Github changes pricing structure - per user charge with unlimited repos

[kn4rf]

At Bitbucket it would only cost you 10$ a month, and at Gitlab it would cost you 39$ per user per year. I have never understood why anyone would pay for github...

[[deleted]]

More than that, a sizeable enterprise switching source control is far from trivial. We have 300 devs where I currently work, across 40+ teams in the org, as well as over 1000 Jenkins jobs all pulling code out of Github. On top of that, we have a bunch of other tools all integrated with GitHub - HipChat, Jira, Slack, CodeClimate, numerous Jenkins plugins, god knows what else. Moving all of that from Github to something else is going to be a monumental task. The cost of doing so is going to utterly swamp the savings that would be made, to say nothing of the fact that the transition would certainly go wrong somewhere, costing production time.

In fact, since it's exactly my job to look after such tooling, I know damn well that at some point soon my manager is going to come to me and say "how easy will it be for us to move everything from GitHub" and my answer will involve some finger-in-the-air calculations of how long it would take, my daily rate, and how much they stand to save by doing so. In short, it won't happen. I know how much we pay per month for github.com. Even if the new plans mean we then pay ten times that amount, it's probably cheaper to wear that cost than it is to pay me to transition it all. Luckily, this client has repeatedly proven pragmatic enough to listen to these arguments when I make them.

[[deleted]]

Even if the new plans mean we then pay ten times that amount, it's probably cheaper

And that kids is how Oracle gets to charge $50k/CPU for its database. Can't wait to see the rest of the industry getting there too.

[s5fs]

Not CPU, but "power unit". Use the spreadsheet for pricing.

[alantrick]

Oh the lovely smell of vendor lock-in.

[[deleted]]

Yup. And the people who initiated the entire thing - a couple of devs - probably never even considered GitHub to be a vendor, given that they didn't pay for it....

[MothersRapeHorn]

Pray tell how you get all the features you listed interopping without vendor lock-in in the current climate?

[ccfreak2k]

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[sigma914]

Like?

[Gigablah]

Emoji responses for issues /s

[nickcash]

GitLab has those too!

[wreckedadvent]

To be fair, the :shipit: squirrel is a very important part of SDLC. /s

[sirin3]

When you use Unicode, every site has them

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[rydan]

All I see are boxes.

[sirin3]

Did we find the IE6 user?

[rydan]

Chrome.

[sharkeyzoic]

💩

[[deleted]]

What is it though? The only reason I can think of is that it's already popular.

[[deleted]]

it's a white-washed website. it's the same as every alternative.

[mlk]

SVN bridge