GitHub announcements: Marketplace, Apps and GraphQL API

If I install a free version and hit the limit does it auto upgrade me and charge me or am I just cut off from the service and told I should upgrade to keep using it?

Again, the problems you describe with REST are a limitation of your implementation, not of REST itself. GraphQL itself is built on top of REST via a single GET/POST query endpoint.

The difference between it and typical REST implementations is that the resource identifier and fields to return have been moved into a novel query syntax. However, the same result can be achieved with a typical REST endpoint combined with a sparse fieldset query parameter [1]:

    /users/123?fields=name,email,work.name,work.address

where "work" is a sub-resource in the same vein as GraphQL. The difference between this and GraphQL is purely syntactic:

    user({ "id": 123 }) {
        name,
        email,
        work {
            name,
            address
        }
    }

[1] http://jsonapi.org/format/#fetching-sparse-fieldsets

I'm an owner at Codetree - one of the project management launch partners for Marketplace. We talked through this scenario with GH when we were integrating.

What happens today is the limits are enforced on the app side, not he GitHub side.

So for example our free plan is two users. If you wanted to add a third you'd need to go GH Marketplace and upgrade to the eg 10 user plan. That would trigger an upgrade in Codetree and your plan there would enable you to add up to ten users.

In short: you trigger upgrades and downgrades, not the tool vendor you're using or GH, and thresholds are stored in the tool vendors database so they're the ones who decide how to tell you that you need to upgrade.

Edit: sorry for this. it was not my intention to come across this way. I was wrong.

The Github team was great and tireless during this launch, congrats to Github and all the partners.

I'm Jaime, CEO of Codacy[1] and one of the three chosen Code Quality partners for this launch. We specially love the Github Apps, since we heard for a long time the feedback of asking too many permissions. This has been a bit of a pain point. With Github Apps, it will be easier to cherry pick permissions. This is not yet running in Codacy but it will soon.

One of the reasons why we're excited and decided to take part is the really qualified audience. Everyone just really gets what we do (automated code review) when they are already familiar with Github.

[1] https://github.com/marketplace/codacy

You mean the ones that delete their databases without backups?