We have a large number of people in our organization who have GitHub access who do not code and instead file or manage tickets. $9 a month just to be able to file a ticket is rather steep.
Introducing unlimited private repositories
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Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories
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Per repo pricing was why we didn't go with github. Atlassian was our only option till we shopped around till we found Visual Studio Team Services. For a team of 4. Simply great. No need to pay for Jira or anything at this point. Now, I won't go back to github even if it was completely free. The value Atlassian gives makes it a much better and attractive offering if you don't like Microsoft.
All the production code here is on BitBucket. Forcing users to pay for privacy has always stuck in my throat as a business model. I think this change is due to GitHub feeling some heat from Atlassian and GitLab.
I have a lot of half-finished projects kicking around that I would love to start on github, but I'm concerned about privacy and it certainly isn't worth it to me to pay $7/mo rather than keeping them on my Dropbox.
I haven't checked out BitBucket as I kind of thought GitHub was the only game in town, but will check it out. Would be nice to get these projects off my machine but not make them public.
edit: ohh and I'm just starting on BitBucket and it both imports from Git directly and defaults to private. Awesome.
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#303What 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.
Epic Games could just move to BitBucket, where you get Unlimited Users for $200/mo.
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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.
That's right. I didn't notice it was academic. GitHub has a similar deal for education[0]. The bottom of the page has a link to apply for a free educational org.
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You mean... you don't like it when the marketing department of a profit-making enterprise does marketing in an attempt to make more profit? I work in a small agency, and our GitHub bill will go down as a result of these changes.
Yes, that type of "marketing". It's bullshit.
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you are non profit and open source do you really need private repos?
In a non-profit that I collaborate with [1] we use private repos to keep the server setup and some tickets that contain sensitive information (user data). All other code is open source. Obviously we don't want to keep api keys etc. in the public repos. [1] https://github.com/sozialhelden/wheelmap
> we use private repos ... that contain sensitive information (user data).
Wait, what?
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
> GitHub seems cheap to me At $9/user/mo, github is 900% more expensive than the $1/user/mo direct competitor BitBucket. BitBucket uses brackets rather than pure scaling, but their most expensive option - 101 users require the $200 unlimited accounts plan - is still only $2/user.
It's actually 2500% more expensive for the first 5 users. Github will never learn.
I think for the first five users the price is capped at $25 total ($5/user).
Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories
#308I hope this doesn't lead to less open sourced software. Since it will be easier to keep your code private.
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#309Definitely cool, but I honestly think that if your organisation needs more than a handful of repositories then it's very likely doing something wrong.
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#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
> GitHub seems cheap to me At $9/user/mo, github is 900% more expensive than the $1/user/mo direct competitor BitBucket. BitBucket uses brackets rather than pure scaling, but their most expensive option - 101 users require the $200 unlimited accounts plan - is still only $2/user.
I don't know who gives them advice, but that's just horrible. First, people ran to bitbucket visit if the per repo pricing. Now that that's been fixed, we're faced with high costs per user. That difference can be used to purchase other Atlassian products like Jira and Bamboo. How can github beat that value? I think github is satisfied with bring #1 for hosting open source software.
god beware if your open source project needs a single private repository to share passwords between admins for example or private config for your webserver. Suddenly you see yourself at 394$ compared to the 7$ you paid before.