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    Improve the configuration experience for Bitbucket repositories.

    Review Request #8597 — Created Jan. 5, 2017 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded

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    release-2.5.x
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    The Bitbucket configuration experience confuses some users. Since
    Bitbucket moved to a standardized Atlassian e-mail-based system for
    logging in, people often try to use their e-mail addresses to link up
    with the account. However, with Bitbucket, the API actually expects a
    Bitbucket username, and providing an e-mail address ends up triggering
    an unexpected HTTP error code, which we weren't handling.

    On top of this, users who had two-factor authentication could not log
    in with their standard password, which confused some users. This was
    made worse by the fact that Bitbucket provides no reasonable error in
    this case. Users need to use app-specific passwords, which wasn't
    obvious, and is buried in a document somewhere on the Bitbucket support
    portal.

    We now provide a custom authentication form, which gives useful
    instructions on authenticating, spelling out exactly what's needed for
    both the username and password.

    One additional improvement has to do with adding other users'
    repositories. We previously only offered support for adding your linked
    user's repository or a team repository. We now offer an option for
    choosing another user. That takes care of some customer confusion we've
    had in the past.

    Tested the Other User option manually.

    Tested with two-factor auth enabled and using both app passwords (which
    work) and standard Bitbucket passwords (which do not, and fail gracefully
    now).

    Checked the help output for the different choices.

    Unit tests pass.