Announcing unlimited free private repos

Post by aarongray » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 4:57 AM UTC

closetCS wrote: post #543

markmark wrote: post #515

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It's tough when your competition can give away their product and fund it through their bottomless pockets and money they make on other products. I used to work for a great company in the developer tooling area, one of the big players came directly after us, ramped up a team, started copying our features and gave the product away for free. We were still doing well when I left, but it'll be interesting to see how it go…

This might be a naive comment, but isn't that predatory pricing. By dropping prices to zero and trying to purposely hurt your competitors, you effectively gain a monopoly on that industry.

Post by tfha » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 5:03 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #96

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).

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.

Post by mcs_ » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 5:10 AM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #190

A lot of people are concerned about the “what if they make me the product since I’m no longer paying.” A few reasons I don’t think that will happen: - private, single contributor repos tend to be pretty small. it costs Github very little to service a single account. - Github is a growing social network for developers. Getting young engineers on the platform for free will pay off handsomely when they join a team and a…

Post by jazoom » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 5:21 AM UTC

joshlambert wrote: post #585

jazoom wrote: post #462

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Can I remove old docker images from the registry yet? Heck, I still can't order by date, which should have been the default all along. Why would anyone want to see the images ordered alphabetically? It can take minutes to page through and find the most recent image buried among hundreds.

I'm sorry this has taken so long, but we are working on some foundational API's to manage and list images right now: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55978 . I've also added your feedback on sorting, thank you! We are also setting up a team to focus on just packaging related features within GitLab, like the Registry, which should improve our velocity in this area.

Post by mitgraduate » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 5:23 AM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #190

A lot of people are concerned about the “what if they make me the product since I’m no longer paying.” A few reasons I don’t think that will happen: - private, single contributor repos tend to be pretty small. it costs Github very little to service a single account. - Github is a growing social network for developers. Getting young engineers on the platform for free will pay off handsomely when they join a team and a…