It still asks me to setup a subscription plan with cc to create a new private repo. What am I missing? Or has the upgrade not rolled out to me yet?
Announcing unlimited free private repos
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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos
#232While I think this is a great move, don't forget that private repos also means no more free Travis CI.
Gitlab CI however offers 2,000 build minutes a month with their integrated CI service.
Even if your whole set up takes 10 minutes to build on CI, that's 200 builds a month which is plenty for an individual project that's on a private repo.
In other words, I think Gitlab's free private repos + CI is still a better choice for a solo developer who wants private repos since CI is such a useful tool and other external CI services have much more limited free plans (to use with Github instead). Having everything in the same UI is also really useful, which is another win for Gitlab.
I prefer Github's UI for overall repo exploration and issues, etc.. but I'm not sure if I'll move my private repos over to Github now that's it free, because the repo itself is only 1 piece of the puzzle.
Microsoft also has a deep connection with Docker. It's kind of no surprise that Docker only has automated build support for GitHub and Bitbucket. Kind of a bummer, but with Gitlab CI you can get the same effect in the end.
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#233So, Microsoft cares more about capturing the complete social graph of the software community than it does about direct revenue from an already not-very profitable (or perhaps not at all profitable?) acquisition. Got it.
Microsoft has both linkedin and github, meaning they have the social graph of the government, business and the technology spheres. That social graph is arguably even more valuable in terms of revenue opportunities than facebook's. Direct revenue of linkedin and github might as well be irrelevant.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look at the URL. The datestamp is set to the 5th instead of the 8th, when the embargo for the news lifts. The only reason this post was published early was because a stupid typo when scheduling it.
And, on a numeric keypad, the 5 is directly below the 8, supporting the typo hypothesis. Tweets from the author: > Oh fuck me. > I just accidentally published a major piece of news one day early because I've got butterfingers and typed the wrong number in the scheduler. > Is it too early to start drinking? > Wordpress is fucking stupid. If you schedule something for \ in the past\* it should say "er, are you sure?" i…
You actually responded to the author (matthewjhughes), which also supports the typo hypothesis.
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
> GitHub is in the strange position of being both a successful enterprise product AND a social network. What other product exists with that kind of crossover? LinkedIn comes to mind, which was also aquired by Microsoft.
LinkedIn might be successful, but its ugliness and spammy nature is in stark contrast with Github.
I never saw real value in linkedin beside being there so people tried to use it as resource pool.. it felt like a status thing.
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#236This makes me uncomfortable. Private subscriptions were a direct revenue stream for Github, and explained directly how they can afford the infrastructure that provides the service. Generally when previously paid stuff becomes free, it's because the paid service is no longer a product - it's now a tool to attract users. How will users be monetised now?
Think of it as marketing expense to attract people that went to Bitbucket and Gitlab. A % of these users will convert to a paid plan. No need to get concerned here.
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#237It still asks me to setup a subscription plan with cc to create a new private repo. What am I missing? Or has the upgrade not rolled out to me yet?
The CEO just said that "Give it a couple hours. We had to announce a day early due to a press leak.".
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would just be more time wasting. I think he is regretting ever spending time on that.
Yep it's the time I spent making the decision (Gitlab isn't the only other choice, and I did a bit of research), then changing my scripts to point to Gitlab instead of Github and letting a couple of testers know where to go to file issues then familiarizing myself with Gitlab's interface. Not a huge amount of time, but since I only have about 2-3 hours per day to work on the technology side of the business, it was a…
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#239Anyone know when this is supposed to be turned on? I'm still seeing the old system/verbiage on the GitHub Billing page.
Tomorrow, as the article says it was published a day early due to an error.
The NextWeb article says it was published a day early, yes. However, the official GitHub announcement continues to refer to release day as "today."
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#240A lot of people are concerned about the “what if they make me the product since I’m no longer paying.” A few reasons I don’t think that will happen: - private, single contributor repos tend to be pretty small. it costs Github very little to service a single account. - Github is a growing social network for developers. Getting young engineers on the platform for free will pay off handsomely when they join a team and a…
When GitHub's financials got leaked in 2016, GitHub's personal accounts accounted for 12.5% of their revenue. GitHub Enterprise was 50%, their organization (= business) accounts were the remaining 37.5% [1]. It's fair to say that the personal accounts are irrelevant from a revenue perspective.
[1] https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-bett... (disclaimer: I wrote the article but the data is by Bloomberg)