Are the "PRO" badges that have been showing up on Github profiles today in any way related to this?
Yes, they indicate paying customers.
Ah! I’d forgotten that I had a “paying account” through some educational promotion.
Announcing unlimited free private repos
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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos
#552Earlier quoted context omitted.
> private, single contributor repos tend to be pretty small. Free is pretty cheap though. Is there going to be a size limit? If not I can see people uploading all sorts of "interesting" data to github.
There's a 1GB soft repo size limit and 100MB file size limit. I assume they will detect abuse & terminate violating accounts.
Thanks, I looked for that and didn't find it.
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#553For those of you using GitLab, BitBucket, or , does this make you consider switching back at all? If so, why? It may be myopic, but the only major reason I can think of is visibility if you plan on publicizing the repo at some point. But you can achieve this by using GitHub as a mirror for your main repo on another platform (at least for GitLab, I’m not familiar with BitBucket). Edit: Personally, I use GitLab (both .…
Gitlab is vastly better in so many different ways that this doesn't even come close to making me want to switch back.
The UI needs some love but I've been impressed with the feature set.
I would definitely choose it over GitHub Enterprise.
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#554Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is - hosting repos, especially private ones, is not a 'complementary service' for Github. It's the core of their offer. Edit: example - Google paying for Chrome, Android - this is 'complementary'. Google giving away free personal ads on search ... 'core'. MSFT giving away free dev tools, Bing search - complementary. Giving away 'Windows Home' for free ... 'core'.
Github's core offering is not small private repos with max 3 contributors.
But it isn't a complement either. This is a classic loss leader.
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#555Cool, immediately downgraded to free account. Any chance of refunds for the last 6 months I was forced to pay?
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#556Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, Microsoft realized that long ago. Gates and Balmer prolonged the inevitable through monopoly power, but Nadella has accepted the future and is "turning the aircraft carrier." It's amazing that Microsoft came back to life from being a zombie company. In hindsight, it was such a large zombie that it had sufficient time to change business models. Somehow Sears wasn't. There's a business school case study and tenure…
Sears seemed to be intentionally run into the ground so that Eddie Lampert could loot the assets: https://prospect.org/article/how-sears-was-gutted-its-own-ce...
Whatever bad things you can say about Ballmer, he wasn't out to gut Microsoft. He simply made decisions that were short-sighted and insular. Well, and the review system (which caused a bunch of good people to leave for Google in Kirkland, and some other places).
Once, I was doing an embedded system for a consumer product in the Xbox group. We started out trying to using Windows CE, and after three months of pushing that horrible mess up a hill [holy Toledo, what a steaming pile...] we ditched it in favor of something really simple that could actually do the job, instead of the politically correct thing that we'd been "encouraged" to do. (Honestly, words fail me at how badly designed and buggy the the whole WinCE code base was).
At the time, Ballmer was all about everything having to be Windows. "Windows Foundation" for TV, "Windows Auto", Windows This-and-That. I joked that we wouldn't be allowed to ship our firmware until we named it something like "Windows Just An Event Loop And Some Interrupt Handlers".
Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos
#557In case anyone's curious about mirroring Github Gitlab, there's a doc page[0] for it.
[0] http://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/repository_mirroring.html
Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos
#558Am I the only person who thinks this isn't a big deal? Honestly get is not a personal storage space, it's capped at 1GB.
As a service anything I build privately will need more than three collaborators. Especially for things which are traditionally kept secret like academic software.
Maybe this might help freelancers but proliferationf private repos with very few contributors is an anti pattern.
Gitlab is still the clear winner for private use while Github remains the most active for public repos.
Nothing has changed.
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#559While I think this is a great move, don't forget that private repos also means no more free Travis CI. Gitlab CI however offers 2,000 build minutes a month with their integrated CI service. Even if your whole set up takes 10 minutes to build on CI, that's 200 builds a month which is plenty for an individual project that's on a private repo. In other words, I think Gitlab's free private repos + CI is still a better ch…
Free private repos are important for experimental development.
Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos
#560In case anyone's curious about mirroring Github Gitlab, there's a doc page[0] for it. [0] http://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/repository_mirroring.html
This is what I do for anything I make that I think would be easier to find on GitHub. And vice versa for my own build tools so I can accumulate the projects I use from GH under one group on GitLab.