its hard to beat.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

The backup solution is not quite up to snuff in the version of Stash we have installed.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

We increased our developer satisfaction and speed of development by moving to a pull request based model instead of more formal code reviews.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Dec 05, 2012
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Matthew S. avatar
Matthew S.
Advisory Board Member
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"Lets you focus on writing your code."
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

Personally, my favorite thing about bit bucket is that you can manage and view all projects that you may be involved on from one account. You can access your professional as well as your personal source bases from one simple location. In short, bitbucket allows you to focus on development, while leaving the administrative tasks, like assigning team members and access rights, to the product. The price is right as well at $0 for individuals and small teams, which you can continue to build out for free by referring new users.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

Nothing

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not provided

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 06, 2012
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Jason H. avatar
Jason H.
Manager Salesforce.Com Development
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"The best free svn"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

I love the price a whopping zero dollars! Also it is so easy to setup and integrate with your IDE of choice. I use subversioning on all my code projects now.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

An

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not provided

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 06, 2024
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Ravi R. avatar
Ravi R.
Software Developer
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"Bitbucket | Easy to use git repository service"
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

I like its built-in CI/CD tool that enables you to build,test and deploy directly from within bitbucket.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

According to me, customer service should be improved.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bitbucket allows me to store my code in cloud based git repositry where i can track changes, review and merge pull requess and automate testing and deployment.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 04, 2024
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Good interface that give you a good overview of your project."
What do you like best about Bitbucket?

The Pull Request with review system. It help to see commit by commit what have been done and understand correctly what the dev have in mind while coding.

What do you dislike about Bitbucket?

Sometime on the homepage, in the "Recent repositories" view there is a bug and i only see 1 project so to jump from one project to the next i have to use the search.

What problems is Bitbucket solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pull request review and environment versionning with pipelines.