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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by matthewjhughes on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:21PM (#18847295)
I'm the author of this post. The article has been updated to clarify that I accidentally published it one day before the embargo lifted. GitHub will formally announce the news tomorrow.
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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by niij on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:55PM (#18847809)
I would've deleted it as soon as you noticed. Might not have stopped people from noticing (nothing on the internet is ever deleted blah blah), but might have improved the optics a bit.
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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by godot on Monday January 07, 2019 @01:13PM (#18848077)
I am also curious why he didn't remove the post as soon as he noticed? Does TNW have policies regarding published stories not being removed?
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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by duncanawoods on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:26PM (#18847374)
Confusingly it is also dated on the 5th making it look like it should have been announced yesterday...
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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by matthewjhughes on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:29PM (#18847432)
Yeah, I know. For some reason, when you put a past date in Wordpress and press "schedule," it publishes the article automatically. That's all this was -- a typo.
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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by LyndsySimon on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:33PM (#18847481)
That's really unfortunate :(

I'd be interested to see if you do a post-mortem on this - what the consequences were, and what steps you end up taking to ensure that it doesn't happen again.

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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by SomeHacker44 on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:44PM (#18847659)
The upshot may well be that this gentleman and/or this publication no longer receives embargoed information anymore, at least for a time.
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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by LyndsySimon on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:38PM (#18849132)
I don't know if that's an "upshot", but I'd be interested to know if that happens.

One way to help ensure that it doesn't happen is to take steps to prevent it and post a post-mortem explaining both what caused it to happen and why it won't in the future.

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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by zuck9 on Monday January 07, 2019 @01:17PM (#18848133)
GitHub should publish the post today after noticing this and remove the embargo for other publications.
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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by codazoda on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:10PM (#18850118)
The news is now public.

https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/

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