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GitHub is now free for teams
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Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#42Hi 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?
We'll have a beta next month, and should ship this summer.
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#43Hi 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'd like to thank you for this change but also in general all the amazing things Github is doing. I haven't finished high school yet but your Github Education pack is SO useful for me and I know I will never have time to use half of the stuff on it.
Thanks to everyone at Github making stuff like this possible and creating such a great epicenter for open source in general. Keep on being awesome!
Also I was wondering, Github is offering so many features for free, but does the company sustain itself through entreprise payments or some other stream? I was just curious. :)
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
That's odd, https://github.com/pricing mentions it as a paid option.
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#45Does “for teams” also apply to paid personal accounts?
It seems to, on the upgrade page for a personal account it still says "Pro" but for $4/m
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#46Hi 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.
Agreed. SAML even makes sense for solo dev.
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#47Hi 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'd like to thank you for this change but also in general all the amazing things Github is doing. I haven't finished high school yet but your Github Education pack is SO useful for me and I know I will never have time to use half of the stuff on it. Thanks to everyone at Github making stuff like this possible and creating such a great epicenter for open source in general. Keep on being awesome! Also I was wondering,…
Glad you like the Student Developer Pack. All credit goes to the 100+ partners who provide something like $200k in tools and services to each student who qualifies for the pack. It's kind of mind-boggling, actually.
As for how we sustain ourselves -- lots of big enterprise customers!
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
And that's exactly how "sprint 0" should be :)
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#49Does anyone remember the arbitrary actions GitHub has taken in the past few months and all the "maybe it's time to start leaving GitHub if you want to avoid getting your repositories permanently deleted?"
Or is HN just as susceptible to the narrow news horizon?
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#50Hi 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'…
Thanks for doing this. Is this effective immediately now? I tried to downgrade to free just now but it's giving me a giant list of features I'd lose if I continue. Also any change to Data pack pricing for LFS Data?
Due to the on-going Pandemic, I've been trying to cut business costs left and right. Github Team was one of those I wanted to cut but it's also so important that I couldn't decide easily. So thanks again for the change. Much appreciated!