The price change for large organizations is insane. If you have a private repo with 100 collaborators it will cost you $10800 pr year.
We have 300+ users and 70+ repo's. (Everyone in the company have access to github for internal open source projects etc). We are now looking at $30 000 pr year...
The only way I see this new plan viable is if they only count active users (with commits) each month.
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#292This change actually saved me a lot of money per month. We use micro-service architecture and furthermore do consulting work so we had a Platinum level plan with only 7 people with access. This greatly improved our billing situation.
Although I can very much see how it could go the other way.
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#293I find it quite hard to comprehend why people use Github for private repositories. There are many free alternatives. BitBucket seems to be the famous one, but Gitlab has grown into an amazing product with 3 different offerings; On premise community edition, on premise enterprise and hosted (like Github).
We have used the on premise community edition for about 3 years now. I first installed it when you had to run about a billion commands manually and it was great even then. Now you can install it with an apt-get and a few lines.
Lets not forget about the obvious negatives of Github (ignoring pricing).
1) Its hosted which means it can go down 2) It is closed source 3) Feature based is quite small (compared to Gitlab)
Gitlab is a regular release cycle, once a month which always comes with new features.
I personally think it is a no brainer.
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#2941. Take a gazillion dollars in funding on an over-hyped valuation, 2. Go through significant organizational changes that end up with the departure of a co-founder (and more suits in the building). 3. Notice that a significant segment of your growth (VC-funded startups) are running out of money. 4. Switch to a user-based pricing to generate more revenue for investors, but spin it as a freebie "Hey! Look at the cool un…
> But I'd appreciate if their PR department didn't expect us to swallow this as a positive change. I don't have any numbers on how people structure their accounts on Github, but my feeling is that this is a positive change for the majority of Github users. Git encourages having many smaller repos for modules over massive single repos. $1/repo/month is fine for active projects, but gets expensive really fast if you wa…
Wow, you actually just made me think of something that could have been a great change for GitHub.
Rather than completely limiting private repos in their old pricing model, they could have limited "active" repos, and created an archive feature, where archived repos were not available via Git, but still existed as backups and in case you ever wanted to make them active again.
I do, however, believe that the new, per-user pricing is more sustainable. File storage is rather cheap; running Git pull / push is not necessarily.
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#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work for a non-profit open source organization that collaborates on github ( https://github.com/edx/ ) We have lots of people who aren't employees, but have signed a contributor agreement with our organization and contribute changes to our software. Our bill will go up from $200/month to over $2000/month with this new pricing. We can afford it (it's still a small fraction of our AWS bill) but it will force us to lo…
If you are a non-profit, your bill can be $0. You just need to sign up here[0] and send in the data requested. [0] https://github.com/nonprofit
It doesn't seem this is valid for academic nonprofits (from the linked page) so I don't think EdX would qualify.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
Certainly appreciate your question around pricing for non-profits here - have you applied for non-profit status through GitHub? We do have discounts to support eligible non-profit organizations, and you can request the discount at https://github.com/nonprofit . Feel free to reach out to Support ( https://github.com/c ) if you have any further questions around this!
Out of interest, why do you require charities to have no religious affiliation at all? Perhaps there's some US tax or legal aspect to it? At at first glance from overseas, it seems oddly churlish and monoculturalist (dare I say "fearful of the prayerful") to disallow community groups and charities where actually yes their beliefs did prompt them to step out in service, and they are not ashamed of that. I can't imagin…
I never noticed that before.. I like the "nonpolitical" one as well, pretty vague in my opinion.
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#297What about companies like Epic Games that have few repos but many users? With their 2 private UnrealEngine and UnrealTournament repos they would have been paying $25 a month and under the new pricing structure will have to pay $815,913 per month... edit: That's based on what I can see as a UE4 subscriber, 2 private repos and 90657 users.
We are reaching out to customers that are in unique situations such as the one you're mentioning here. If you have questions about how the pricing changes affect you, please don’t hesitate to contact support@github.com.
It is interesting that - this change will force organizations to pay for "bot" users - that exist for deployment/notifications etc. Our payment bill just doubled from $50 to $106 now (including the bot accounts).
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#298To me this is a good change, I have lots of private repositories and a small team.
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#299Github is... adopting the old Visual Studio logo?
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#300But why should I use Github over Gitlab? I don't care about popularity, Gitlab already offers the minimal set of features I care about, and has demonstrated a neutral business model.
Github had leaks coming out about how 'white men' aren't suitable to solve GH's business problems, why should I want to associate with an organization that discriminates people based on the color of their skin rather than by the contents of their code?
I'm glad that they are offering this, I think their customers will put this offering to good use, but it doesn't convince me.