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"GitHub quickly became essential to the code-writing process at technology companies of all sizes and gave birth to a new generation of programmers by hosting t

"GitHub quickly became essential to the code-writing process at technology companies of all sizes and gave birth to a new generation of programmers by hosting their open-source code for free." How much would you be willing to pay to store your open-source code at github?

wcummings 10y ago
$0
cyphar 10y ago
$0. I would consider paying ~$30/mo for GitLab though, because it's free (as in freedom) software.
- romanovcode 10y ago
  Agree, I would not mind paying for Gitlab private repos some sum of money (probably not 30/mo tho). Gitlab is superior in every possible way than Github except for it's speed.
  - cyphar 10y ago
    I'd pay for public repos (I don't need private repos, all of my code is free software). In fact, I would _donate_ $30/mo to GitLab if I used their services enough (unfortunately the projects I maintain live on GitHub and I don't have the authority to change that). I have no problem donating to free software (I donate $10/mo to Neovim, $10 to SirCmpwn (sway), and other bits and bobs here and there -- as well as donating my time to openSUSE, runC and the OCI). The only condition is that I have to use it enough that I feel that they are owed some money to make the software even better.
  - sytse 10y ago
    I hear you. GitLab self hosted is fast but GitLab.com is too slow. From Monday we're having a daily 50 minute call to coordinate our efforts around https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly We'll try to reduce IOPS and make GitLab.com fast.
acd10j 10y ago
Github Open source Hosting should be supported by donation model like Wikipedia. Where people and organisations who host code can donate in the foundation. This will remove major threat from it's existence. I would surely donate.
- bootload 10y ago
  "Github Open source Hosting should be supported by donation model like Wikipedia." That's why I asked the Q. Seems strange that large FOSS projects are hosted but no effort by github made to get some return.
  - h1d 10y ago
    Everyone flocking to use GitHub, is the return.
    - bootload 10y ago
      "Everyone flocking to use GitHub" Infrastructure costs dollars. Everyone uses it puts more pressure on the uptime. Is GitHub as big (as much money to splash around) as google?

wcummings 10y ago

cyphar 10y ago

$0. I would consider paying ~$30/mo for GitLab though, because it's free (as in freedom) software.

romanovcode 10y ago
Agree, I would not mind paying for Gitlab private repos some sum of money (probably not 30/mo tho). Gitlab is superior in every possible way than Github except for it's speed.
- cyphar 10y ago
  I'd pay for public repos (I don't need private repos, all of my code is free software). In fact, I would _donate_ $30/mo to GitLab if I used their services enough (unfortunately the projects I maintain live on GitHub and I don't have the authority to change that). I have no problem donating to free software (I donate $10/mo to Neovim, $10 to SirCmpwn (sway), and other bits and bobs here and there -- as well as donating my time to openSUSE, runC and the OCI). The only condition is that I have to use it enough that I feel that they are owed some money to make the software even better.
- sytse 10y ago
  I hear you. GitLab self hosted is fast but GitLab.com is too slow. From Monday we're having a daily 50 minute call to coordinate our efforts around https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly We'll try to reduce IOPS and make GitLab.com fast.

acd10j 10y ago

Github Open source Hosting should be supported by donation model like Wikipedia. Where people and organisations who host code can donate in the foundation. This will remove major threat from it's existence. I would surely donate.

bootload 10y ago
"Github Open source Hosting should be supported by donation model like Wikipedia." That's why I asked the Q. Seems strange that large FOSS projects are hosted but no effort by github made to get some return.
- h1d 10y ago
  Everyone flocking to use GitHub, is the return.
  - bootload 10y ago
    "Everyone flocking to use GitHub" Infrastructure costs dollars. Everyone uses it puts more pressure on the uptime. Is GitHub as big (as much money to splash around) as google?