Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories
by skywritergr on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:10AM
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It sounds like it would be a big help if github offered unlimited read-only/bot accounts. Not sure how technically feasible is that but it doesn't sound impossible.
Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories
by tomschlick on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:27PM
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Or as someone mentioned above, if they went the Slack route of not charging for users who don't push/pull code in a 30/60 day period. That way you could still have collaborator users (issues, PRs, etc) and only pay for the users who actually code.
There is the threshold effect to consider also.
Maintaining a gitlab instance is kind of ridiculous vs $300/yr.
On the other hand, its not exactly rocket surgery and $1300/yr would probably cover it.
So its not a theoretical issue in an isolated abstract sense but market position issue. The competition isn't the employee lunch fund but is actual competitors.
Aside from maintaining your own instance, I have no experience or contact with them but githost.io offers quite a bit for less than $100/month.
my organization currently contains 15 github users. 2 of which are used by error reporting tools to open bugs (Sentry, Crashlytics), one of which is used by Jenkins, 3 of which are outside contractor for which github now will get the money multiple times as companies move to the same billing method.
We had 9 repos on github (and about 20 smaller ones with less collaboration on a self-hoste gitolite installation), so we paid $300 per year.
Now I have unlimited repos of which I still only use 9, but now I pay $1300 per year, whereby 3 of these accounts I'm paying for aren't actually real people and another 3 of these accounts I'm paying for even though multiple other companies are also paying for them.
Aside of the nearly 5x increase in price, I think it's also unfair having to pay for practically unused bug-reporting-only accounts and having to pay for accounts that are already paid for by a multitude of other companies.
I don't think this is good pricing for me.
Also as this isn't just a moderate increase, but a whopping 5x increase, I also strongly consider moving back away to a self-hosted solution because increasing the price by 5x is breaking the trust put into github as a third-party provider.
Increasing the price a bit is fine. But 5x is excessive.