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Wait, how does this work? Who pays for all that compute time in the cloud? What's the catch?

canadianwriter 8y ago
I have a feeling Microsoft does. They've hosted Github pages for free for quite some time... though this may use far more resources.
- wulfmann 8y ago
  Yes, computing costs far outweigh hosting costs.
dragonwriter 8y ago
Presumably, like every other GitHub feature, the people paying for GitHub pay for it, free users get it as part of the ecosystem building promotion that the free tier provides to bring in paying (not purely public/OSS, team features) customers, with the assumption that the surplus on the paid accounts will, over the log term if not immediately, cover the cost of the free use. Or they’ll make it a separately charged feature once they evaluate demand and usage in the beta, but AFAIK that would be new for GitHub.
- jordiee 8y ago
  It mentions actions need to be private repos. So if I not mistaken free uses will not be able to use it.
  - bnVi 8y ago
    Where exactly does what say actions need to be in private repos? I'm not finding it. Edit: Seems like workflows can only be created in private repos [1], > You can only create workflows in private repositories. but actions can be public [2]. > To share GitHub Actions with the GitHub community, your repository must be public. [1] https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-workflows/creating-a-new-workflow/ https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-workflows/crea... [2] https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-github-actions/creating-a-new-action/ https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-github-actions...
    - perlgeek 8y ago
      Found it about workflows at least: https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-workflows/creating-a-new-workflow/ https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-workflows/crea... > You can only create workflows in private repositories
      - ilaksh 8y ago
        Does this mean that Actions in general cannot be used for public open source projects? It seems like a lot of them could benefit from this. Maybe they need a new category of paid but still public.
        mwarkentin 8y ago
        Might be a security thing rather than money?
        jarfil 8y ago
        > Over time — and Lambert seemed to be in favor of this — GitHub could also allow developers to sell their workflows and Actions through the GitHub marketplace. Nope, it's about money.
  - preya2k 8y ago
    Supposedly, this is only a restriction during the beta period. https://twitter.com/MoStueck/status/1052384517212725248 https://twitter.com/MoStueck/status/1052384517212725248
- wgjordan 8y ago
  > Or they’ll make it a separately charged feature once they evaluate demand and usage in the beta, but AFAIK that would be new for GitHub. Not new- GitHub's hosted Git LFS product costs $5/month per 50gb bandwidth/storage, after a 1gb free tier [1]. [1] https://help.github.com/articles/about-storage-and-bandwidth-usage/ https://help.github.com/articles/about-storage-and-bandwidth...

I have a feeling Microsoft does. They've hosted Github pages for free for quite some time... though this may use far more resources.

wulfmann 8y ago
Yes, computing costs far outweigh hosting costs.

dragonwriter 8y ago

Presumably, like every other GitHub feature, the people paying for GitHub pay for it, free users get it as part of the ecosystem building promotion that the free tier provides to bring in paying (not purely public/OSS, team features) customers, with the assumption that the surplus on the paid accounts will, over the log term if not immediately, cover the cost of the free use. Or they’ll make it a separately charged feature once they evaluate demand and usage in the beta, but AFAIK that would be new for GitHub.

jordiee 8y ago
It mentions actions need to be private repos. So if I not mistaken free uses will not be able to use it.
- bnVi 8y ago
  Where exactly does what say actions need to be in private repos? I'm not finding it. Edit: Seems like workflows can only be created in private repos [1], > You can only create workflows in private repositories. but actions can be public [2]. > To share GitHub Actions with the GitHub community, your repository must be public. [1] https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-workflows/creating-a-new-workflow/ https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-workflows/crea... [2] https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-github-actions/creating-a-new-action/ https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-github-actions...
  - perlgeek 8y ago
    Found it about workflows at least: https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-workflows/creating-a-new-workflow/ https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-workflows/crea... > You can only create workflows in private repositories
    - ilaksh 8y ago
      Does this mean that Actions in general cannot be used for public open source projects? It seems like a lot of them could benefit from this. Maybe they need a new category of paid but still public.
      - mwarkentin 8y ago
        Might be a security thing rather than money?
        jarfil 8y ago
        > Over time — and Lambert seemed to be in favor of this — GitHub could also allow developers to sell their workflows and Actions through the GitHub marketplace. Nope, it's about money.
- preya2k 8y ago
  Supposedly, this is only a restriction during the beta period. https://twitter.com/MoStueck/status/1052384517212725248 https://twitter.com/MoStueck/status/1052384517212725248
wgjordan 8y ago
> Or they’ll make it a separately charged feature once they evaluate demand and usage in the beta, but AFAIK that would be new for GitHub. Not new- GitHub's hosted Git LFS product costs $5/month per 50gb bandwidth/storage, after a 1gb free tier [1]. [1] https://help.github.com/articles/about-storage-and-bandwidth-usage/ https://help.github.com/articles/about-storage-and-bandwidth...