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Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

#31

Post by mattyb »

tzs wrote: post #25
sp332 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand your point. Surely people do pay for hosted storage, even when the code is available?

Looked at from the point of view of for-pay hosted storage, Github is astoundingly expensive. I have 94 megabytes of git repositories at work. Github would want $100/month to host that. If their software was all available and open source, I could host their software and my repositories on an $11/month Rackspace virtual machine, and still have about 7 gigabytes left over (or more realistically just stick it on a vhost…

I have 94 megabytes of git repositories at work. Github would want $100/month to host that.

Huh? My $7/month plan comes with 600+MB of storage, and my job's $50/month plan comes with 6GB. Where are you getting these numbers?

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

#32

Post by sjs »

X-Istence wrote: post #28
bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gitorious's web front-end is entirely open source (but a huge pain to setup) but Github's web front-end is proprietary (although they open source many of their backend libraries).

It's not that big of a pain to set up. It took me just under 2 hours to get it all set up and functioning on Ubuntu Server.

That's a lot longer than it takes to sign up for Github.

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

#33

Post by [deleted] »

tzs wrote: post #25
sp332 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand your point. Surely people do pay for hosted storage, even when the code is available?

Looked at from the point of view of for-pay hosted storage, Github is astoundingly expensive. I have 94 megabytes of git repositories at work. Github would want $100/month to host that. If their software was all available and open source, I could host their software and my repositories on an $11/month Rackspace virtual machine, and still have about 7 gigabytes left over (or more realistically just stick it on a vhost…

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Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

#34

Post by p4bl0 »

sjs wrote: post #32
X-Istence wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not that big of a pain to set up. It took me just under 2 hours to get it all set up and functioning on Ubuntu Server.

That's a lot longer than it takes to sign up for Github.

Your comparison is not fair. Signing up for Gitorious takes the same time as signing up for GitHub (maybe even less since it supports OpenID, I don't know if GitHub does).

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

#35

Post by augustl »

herTTTz wrote: post #12
cookiecaper wrote: post #2

It'd've been advantageous to see this go on a purely open service like Gitorious instead. They often provide similar features as GitHub and could definitely use the exposure of Linus's account. I use and enjoy GitHub, so this definitely isn't a personal gripe, I'd just like to see the competition in that space heat up a bit, and there'd be bonus points if we could simultaneously promote a completely open platform.

Why github Linus? "[...] it was just the first one that came up when I googled for "git hosting". I've not tried any of the hosting places before, so it was a random choice." (I don't know how to link a comment in google+, it's in https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/PVZDD2N3... )

WHen I google "git hosting", the first hit is git.kernel.org, then two stack overflow posts, then Gitorious, then GitHub. I wonder what my account contains that makes Google think Gitorious is more important to me.

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

#36

Post by p4bl0 »

tzs wrote: post #25
sp332 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand your point. Surely people do pay for hosted storage, even when the code is available?

Looked at from the point of view of for-pay hosted storage, Github is astoundingly expensive. I have 94 megabytes of git repositories at work. Github would want $100/month to host that. If their software was all available and open source, I could host their software and my repositories on an $11/month Rackspace virtual machine, and still have about 7 gigabytes left over (or more realistically just stick it on a vhost…

You can do that with Gitorious and many other web front-end for git and/or other vcs (if you need a web front end at all, which is not really clear, and git-web is sufficient if you just need an easy way to link to some commits or file in your source tree).

What would be nice on these open source web front-end for git is decentralized pull/merge requests, I don't know if there is one which does that yet (like you can follow someone with another Status.net install on identi.ca for instance, you could issue pull/merge requests from any "nodes"). Also, this would kind of make a lot of sense for a dvcs.

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

#37

Post by sjs »

mattyb wrote: post #31
tzs wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looked at from the point of view of for-pay hosted storage, Github is astoundingly expensive. I have 94 megabytes of git repositories at work. Github would want $100/month to host that. If their software was all available and open source, I could host their software and my repositories on an $11/month Rackspace virtual machine, and still have about 7 gigabytes left over (or more realistically just stick it on a vhost…

I have 94 megabytes of git repositories at work. Github would want $100/month to host that. Huh? My $7/month plan comes with 600+MB of storage, and my job's $50/month plan comes with 6GB. Where are you getting these numbers?

Number of repos.

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

#38

Post by tzs »

mattyb wrote: post #31
tzs wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looked at from the point of view of for-pay hosted storage, Github is astoundingly expensive. I have 94 megabytes of git repositories at work. Github would want $100/month to host that. If their software was all available and open source, I could host their software and my repositories on an $11/month Rackspace virtual machine, and still have about 7 gigabytes left over (or more realistically just stick it on a vhost…

I have 94 megabytes of git repositories at work. Github would want $100/month to host that. Huh? My $7/month plan comes with 600+MB of storage, and my job's $50/month plan comes with 6GB. Where are you getting these numbers?

Github pricing is by number of repositories. I have 37 repositories. That requires the "Gold" plan, which is $100/month.

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

#39

Post by Confusion »

tzs wrote: post #25
sp332 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand your point. Surely people do pay for hosted storage, even when the code is available?

Looked at from the point of view of for-pay hosted storage, Github is astoundingly expensive. I have 94 megabytes of git repositories at work. Github would want $100/month to host that. If their software was all available and open source, I could host their software and my repositories on an $11/month Rackspace virtual machine, and still have about 7 gigabytes left over (or more realistically just stick it on a vhost…

They're not selling storage. They're selling an interface.

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

#40

Post by Confusion »

mtogo wrote: post #29
thedjpetersen wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with Github being completely open source is that no one would pay for the service part of it, which is the only way it can exist.

Which is why they charge insanely exorbitant prices for simple git hosting.

Their interface is not 'simple'. They don't sell 'simple git hosting'. That's making the same mistake that people make when they think they can code Reddit in a weekend.
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