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Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by m-watson »

FooBarWidget wrote: post #229
bepotts wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always believed Microsoft saw GitHub as a potential "in" for millions of developers, rather than a product that could generate revenue. This move doesn't worry me, as I'm sure Microsoft would look to do something easy to calm the nerves of people who worried about Microsoft's acquisition. The cynic in me sees this as sweetener for Microsoft's later moves to integrate GitHub with Microsoft's developer tools, which w…

Why would better integration between Github and Microsoft dev tools be a bad thing?

Not OP but I think some people think that Microsoft might make it more difficult to use other services with GitHub rather than just streamline it for Microsoft. I don't think strengthening Microsoft + GitHub integration is a problem and is probably smart for them to do. They just should not and probably won't make it prohibitively difficult to integrate with say AWS or GCP.

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Post by bepotts »

FooBarWidget wrote: post #229
bepotts wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always believed Microsoft saw GitHub as a potential "in" for millions of developers, rather than a product that could generate revenue. This move doesn't worry me, as I'm sure Microsoft would look to do something easy to calm the nerves of people who worried about Microsoft's acquisition. The cynic in me sees this as sweetener for Microsoft's later moves to integrate GitHub with Microsoft's developer tools, which w…

Why would better integration between Github and Microsoft dev tools be a bad thing?

Because I want GitHub to be agnostic and not pushing me towards anything?

This was always one of the core worries about GitHub and Microsoft. Microsoft will not leave GitHub alone. It's too important to developers, and no matter how much they say "we won't touch GitHub", nobody (rightfully) will believe them.

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Post by Kadin »

jMyles wrote: post #251
Joeri wrote: post #233

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Microsoft has both linkedin and github, meaning they have the social graph of the government, business and the technology spheres. That social graph is arguably even more valuable in terms of revenue opportunities than facebook's. Direct revenue of linkedin and github might as well be irrelevant.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm thinking. So, what's their social graph play?

I don't think this is a "social graph play". I think it's about them realizing that the small amount of revenue they get from individual subscriptions is worth less than the free advertising/marketing they get by making it free for individuals, and then letting developers advocate for GH inside organizations which end up buying Enterprise licenses.

This is more about getting people to use (or keep using) GitHub for their personal projects so that it seems like a natural/obvious/default choice for a bigger-budget project, and that's where the revenue is.

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Post by laurentl »

Zamicol wrote: post #31
TheRealWatson wrote: post #21

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I have zero insight on this but I also don't know anyone in my circle who pays individually for Github... When they need that, they use Bitbucket. I know several people I worked for or did business with that paid for Organization accounts, from Team to Enterprise.

It sounds like recently they sorted things out, but Bitbucket's interface was buggy to the point of unusability for me. Some scary permission issues like not being removed from a corporate team.

Bitbucket’s website is slow as hell. I actually physically cringe when I have to do something through the website (e.g. create a pull request) because I know I’ll be staring at slow-loading pages for the next 5 minutes, even for something that’s 3 clicks away.

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Post by phillc73 »

freehunter wrote: post #56
balls187 wrote: post #38

This is a smart move. Gives developers who have small indy projects a reason to use Github rather than a competitor (I know I use gitlab precisely because it's free for my private one-off repos).

I actually switched from Github to Gitlab about two months ago just for this reason. I bootstrap my company from my own pocket and wanted to save a few dollars every month. Really wish I knew this was coming before I deleted the repos and migrated everything. edit -- to everyone asking, I have no problems with Gitlab and I also have no strong preference Gitlab vs Github, they both perform the same role for me in exac…

How does this change by Github make you regret migrating to Gitlab? Do you think Gitlab's offering is in some ways inferior?

I mirrored everything to Gitlab sometime ago, for public repositories and also use them for private repositories. The only real advantage I could specifically name for Github is the organic contribution factor due to their volume of traffic. However, this doesn't really apply to private repositories.

Edit: I see this has been answered below now - time spent migrating.

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Post by sailingparrot »

bravura wrote: post #106

"Private repositories on free accounts are limited to three collaborators apiece." So let's be clear here. If I have 10 private repos, I can have 30 collaborators? Or they must be the same three.

They don't have to be the same. Any "team" working on a private repo cannot be bigger than 3 collaborators.

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Post by strig »

hellofunk wrote: post #249
StavrosK wrote: post #96

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My move to Gitlab was basically "come for the free repos, stay for the rest of the amazing features". I will not be moving off it, and my new repos will keep being on Gitlab.

What features of Gitlab do you prefer?

Not the OP but I really like the free CI and container registry.

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Post by jcolella »

stupidcar wrote: post #60

One of the best uses of GitHub is being able to search for some obscure framework method name or enum constant, and find examples of working code that uses it. This has saved my life many times when trying to figure out how to configure Java frameworks to interact with each other. When searching for this kind of code, you have to wade through an awful lot of repos containing half-baked personal projects, experiments,…

I cannot agree more with this. I love being able to search and see how libraries are being used in real life projects. It definitely helps.
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