Usethis: use_bitbucket() (et al.)

[chris-billingham]

Having the good fortune to use bitbucket here in the office it would be tremendous if there were analogue functions to connect to bitbucket rather than github.

Likewise: create_from_bitbucket(), use_tidy_bitbucket(), and so on through all the various github helper functions.

[jennybc]

FYI I'd be open to PRs here. Probably not a good first issue, though ... hence the label / lack of label.

It would definitely merit some advance discussion/planning. Might make sense to couple with a conversation about gitlab, because that's always the next question :)

[chris-billingham]

Whilst I'd love to step up and help here being the original requestor I probably don't have the programming chops to cover this, however happy to help anyway I can.

[LDalby]

use_gitlab() etc. would be super useful too.

[jennybc]

A recent r-hub blog post About URLs in DESCRIPTION contains a table that is relevant to this issue:

## # A tibble: 1,855 x 2
##    domain                    n
##    <chr>                 <int>
##  1 github.com             4660
##  2 www.r-project.org       164
##  3 cran.r-project.org      143
##  4 r-forge.r-project.org    82
##  5 bitbucket.org            67
##  6 sites.google.com         54
##  7 arxiv.org                52
##  8 gitlab.com               44
##  9 docs.ropensci.org        38
## 10 www.github.com           32

Taking a very naive summary of this suggests that ~98% of the URLs relating to remote hosts are GitHub vs 2% for bitbucket + gitlab.

So this is why we're pretty reluctant to take on (much) code relating to these other hosts, which also aren't used by the usethis maintainers.

[hadley]

I'm going to close this issue because unfortunately we just don't have the expertise to support significant bitbucket or gitlab functionality in this package. I think it would probably make the most sense for this code to live in separate packages that could be maintained by people particularly interested and invested in gitlab and bitbucket.