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A lot of discussions about how git repos are supposed to be small are totally missing the point. This storage quota applies to everything, including release art
by oefrha 4y ago
A lot of discussions about how git repos are supposed to be small are totally missing the point. This storage quota applies to everything, including release artifacts, containers, etc. Forget containers or CI artifacts on every commit, let's look at a very common scenario: using goreleaser to build binaries and deb/rpm/etc. packages for multiple architectures every release. This way a moderately sized Go project can easily consume 50-100MB or more per release. That gives you at most 50-100 releases across all your projects.
Using hosted GitLab for open source projects is looking less and less appealing.
I also posted about issue trackers on gitlab.com not allowing search without signing in a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252501 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252501
Edit: An open source program that upgrades the quota is mentioned elsewhere in the thread: https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/ https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/ I don’t use hosted GitLab for my open source work, so no idea how many people get approved.
- john_cogs 4y agoHi, GitLab team member here. The GitLab for Open Source program provides open source projects with Ultimate benefits and higher limits. More info in previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32387621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32387621
- KMnO4 4y agoWhy do you have to “apply” for these benefits? Shouldn’t providing the source publicly in the open (ie not a private repository) by definition be enough for “open source”?
- saganus 4y agoWhat happens if I publish the code under a restrictive (non-open source) license? Even though the code is available, that does not mean you can use it however you want, no?
- SCLeo 4y agoMaybe just giving this free quota to projects that is using a known open source license?
- jacooper 4y agoBut GitLab already gives more features to public repos. Public repos have a cost factor of 0.008 so your actualy CI quota is 125,000, instead of only 400. It would actually make it feasible to grow on GitLab if quotas changed based on if its a public or a private repo, like how GitHub does it. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/cicd_minutes.html#cost-factor https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/cicd_minutes.html#co...
- tinus_hn 4y agoWhy do you expect services for free? Is it really too much that you have to ask to be upgraded for free?
- sushid 4y agoI'm guessing it's because you can easily whip up an OS project and pay nothing on Github.
- jacooper 4y agoAny plans on removing the sign up requirement to search issues ? Its really annoying.
- sieabahlpark 4y ago