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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by Zamicol » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 5:42 PM UTC

TheRealWatson wrote: post #21

saagarjha wrote: post #8

I'm curious if GitHub is now a loss leader for Microsoft, or if personal subscriptions were a small portion of their revenue.

I have zero insight on this but I also don't know anyone in my circle who pays individually for Github... When they need that, they use Bitbucket. I know several people I worked for or did business with that paid for Organization accounts, from Team to Enterprise.

It sounds like recently they sorted things out, but Bitbucket's interface was buggy to the point of unusability for me. Some scary permission issues like not being removed from a corporate team.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by jdlyga » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

This is the main reason I used GitLab. Can't make student Git repositories public!

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by SomeHacker44 » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 5:44 PM UTC

LyndsySimon wrote: post #22

matthewjhughes wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I know. For some reason, when you put a past date in Wordpress and press "schedule," it publishes the article automatically. That's all this was -- a typo.

That's really unfortunate :( I'd be interested to see if you do a post-mortem on this - what the consequences were, and what steps you end up taking to ensure that it doesn't happen again.

The upshot may well be that this gentleman and/or this publication no longer receives embargoed information anymore, at least for a time.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by whalesalad » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 5:44 PM UTC

I've been paying $7 a month since like 2010. Woohoo!

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by simplify » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 5:44 PM UTC

TheRealWatson wrote: post #21

saagarjha wrote: post #8

I'm curious if GitHub is now a loss leader for Microsoft, or if personal subscriptions were a small portion of their revenue.

I have zero insight on this but I also don't know anyone in my circle who pays individually for Github... When they need that, they use Bitbucket. I know several people I worked for or did business with that paid for Organization accounts, from Team to Enterprise.

Just to throw in my anecdote, I've been paying for a personal account for 8 years. It'll be interesting to see where Microsoft goes with this.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by derimagia » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 5:44 PM UTC

__john wrote: post #26

One thing I like about bitbucket/atlassian over github is bitbucket's pipelines[1] and the bitbucket-pipelines.yml file. I really wish github had something like that. [1] https://bitbucket.org/product/features/pipelines

Github does have "Actions" which is their version of this which is in beta:

https://github.com/features/actions https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-github-actions...

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by eaurouge » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 5:45 PM UTC

jamp897 wrote: post #24

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #12

I imagine this will harm BitBucket somewhat.

Bitbucket’s killer feature is integration with JIRA and the rest of the Atlassian stack, so I doubt it’ll have much impact.

I guess that depends on your definition of “killer”, particularly wrt Jira.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by balls187 » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 5:45 PM UTC

This is a smart move.

Gives developers who have small indy projects a reason to use Github rather than a competitor (I know I use gitlab precisely because it's free for my private one-off repos).

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by klinskyc » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

While understandable, this is sad to see. The amount of interesting and useful code that is currently available due to GitHub defaulting to public will likely be seriously negatively impacted by this.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by tomphoolery » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 5:47 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #8

I'm curious if GitHub is now a loss leader for Microsoft, or if personal subscriptions were a small portion of their revenue.

Yeah I'd imagine that GitHub Enterprise and org subscriptions are their primary source of income. User subscriptions never really made much sense to me.