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> 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
by pilif 10y ago
> 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.
- VLM 10y agoThere 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.
- skywritergr 10y agoIt 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.
- tomschlick 10y agoOr 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.
- bsimpson 10y agoAre the bug-only accounts reporting against your private repos? Public contributors are still free.