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Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by bsnape »

WillAbides wrote: post #354
bsnape wrote: post #165

This has almost quadrupled our monthly cost ($850 vs $2914). We have ~300 users which will have to be reduced massively to save costs - perhaps with non-engineers sharing accounts or having no access at all. I'm not sure if charging per user is really in the spirit of open collaboration that GitHub champions. I slo wonder if charging per user rather than per repo will also discourage the creation of open-source repos…

> This has almost quadrupled our monthly cost ($850 vs $2914) Has it really? Existing orgs aren't being forced to change, and on top of that they say they will give at least 12 months notice if they decide to force existing orgs into new pricing.

Sorry, yes, will change in 12 months time. I'm sure they will force the new pricing structure then (and that's cool).

Billing screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/k1F0BxA.png

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by mindcrime »

hunvreus wrote: post #153
nxzero wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compared to products like Salesforce, GitHub seems cheap to me. What to you is a fair price and why?

As stated at the end of my comment, a fair price is what they decide to charge. I simply don't like people to try and spin a price increase into a freebie.

It's not like it's a unilateral "price increase". My bill, for example, will be going down as a result of this. Personally I'm pretty stoked about this change. YMMV.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by tedmiston »

arnvald wrote: post #40

A small comparison: Team | Cost Before | Cost Now 1 repo, 5 users | $25 | $25 1 repo, 10 users | $25 | $70 11 repos, 5 users | $50 | $25 11 repos, 10 users | $50 | $70 5 repos, 50 users | $25 | $430 50 repos, 5 users | $100 | $25 50 repos, 50 users | $100 | $430 I'm not sure how common are organizations with few users and large number of repose - I guess software houses that keep old projects (for maintenance and fut…

Any company with 5-10 users, has at least 5-10 repos if they're structuring things properly. That said, I prefer self-hosted GitLab (free) when there are a large number of repos.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by stonedge »

WillAbides wrote: post #352
krstck wrote: post #348

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their nonprofit accounts are designed for "nonacademic" orgs. If there's an account type that's applicable to university research (not just students) then I'd be thrilled.

Check the bottom of this page [0] and prepare to be thrilled. [0] https://education.github.com/

This is only for the teaching/student aspect of academia. There's the whole business side of academia which is still a non-profit, still doesn't have any money, but for which the academic stuff doesn't apply.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by eightbit »

biztos wrote: post #247

I find it interesting that so many people here are unhappy with the change. Sure, prices will go up for a lot of organizations, but is $9/worker/month really a lot to pay for all the stuff GitHub offers? At Bay Area prices isn't that about 5 minutes of developer pay per month? For independent use it seems like a very positive change, in fact I'm guessing it's a direct challenge to GitLab. I was considering moving my…

> but is $9/worker/month really a lot to pay for all the stuff GitHub offers?

You make it sound like they're curing cancer. What does GitHub really offer above and beyond the other providers?

As an example, their PR reviewing systems sucks balls. It chokes on larger PRs (250 files!? Really?). Also, with files which have been essentially replaced, the diff can become so large that GitHub won't even show it, and since you can only add comments on PRs, you're sunk. I have to resort to sending around emails with code lines and comments on them.

GitHub is amateur hour. Their half-assed implementations of almost every piece of their functionality reminds me of the same BS Apple does on iOS.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by bsnape »

Etheryte wrote: post #214
bsnape wrote: post #165

This has almost quadrupled our monthly cost ($850 vs $2914). We have ~300 users which will have to be reduced massively to save costs - perhaps with non-engineers sharing accounts or having no access at all. I'm not sure if charging per user is really in the spirit of open collaboration that GitHub champions. I slo wonder if charging per user rather than per repo will also discourage the creation of open-source repos…

If you already invest into this monthly, why don't you just have GitLab on premise?

We like to use hosted services rather than host them on-prem where possible (AWS, Artifactory, Slack, GitHub).

For the size of our company we have relatively few engineers. Not hosting things ourselves increases our productivity and we can concentrate on our own products :-)

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by mindcrime »

arnvald wrote: post #40

A small comparison: Team | Cost Before | Cost Now 1 repo, 5 users | $25 | $25 1 repo, 10 users | $25 | $70 11 repos, 5 users | $50 | $25 11 repos, 10 users | $50 | $70 5 repos, 50 users | $25 | $430 50 repos, 5 users | $100 | $25 50 repos, 50 users | $100 | $430 I'm not sure how common are organizations with few users and large number of repose - I guess software houses that keep old projects (for maintenance and fut…

I'm not sure how common are organizations with few users and large number of repos

My feeling is that this is VERY common. Most of the software companies I've worked for had between 5-25 people, max, who would need github access. But if you break things up in a granular fashion repo-wise, you can easily have dozens or more repos.

In my own case, we only have about 5 people who need access, but we're already sitting on a bunch of repos and will be needing more soon'ish. I was just debating about if/when to upgrade to the next plan level w/ github, and now I don't have to.

Obviously different companies have different scenarios, but this is a win for us, and I expect it's a win for a lot of other organizations as well.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by mikey_p »

I think this is great. I'm part of a small 2-person consultancy (my wife and I) and we've been abusing a user account for our business for sometime on the 'medium' plan since it would give us 20 private repos, although over the last 6 years, we're had to cycle stuff to backups, rotate it around in order to keep older client work in there.

It's been hard to justify upgrading to an organization for awhile, since our work is hit or miss and we both have other jobs form time to time. We aren't much in terms of load on Github, but we'd like to be able to store 40-50 private repos or add more without worrying about our limit. The new organization pricing makes tons of sense for us since it's very close to the old 'medium' plan we were using, instead of being 2.5 times as much, which we never felt we could justify.

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