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Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by amsully »

grinich wrote: post #59
amsully wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! Any perspective of extending SOC2 Report access to the Teams level? Small companies in regulated environments aren't able to jump to enterprise ($$$) so need to look elsewhere to get a SOC2 compliant version control system at a decent price. Love the Github product so it was tough when we had to make the decision to move off of it.

I don't work at GitHub, but I believe if you reach out to GitHub Support and sign an NDA they can provide you the SOC-2 report. (Most vendors will do this.)

We reached out and were told we would need to upgrade to the enterprise version. (This was probably 5 months ago before they announced a few startup friendly offerings)

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by tmpz22 »

If you're like us and your entire Github usecase now fits within this free tier, it seems like you'll have to manually downgrade for it to take effect.

> We’re also reducing the price of our paid Team plan from $9 per user/month to $4 per user/month, effective immediately. Existing customers will have their bills automatically reduced going forward.

I don't mind this - we'll likely stay on the paid plan anyways at that price point. But there you are.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by dmw_ng »

This is an awesome change! In case anyone else was wondering, here's what you lose by cancelling:

    You are downgrading to GitHub Free
    After April 15, 2020, ... features and limits will change:

    Protected branches in private repos
    Draft PRs in private repos
    GitHub Pages in private repos (using 1)
    Wikis in private repos
    Code owners in private repos
    Multiple issue assignees in private repos
    Multiple PR assignees in private repos
    Code review automatic assignment in private repos
    Scheduled reminders in private repos
    Standard support
    2,000 minutes for GitHub Actions (currently 3,000)
    500MB of storage for packages (currently 2GB)

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by CitizenKane »

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.

Throwing in a second opinion here for those curious. I've worked with a number of CI systems and had trouble with many.

Gitlab CI has been the opposite of other experiences I've had with well over 10k jobs completed across different projects with diverse needs. Even for small hobby projects it's been great for me, it's nice to easily be able to push updates without having to worry about it. Makes it much easier to iterate and test things out!

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by vptr »

thramp wrote: post #35
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.

Agree. I sell simple sass product myself and offer SAML to everyone. I view security as a basic right, not something to be used to extract more money for. Charging for additional features is ok, charging for keeping your account more secure is just plain wrong.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by pubby »

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'…

Hey Nat glad to see you here. A few days ago one of the biggest team collaborative games (Space Station 13) got banned on GitHub without a public explanation from GitHub staff, but some suspect it was because the code contained bad words and slurs. Do you know if this is why the project was banned, and will these new private team repos be subject to the same terms/rules?

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by freedomben »

natfriedman wrote: post #39
tekknolagi wrote: post #33

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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.

I love github, but the fact that it is not open source has always been a big problem to me, especially given that github has become the de-facto home for so many open source projects, yet is not itself open source. I would love to see that change to a model like Gitlab uses!

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by ketralnis »

zentiggr wrote: post #49

Does 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?

Or maybe different people have different needs and HN isn't a single cohesive hive mind
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