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As far as I understand it nobody but the git team is paying for hosting. Why neither Github or Heroku are paying for this? They are built on top of git. Million
by camus2 10y ago
As far as I understand it nobody but the git team is paying for hosting. Why neither Github or Heroku are paying for this? They are built on top of git. Millions of tech dollars go to political causes right now yet nobody is willing to give $230/mo of free hosting to git website, the most used VCS today? Talk about priorities. And it's not the first time, plenty of open source projects used by billion dollar companies receive 0 of funding.
Edit: GIthub seems to be paying for that but Heroku shouldn't even bill them.
- chickenfries 10y agoGitHub is paying for it.
- jwilk 10y agoFrom the Hacker News Guidelines[0] > Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- chickenfries 10y agoDidn't know that, thanks.
- lima 10y ago> The deployed site is hosted on Heroku. It's part of GitHub's meta-account, and they pay the bills. Sounds like GitHub foots the bill.
- switchbak 10y agoThe article says in the first few paragraphs that GitHub is paying for the hosting right now.
- geofft 10y agoIt was a website built by a GitHub co-founder on his own initiative, who happened to also be a git contributor. It wasn't particularly a thing that git the open-source project requested. The previous git website was http://git.or.cz/ http://git.or.cz/ , also run by a git contributor, and releases were (and still are) at https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ .