Hi from the new SourceTree product manager
By Rahul Chhabria on October 7, 2015Hello, SourceTree community!
My name is Rahul Chhabria, and I joined Atlassian this September to be the product manager of SourceTree. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been using one or more Atlassian products as part of my development workflow. I can’t tell you how excited I am to be joining Atlassian and supporting an amazing community of users.
Prior to joining Atlassian, I worked on a variety of projects ranging from space hardware and education technology to web apps for the California DMV. Most recently, I worked as the product manager for Apple’s database product, FileMaker. I led the product direction for their mobile application, FileMaker Go. Before working at Apple, I was the product manager for Originate, a boutique consulting firm that partnered with small businesses and brought their products to market. At Originate, my team built the first generation Active Learning Platform for Echo360. The platform included a robust content management system, scheduling tools, and an interactive digital classroom experience. Lastly, I co-founded Eduschedu, a cloud-based lesson planning tool for K-12 teachers. In my spare time, I advise and help grow early-stage companies in the Bay Area.
Where does SourceTree fit into my story? As you can see from my previous roles, I’ve always been a fan of building tools with the goal of improving their respective industries. Now I have the opportunity to directly improve the lives of every developer using Git and Mercurial. That is mind blowing! I am ready to take the leap.
SourceTree has given us a massive head start. It takes a complicated workflow and simplifies that workflow without any compromises. I never want to see SourceTree lose that. So, at Atlassian, we’re building a team to take SourceTree to the next level. I am stoked!
I’ve been a consultant for the past ten years and have been looking for a place to call my home. I’m thrilled to be at Atlassian and am looking forward to working with you all to make SourceTree the number one graphical Git and Mercurial client in the world. Onward and upward! Look out for more communications, frequent updates, and new features in this blog.
21 Comments
Somehow reminds me about this post from February http://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2015/02/25/were-just-getting-started-with-sourcetree/ after which actually nothing happened. Good luck anyway.
Hmm… Me too. Will see.
Sad story – hopefully not again big announcements without deeds following …
yeah! maybe u like to take a look at this git client http://gitup.co/ for inspiration 🙂
Welcome. I really hope you can get SourceTree off the ground and going again. And please don’t make this post end up being like that pathetic post from February.
I gave up on SourceTree. This was last piece of Atlassian technology standing, but it also fell. Now it’s GitUp on Mac and GitExtensions on windows – at least they don’t screw up your repository when you work with them.
Thanks for the comments. We’re building a new SourceTree team. Look out for more frequent updates and improvements.
“more frequent updates and improvements.” 4 months ago… and stilll nothing. ST is dead? 🙁
We appreciate your continued support. Please know that we are behind SourceTree and will be investing in the coming months. Thank you.
Guy from February got canned I guess. You guys are dropping like flies.
Mike Minns is still here and part of the SourceTree team.
Your welcome! Hopefully that does not spoil the version! And when aver finally added support GitFlow-> New Feature (On the other branches not to Develop) is so difficult?
Maybe we will finally get SourceTree for Linux?
Really hoping to see REAL improvements to Sourcetree, not lip service. Sourcetree for Windows needs restarting 8x – 10x every day for most of us here, it’s not really fit for purpose in it’s current state.
It seems to work OK on very simple projects (which I guess as similar to what are used to test it). Try using Sourcetree on large Visual C++ projects witht thousands of C and CPP files, creating temporary objects within the repo (that are ignored by the .gitignore, but not by SourceTree), and it quickly falls apart.
The GUI just stops updating, and shows no changes when there are changes that need to be committed.
Thank you. We’re actively investigating performance issues on Windows. This feedback is really helpful. Please feel free to send comments via twitter at @rchhabs or through jira.atlassian.com. Lastly, would you be open to a phone call?
Sadly for us, it’s now game-over. Management don’t understand the difference between Stash/BitBucket and Sourcetree. Sourcetree problems has pretty much destroyed the whole Atlassian brand in our company 🙁 TFS has just been purchased and rollout starts next month.
I’m sure once they discover TFS is an even bigger disaster, The atlassian stuff may come back, but until then, it’s goodbye. Sourcetree has wrecked any chances of us having good developer tools 🙁
Thanks for the feedback. Do you have time for a quick phone call next week? I’d like to learn more about the struggles that eventually lead to the decision to rollout TFS.
Rahul, where/how do we submit feature requests/suggestions?
Thanks for the comment. Please post feature requests/suggestions at jira.atlassian.com or support.atlassian.com. Feel free to reach out to me directly on Twitter at @rchhabs or here’s a link to my calendar if you’d like to connect live: https://calendly.com/rchhabria/30min.
Welcome. And thanks for the great product. Looking forward to more polish. Any thoughts on doing open source?
Same again, promises, and then silence….