Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes

Post by hartator » Fri, Sep 04, 2020, 2:04 AM UTC

jrochkind1 wrote: post #123

paxys wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly it. 1.5% of users does not equal to 1.5% of CI/CD minutes. And such messaging isn't always dishonest. If you have 99 users using 100 minutes each and 1 user using 10 million minutes, setting the max limit to say 1000 is a net benefit for the system and its users, at the expense of the one outlier.

Yes, but in this case one user couldn't use 10 million minutes, they were already capped at 2000. Now they are capped at 400 instead. So that limits how extremely disproportionate the high percentile use could be. As I said, that 1.5% of users could have been using at most 1600 more minutes a month than the new max.

Post by swsieber » Fri, Sep 04, 2020, 2:23 AM UTC

jrochkind1 wrote: post #123

paxys wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly it. 1.5% of users does not equal to 1.5% of CI/CD minutes. And such messaging isn't always dishonest. If you have 99 users using 100 minutes each and 1 user using 10 million minutes, setting the max limit to say 1000 is a net benefit for the system and its users, at the expense of the one outlier.

Yes, but in this case one user couldn't use 10 million minutes, they were already capped at 2000. Now they are capped at 400 instead. So that limits how extremely disproportionate the high percentile use could be. As I said, that 1.5% of users could have been using at most 1600 more minutes a month than the new max.

Post by scrollaway » Fri, Sep 04, 2020, 2:28 AM UTC

reificator wrote: post #116

masklinn wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This and that are different things though. Nitro is for individual accounts and provides features for you as a user, boost is for the server and provides features for every user of the server. Maxing out a server takes 30 boosts but the level 3 perks seem pretty… thin on the ground: - +100 emoji (from 150 to 200) - 384Kbps audio (from 256) - 100MB uploads (from 50) - custom URLs Only the third one is somewhat useful,…

#4 is huge, especially if you're running the Discord to promote something else like a Twitch channel or a game. Is it worth the cost? Probably not. But I'd put it above larger uploads in terms of importance, and my discords hit the upload limit pretty often.

Post by ta95846893 » Fri, Sep 04, 2020, 2:42 AM UTC

nrclark wrote: post #22

I've never really understood "minutes" as a unit of build work. What kind of server are we talking about? What CPU? How much RAM? How fast is the storage access? Is my instance virtualized? And if so, do I have dedicated resources? I have a build that takes around 70 minutes on an 8-core i9 with 32 GB of RAM and M.2 SSDs. What does that translate into for Gitlab "minutes"?

Post by pm90 » Fri, Sep 04, 2020, 2:45 AM UTC

xuki wrote: post #136

Why many words when little would do? “We want to reduce cost and make more money, therefore today we reduce the number of free minutes from 2000 to 400 for free accounts. There are options to buy more minutes. kthxbye.” So tired of corporate PR BS.