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I'm really excited by this, but I'd love to hear some guidance on pricing. Is this for hacker shops like mine, or for the IBMs of the world?
I think it's for the IBMs of the world, that won't allow 3rd party hosted services... most small companies are fine with it.
“Killer apps makes or breaks any platform. With GitHub, I think the Git hub just scored one.” -DHH
Um. I know DHH is an important guy, but not only is that quote grammatically way out there, I don't think it makes any sense at all...
this is really cool, but I couldn't help but notice this quote: “Killer apps makes or breaks any platform. With GitHub, I think the Git hub just scored one.” -DHH Um. I know DHH is an important guy, but not only is that quote grammatically way out there, I don't think it makes any sense at all...
'Killer apps' make a platform. Lack of 'killer apps' break a platform. GitHub is Git community's (=hub) killer app.
The GitHub guys are just iterating and growing so fast. I'd hate to be SourceForge right about now (it seems to have caused the SF.net folks to wake up, though, as they've begun to improve at a very rapid clip). I ordinarily recommend folks not go the installable application route (even though our business is all installable based) if they can avoid it, but I think it definitely makes sense for GitHub. It's an area w…
Here's our launch post explaining FI: http://github.com/blog/441-launch-github-firewall-install
Although, my initial concern is how this is being spun to customers in terms of customization. One of my design clients is a SaaS vendor that had a large potential customer request an on-site deployment of their big product. Along with packaging up their software for a remote deployment, the customer was asking for all kinds of modifications to match up with their very particular needs. This was sort of spreading them thin on what they could work on for the customer and for the core product. So, my question is are you going to provide customization options for purchasers, or is the product just a rebuilt copy of whatever state the GitHub code is at? I'm a fan of what you guys have built, so I'd hate to see it suffer.
This is one of the main reasons that I'm not using Git at work, there hasn't been a super solid way to get the Github functionality on an internal network where it's 100% secure. This is a REALLY smart move for the guys at Github.
You can use Git without Github, you know.
How do you guys do code obfuscation and allow your service to be packaged into a downloadable, well, package? One of my startups is thinking about doing something of the sort, for academic institutions to throw our software on their own servers.
the best I've used so far is trac, but their git support were flaky when I last tested it (only ran well with svn at the time)
So roughly how much would this cost for a small team, say <10? I'm assuming far too much for me, since it's not visible anywhere, but I'm still curious :)
GitHub:FI was really built with large customers in mind, places with tens to hundreds of developers bridled with restrictions that prevent them from hosting their code on GitHub.com.
There's no reason smaller companies can't use it, but for the time being we want to dedicate more attention and support to fewer well-paying customers.
We may offer a pricing model in the future that's more affordable for smaller teams, but I can't state emphatically enough that if your team doesn't have the type of restrictions mentioned earlier, you should absolutely be using GitHub.com.