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Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by raziel2p » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 4:22 PM UTC

q3k wrote: post #23

98codes wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

because if you're referring to requiring review approvals before a PR can be merged, that's available in the free plan (under branch protection rules).

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by leesalminen » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 4:22 PM UTC

shrikant wrote: post #29

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…

I think an acquisition of Gitlab would be the only way for me to migrate back to GH from GL. I've been a happy user of Gitlab for years now and have no yearning desire to return to Github.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by tekknolagi » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 4:23 PM UTC

natfriedman wrote: post #26

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'…

Hi Nat. Big fan. I've been on GitHub for a long time now. There's a fair bit of friction in issue/PR management for people who have primarily CLI-centered workflows. I know that `hub` and friends exist, but will there be official, supported clients in the future?

Also: are there plans to open source more of GitHub? Post Microsoft acquisition, I have been increasingly concerned about vendor lock-in, EEE, and so forth.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by specialist » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 4:23 PM UTC

What safe guards are in place to prevent Microsoft from using GitHub to glean competitive intelligence?

Just like Facebook used Onavo.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-onavo-gives-social-me...

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by thramp » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 4:23 PM UTC

natfriedman wrote: post #26

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'…

This is a great change! One request: I wish that SAML was not an enterprise feature. SAML ought be a basic security feature like 2FA—it's especially valuable for open source teams who might use a mixture of services, and an easily accessible and cheap SSO solution would go a long way in raising the security bar for all teams, not just open source teams.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by yingw787 » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

markdog12 wrote: post #14

yingw787 wrote: post #8

Well, this is amazing! I never would have thought the Microsoft acquisition would have these kinds of results! Congrats to Nat and the GitHub team (and by extension Microsoft) for making this possible! I wonder whether this is a result of market conditions, or whether GitHub sees this is a first-to-market play of some sort, or whether it's something else. I hate to be a cynic given how much good Microsoft + GitHub ha…

> whether GitHub sees this is a first-to-market play of some sort Could be a response to GitLab, which had a similar offering for years, including unlimited free private repos.

Maybe, but this move looks to flatten GitHub pricing down to two tiers: enterprise and free, while GitLab has four pricing tiers and the enterprise feature offering doesn't seem to be there (Gold doesn't look too enterprise-y at first glance).

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by leesalminen » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #21

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.

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.

Couldn't agree more. Gitlab's CI is what made me finally fall in love with CI as a concept. Obviously it was needed before, but it always felt like an ugly chore. With Gitlab, it's one of the first things I do when setting up a new project.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by cpascal » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 4:25 PM UTC

natfriedman wrote: post #26

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'…

This is completely unrelated to the announcement, but when will Enterprise Server ship support for GitHub Actions?

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by natfriedman » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 4:25 PM UTC

tekknolagi wrote: post #33

natfriedman wrote: post #26

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'…

Hi Nat. Big fan. I've been on GitHub for a long time now. There's a fair bit of friction in issue/PR management for people who have primarily CLI-centered workflows. I know that `hub` and friends exist, but will there be official, supported clients in the future? Also: are there plans to open source more of GitHub? Post Microsoft acquisition, I have been increasingly concerned about vendor lock-in, EEE, and so forth.

Yes, we are working on an official CLI here: https://github.com/cli/cli

I think open sourcing GitHub is an interesting idea.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by atonse » Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 4:25 PM UTC

natfriedman wrote: post #26

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'…

I would request similar to the sibling post, that at least OpenID Connect or some such SSO could be a feature for us smaller companies that still want to practice good security by doing SSO.