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Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by closeparen »

dmw_ng wrote: post #63

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 privat…

It's not clear to me whether this is possible under any configuration, but: can you enforce a two-person rule? I'd like all users to be able to merge accepted PRs, but no one should be able to push directly to master (unless an admin specifically elevates permissions to do that).

The only way I can think of is to have a bot be the only one with commit access, and to interact with the bot to do merging. But that seems pretty roundabout.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by GordonS »

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, with Microsoft now owning Github, I'm really curious to know what the future holds for both Azure DevOps and Github?

I'm a user of both - Github for OSS, and Azure DevOps for private work. IMO, these areas are where they are best suited - pipelines in particular are really powerful in Azure DevOps, and user/permission management, AAD integration and integration with build agents are all excellent.

I really like Azure DevOps, but all this has me worried about it's future - do you know if it's going to continue to exist and be developed in tandem with Github?

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by ghshephard »

sneak wrote: post #81
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…

I feel like anyone who lived through the 90s could have expected "these kinds of results". Git is open source and widely supported, which doesn't benefit Microsoft. By causing GitHub-specific features to be an essential part of a "modern" or "industry standard" git workflow, they can capture more marketshare/attention, and cause alternatives to be sidelined. This requires removing all friction to entering the proprie…

Speaking as someone who worked at Netscape during the 90s, your comparison is missing on a lot of fronts.

First, Microsoft was evil back then because they didn't just rely on excellent pricing and features (both of which they had) - but also because they leveraged their monopoly in one market (desktop operating systems) to prevent competition in adjacent markets (browsers).

I think it's difficult for people to believe that Microsoft has evolved, and grown more responsible (Hell, I can run linux directly with windows - with kernels available on the Microsoft store) - but you need to follow the evidence.

Also, leadership: Satya Nadella != Steve Ballmer.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by Thaxll »

Someone1234 wrote: post #138
irrational wrote: post #127

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What is Actions?

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) services. Essentially when you merge a changeset you can configure a specific branch to automatically test, package, deploy, and integration test that branch with no additional human intervention.

AWS has that.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by oxalorg »

captn3m0 wrote: post #120
oxalorg wrote: post #106

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Hey Nat, thank you so much for this! We're a small team from India and we love Github but were always conflicted due to the pricing. The new flat price of $4/user seems perfect for us. I've already moved one private repo to our org account. Thanks again ^_^

Just curious what motivates you to pick the $4 plan over free? None of the features there are really deal-breaking for most orgs. - Required reviewers - 3,000 Actions minutes/month (Free for public repositories) - 2GB of GitHub Packages storage (Free for public repositories) - Code owners

Hey, captain nemo! The major feature which we're looking for is Github Pages for private repos, coupled with Github actions.

We have multiple client sites (completely static) we're hosting on $5 Droplets (+GST+Backups).

We plan to deploy more such sites and keeping them on Gh-pages (auto build using GH-Actions) would reduce a lot of headaches for us.

Right now we've had all private repos scattered over everyones individual accounts and managing this has been a pain. So it would be nice if there is a single place to keep it all (thanks to free private repos for teams, we'll be migrating all of it to one place soon enough).

With 3 team members, $12/month for all the extra goodies seems reasonable.

We initially used BitBucket but switched to GitHub as we prefer it's UI/UX/Familiarity + a single place to manage both work/open source issues/prs etc is definitely easier.

Oh and gotta need that repo/contributor insight to compete with team mates :P

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by GordonS »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #123
natfriedman wrote: post #96

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Private repos are not subject to our Community Guidelines on public content, so no, we don't enforce the same rules there: https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-communi... I wasn't aware of SS13, and will look into what happened there. Content moderation at GitHub scale is hard and sometimes mistakes are made.

> Content moderation at GitHub scale is hard and sometimes mistakes are made. This is completely fair, but lack of transparency makes it significantly more frustrating.

Agree strongly with this. If a repo is public and gets banned, I think it's reasonable to expect that the community can know why, regardless of the rights or wrongs of the decision.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by tptacek »

kube-system wrote: post #170
thinkharderdev wrote: post #157

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OpenID Connect is the standardized AuthN process built on top of OAuth. It’s “on top of” but in practice it’s a simplification if OAuth for the specific purpose of AuttN

I know, I just personally find it to be a fragmented and confusing set of standards. And a lot of people say OAuth when they mean OpenID Connect, which doesn't help with the confusion... or they abbreviate OpenID Connect as "OpenID" which also means something else. I've never had to clarify what someone is actually trying to accomplish when they want "SAML 2.0"

You said "OAuth only does authz and must be combined with other technologies to get authn"; obviously, that's not true, in the sense that you can simply use OIDC --- a dialect of OAuth --- to get both.

Since OIDC is better than SAML, which is probably the scariest security standard on the Internet, I think it's worth being clear to people that OIDC/OAuth is viable.

The SAML authz story, for what it's worth, is pretty shady.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by aembleton »

samirsd wrote: post #84

what is the font for the text in the upper left that says "The GitHub Blog"? Looks cool.

Depends on your system and what fonts you have installed. The font-family is `SFMono-Regular,Consolas,Liberation Mono,Menlo,Courier,monospace;`

In Firefox:

- Right click on the element, select `Inspect Element`

- Click on the Font tab on the right hand side and it will tell you which font is being used.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by Nullabillity »

natfriedman wrote: post #47
etherio wrote: post #43

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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!

Good point. For anyone using the Student Developer Pack (or any other similar student offer), ask yourself this: Do you really want to become reliant on software and services that will cost you ~$70k/year as soon as you graduate?

Well, unless they decide to switch market or shut down, in which case you're hosed no matter how much you're willing to pay.

Re: GitHub is now free for teams

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Post by ccmcarey »

ebrescia wrote: post #125
angrygoat wrote: post #72

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It looks like pro accounts have vanished? I can't find them anywhere; I assume we just won't be charged from here on out?

Hi, I'm Erica, GitHub's COO. Pricing for Pro Accounts has been changed to $4/mo.It includes 2GB of Packages storage, 10 GB of data transfer and email support. You can downgrade your account to the Free tier if you'd like by following these steps: https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-bi... A full FAQ on pricing is available here: https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu... Hope…

Seems kind of odd as Pro isn't listed on https://github.com/pricing as far as I can see.
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