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Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by Xylakant »

giovannibajo1 wrote: post #63
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…

Even for software houses, it's VERY problematic as we add customers to projects as external collaborators and we're going to get billed for that forever, even if most customers have very light usage, and even for non active projects. I was thrilled by this news but it's going to be completely unaffordable for us. We have 29 users and 51 external collaborators. We have recently upgraded to the Platinum plan ($2460/yr)…

we're in the same situation. I'm looking at at least a tenfold increase. All of a sudden self hosting a gitlab instance looks cost-efficient.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by hvidgaard »

marcosscriven wrote: post #41
Ghostium wrote: post #10

Hmm, I still will use Gitlab instead of Github. Unlimited public and private repos for free is nice.

Does anyone know how Gitlab plan to sustain that?

For the vast majority of users the repos use almost zero ressources except for some tiny amount of space - limiting the amount you can have is artificial. Many repositories is no different than facebooks mega repository pattern, but that is allowed, so why not give the customers what they want? If they want a "sustainable model" they'd have to set an upper limit on space and reqs/day.

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Post by stephenr »

marcosscriven wrote: post #41
Ghostium wrote: post #10

Hmm, I still will use Gitlab instead of Github. Unlimited public and private repos for free is nice.

Does anyone know how Gitlab plan to sustain that?

They basically use the hosted environment to get a better understanding of how their software runs at scale, so they can improve it.

It's all funded by enterprise licenses.

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Post by arnvald »

thesimon wrote: post #65
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 guess software houses that keep old projects (for maintenance and future requests from clients) fall into this category, but who else? Companies using micro services? Companies that don't want to have one big repository for their software?

Good point. Also, before having 1 repository was a way to avoid higher bill. Now it'd require to have just 1 user which I doubt anyone will try to do.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by petetnt »

gelatocar wrote: post #62

What 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.

Make "Epic Games" a personal account and add everyone as collabs and it's 7 bucks a month, down from 25?

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Post by Scea91 »

Aissen wrote: post #68

I know a lot of companies that are too cheap to pay for hosting (or even host in-house), and therefore use bitbucket with its unlimited private repos. It's their gateway drug, and once they get used to that, good luck having them move over to github.

Why use the derogaroty 'too cheap'? Maybe they are just not 'too stupid' to pay more than they have to.

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

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…

But to me this makes sense - one naturally will have more repos than developers, and as it is costly to add a developer to your team, but adding a repo is a command line, then making cost a function of developers seems to align most software teams with githubs incentives.

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Post by bufordsharkley »

Have been using Github for a community radio station, have been encouraging all staffers to use github accounts to file issues against our private repos, etc. The friendly policies for many collaborators have made this attractive, even though most users have rarely interacted with the repos, if at all.

Now each user for the private repo has a significant cost (pretty significant for a non-profit community radio station); looks like we'll have to rethink this whole Github thing.

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