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Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by jMyles »

Joeri wrote: post #233
jMyles wrote: post #154

So, 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.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm thinking.

So, what's their social graph play?

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Post by Kadin »

paxys wrote: post #86
GordonS wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, although one of the products this competes with is Azure DevOps - which also offers unlimited git repos... and is of course also owned by Microsoft! I'm wondering what the future holds for both GitHub and Azure DevOps. I actually use both, and have done for several years, and they're both great products - I'd hate for either of them to go away.

Azure DevOps is a lot more than just source control, so there isn't all that much overlap with what GitHub offers. I imagine the future will be GitHub for VCS, issues, project management and Azure for CI/CD, testing and deployment.

Except that doesn't put GitHub on par with GitLab. So they are basically kneecapping one product (GitHub) in order to not compete with another product (Azure), leaving them with two halfassed products, neither of which are as good as the competition (GitLab, which has built-in CI).

They'd be better off killing one product or the other, rolling it into the remaining one, and at least having a single-brand offering that can compete on features with GitLab.

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Post by bovermyer »

tinyhouse wrote: post #243
bovermyer wrote: post #227

Anyone know when this is supposed to be turned on? I'm still seeing the old system/verbiage on the GitHub Billing page.

They just updated it a few minutes ago! By the time the blog post was out it was still asking for a credit card. Now it doesn't. They really rushed things out because of that TNW mistake! Like many others here I'm also pretty happy about it. $7/month is not a lot of money but I also moved some personal private repos to BitBucket to avoid the fees. I will probably go back now.

Yeah, I'm in the process of migrating all of my GitLab repos to GitHub now.

My workflow is GitHub+CircleCI, so GitLab was never a big win for me; I just used it for the private repos.

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Post by agumonkey »

klinskyc wrote: post #39

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.

Plausible, or maybe more people will try things privately and when they get some interesting results they'll turn it public. I know I had a little amount of shame in not throwing lots of stuff publicly..

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Post by laurentl »

iambateman wrote: post #164
klinskyc wrote: post #39

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.

You could be correct, but the “social network” boost to reputation potential is strong enough now that I suspect a lot of people will still choose to post public content where reasonable, while us cheapskates won’t have to look to another platform for private code hosting.

For better or worse, having a Github profile is now a thing that’s expected of developers, so public repos are here to stay.

Personally speaking, I’ll still default to public for my side projects. But a free private repo sounds like exactly the thing for online classes or web challenges where you’re explicitely asked not to share your code. I’ve just started on the cryptopals challenges, now I know where to put my code :D

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Post by http-teapot »

jadbox wrote: post #212

I'm still only seeing the free plan in Github as " Free plan, unlimited public repositories". Is this a slow rollout or something?

Nat Friedman (GitHub's CEO) says in the next couple of hours: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1082346291290468352

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Post by StavrosK »

hellofunk wrote: post #249
StavrosK wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My move to Gitlab was basically "come for the free repos, stay for the rest of the amazing features". I will not be moving off it, and my new repos will keep being on Gitlab.

What features of Gitlab do you prefer?

The integrated CI is amazing, the Docker registry is nice, the issue boards are great, the saner permission model (you can add multiple people as repository owners without putting them in a team), these are the things I can recall off the top of my head.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by boramalper »

Competition in a free market is good, but in the presence of monopolies, it's a self-destructing concept.

TechCrunch wrote[0] "This feels like a sign of goodwill on behalf of Microsoft, which closed its acquisition of GitHub last October, with former Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman taking over as GitHub’s CEO." I believe it's more of a sign of an attempt to kill GitHub's rivals by hurting their revenue streams. As Aaron Levie, co-founder and chief executive of Box once said in 2014, “These guys will drive prices to zero, [...] you do not want to wait for Google or Amazon to keep cutting prices on you. ‘Free’ is not a business model.”[1]

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/07/github-free-users-now-get-...

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/technology/box-dropbox-an...

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by philliphaydon »

nickjj wrote: post #232

While 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 ch…

Vsts has 30 free hours (1800 minutes) on hosted build agents for windows OS X and linux.
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