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Ask HN: What defines a popular OSS maintainer for free GitHub Copilot?
Edit: It turns out I supposedly do get free Copilot after all - must have been a syncing hickup.
I have write access on two >1k star repos, and multiple >200 star repos. Apparently that's enough to get free Copilot.
I'd love to hear more examples of who does and does not qualify for a free subscription.
This is how vaguely Github describes the criteria:
>People who maintain popular open source projects receive a credit to have 12 months of GitHub Copilot access for free. A maintainer of a popular open source project is defined as someone who has write or admin access to one or more of the most popular open source projects on GitHub.
- croemer 4y agoSee here for the FAQ: https://github.com/pricing#faq-copilot https://github.com/pricing#faq-copilot
- RobinL 4y agoI am lead author of an active 400+ star repo with 300k downloads a month on pypi, but don't get copilot free. The repo is hosted on my organisation's GitHub, not my personal one. I am also author of an inactive 250+ star repo on my personal account. I'd love to know what target I'd have to reach to qualify for free access!