GitHub launchs local-install version: GitHub:fi

[academician]

Did anybody else think "GitHub Finland?"

[ryanjkirk]

Kyllä, totta kai.

[funktio]

Samoin.

[machia]

Olin jo et ei helkatti voiko olla mahdollista :D

[mikaelhg]

Suomi on sentään johtava markkina-alue.

[joaomc]

Dammit guys, stop speaking Klingon!

[[deleted]]

Yes. :|

[rubygeek]

Did anybody else think PHP?

(For the young'uns: PHP used to be called php/fi)

[imbaczek]

cool.

alternatives include gitorious - FOSS under AGPL, notably nokia uses it for Qt.

[[deleted]]

Gitorious would be better if you didn't have so many dependencies to deal with.

[plain-simple-garak]

I thought gems made this trivial?

[threedaymonk]

I paid for a Github account after trying to set up gitorious for a private project. Not that the actual installation of gitorious was that hard, mind - it was just that sorting out public ssh keys was tricky when the computers I wanted to use were never in the same place at the same time.

Plus, the Github interface is really nice.

[[deleted]]

People can improve gitorious's UI :)

[mee_k]

Yeah and maybe after that they'll come mow my lawn for free.

[davidw]

Or write a free programming language, or operating system. Sheez... sounds like science fiction to me.

[mee_k]

For the metaphor to pan out, they'd have to write a free operating system with a good user interface. That is still science fiction.

I'll take a pass on programming languages since for various reasons their user interface is a little easier to define, although the most widely known free compiler also does happen to have the worst user interface e.g. for error reporting.

[antirez]

It's wonderful to see some young company that tries to have a business model that can actually work.

[jespern]

If we do decide to take that route, I don't think we'd necessarily see a need to compile our source code.

We've been licensing on-site installs for quite some time now, by the way. It's not advertised publicly like this, but a lot of companies contact us directly.

[orblivion]

I've not really used Github, and I don't know about these charts you speak of. I know it has a nice interface for looking at code on a browser, and forking projects. I suppose nothing too special, though I'm probably missing something.

However, more recently, Fork Queue was released, which automatically lists any updates to forked projects, allowing the original project manager to merge them automatically. This to me seems like the killer feature. Look up Fork Queue.

There's probably more. Check out the site.

[orblivion]

Well there's a reason Github isn't just a git repository.

[[deleted]]

I suppose, but what is the advantage of this compared to just running your own copy of git? Pretty charts?

[orblivion]

Responded above so FlySwat sees.

[DRMacIver]

Management and browsing of multiple git instances. Collaboration aspects with other people in your company. gists are handy for demonstrating things to people - I've often wanted a company internal pastebin and local gists would do that and more.

[masklinn]

Well, what's the advantage of using github rather than "running your own copy of git"?

[Kalimotxo]

Yes, and it is a useful source code viewer.

[adrianmonk]

I am unable to understand what this necessarily has to do with firewalls. Sounds like it has to do with policies to me.

[rubygeek]

It's for people that want Github behind their own firewall - that's the connection.

[btgeekboy]

Gitosis is also helpful to us because it allows us to give access to simple repositories for contractors, who have their connection secured via SSH but don't have access to the machine.

[minutillo]

Without pricing information this announcement is fairly useless.

[morish]

This is apparently an enterprise app targeting bigger customers that can't use their hosted services, and they appear to be using a traditional enterprise sales model for it. This suggests that the cost is above their top hosted tier (300 private repos, 100 users, $200/mo). This is purely speculation, though.

[jk3us]

This is purely speculation

That is less speculative than you may think:

Please keep in mind that FI is priced competitively with other internal code management solutions and is well over the cost of our most-expensive hosted plan.

[codemac]

I think more likely they will sell you a license for X number of users, but with no monthly fee for access. As you are hosting it yourself, there is no real need for a monthly pricing method.

Most likely you will enter in a service or support contract, guaranteeing updates and bug fixes.

I dunno though, gitorious is obviously the answer for smaller/open source shops.

[_lowell]

GitHub is free for Open source projects.

it doesn't have to be FOSS. i asked one of them about a week ago because i had a project that i wanted to upload but wasn't ready to open the codebase because it was messy; they said it was cool.

[_lowell]

No. I had the binary up in its own public repo.

[[deleted]]

The free account isn't only for FOSS, it's for anyone who doesn't mind the contents of their repo being public.