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GitHub is now free for teams

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Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by StavrosK »

JamesCoyne wrote: post #11
klinskyc wrote: post #3

Seems like Github is feeling heat from GitLab/BitBucket. I guess the calculation here is that the enterprise contracts are where all the money is, and keeping smaller customers on GitHub is worth the price cut?

Personally, I have been favoring Gitlab over Github because Gitlab allows private repos on the free tier.

I have been favoring Gitlab over Github because their CI is the best CI I've ever used. It just works, whereas every other CI found a way to make things hard for me.

You can even spin up postgres and redis instances for tests by just specifying that you want them. It's amazing.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

JamesCoyne wrote: post #11
klinskyc wrote: post #3

Seems like Github is feeling heat from GitLab/BitBucket. I guess the calculation here is that the enterprise contracts are where all the money is, and keeping smaller customers on GitHub is worth the price cut?

Personally, I have been favoring Gitlab over Github because Gitlab allows private repos on the free tier.

As of early last year Github has offered this as well:

https://github.blog/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by q3k »

98codes wrote: post #19
smaili wrote: post #7

For those wondering "what makes it worth paying now?", GitHub briefly addresses that: Teams who need advanced features (like code owners), enterprise features (like SAML), or personalized support can upgrade to one of our paid plans.

Along with the expected limit bumps on Action execution time and package storage.

And, unfortunately, 'required reviews' (which IMO are a critical feature).

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by jlgosse »

JamesCoyne wrote: post #11
klinskyc wrote: post #3

Seems like Github is feeling heat from GitLab/BitBucket. I guess the calculation here is that the enterprise contracts are where all the money is, and keeping smaller customers on GitHub is worth the price cut?

Personally, I have been favoring Gitlab over Github because Gitlab allows private repos on the free tier.

Github has had free private repos for years now

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by roland35 »

This is great news! I've always had my repositories spread across GitHub, gitlab, and bitbucket depending on what size group or features I needed but this helps centralize everything to GitHub. That is probably their goal!

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by natfriedman »

Hi HN, I'm the CEO of GitHub. Everyone at GitHub is really excited about this announcement, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

We've wanted to make this change for the last 18 months, but needed our Enterprise business to be big enough to enable the free use of GitHub by the rest of the world. I'm happy to say that it's grown dramatically in the last year, and so we're able to make GitHub free for teams that don't need Enterprise features.

We also retained our Team pricing plan for people who need email support (and a couple of other features like code owners).

In general we think that every developer on earth should be able to use GitHub for their work, and so it is great to remove price as a barrier.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by snazz »

thereyougo wrote: post #15

Very few companies can make me feel like part of their journey like Github (Cloudflare also) They understand their target audience more than most of the companies out there. When they are making moves such as this, they explain what was behind it. I find it authentic.

Me too! Microsoft has done a really great job of managing the acquisition without ruining GitHub. GitHub already had a great understanding of their audience and a pulse on the community prior to being bought, so I'm really glad that they haven't lost that now that they're a Microsoft subsidiary.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by shrikant »

Google haven't built up too much of a user base for GCP's Cloud Source Repositories service yet (my speculation), so I wonder if they're viewing Gitlab as an acquisition target.

TBQH, I don't see Gitlab lasting too much longer without an acquisition event of some sort, when facing up against this sort of Microsoft-backed feature funding. And I say this as a bigger user of Gitlab than Github (primarily because of the free private repositories and organisations).

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by JamesCoyne »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #22
JamesCoyne wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I have been favoring Gitlab over Github because Gitlab allows private repos on the free tier.

As of early last year Github has offered this as well: https://github.blog/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/

Missed that announcement I guess
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