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Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories by pilif on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:15AM (#11674526)
> This will affect enterprises - but then they're either already on Github Enterprise or are used to per user pricing anyway

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.

Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories by skywritergr on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:10AM (#11676027)
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 (#11678939)
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.
Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories by VLM on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:01AM (#11675324)
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.

Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories by bsimpson on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:03PM (#11679250)
Are the bug-only accounts reporting against your private repos? Public contributors are still free.