Bitbucket Data Center 9.0 Early Access Program release

[remie]

@bplump

There’s been a lot of discussion around the right timing for our EAP. Some partners gave feedback at TEAM 24 that “partial” EAPs weren’t terribly valuable. They wanted API-complete EAPs before starting work. If you think an earlier EAP with a partial set of changes would have helped, I’ll take that on board for the next Bitbucket major release.

I think the issue is mostly with the fact that there is not much time between the EAP and intended GA. Regardless of how many EAPs you ship, if you want apps to be compatible at the same time of GA or within a reasonable timeframe (2 weeks after GA?), you will need to give us more time, especially if this falls near summer vacations (jun-aug, aka mid-2024)