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I find github compelling enough to pay them for private repos. $84 a year gets me five private repos. If you want to win me (and others like me) over you'll hav
by xyzzyb 14y ago
I find github compelling enough to pay them for private repos. $84 a year gets me five private repos. If you want to win me (and others like me) over you'll have to sell me an improved experience.
- tzs 14y agoI sort of understand why people like Github for public projects, but what's compelling for a private project?
- hzy 14y agoIt's a single, unified place to host code with a known-to-be-good experience.
- xyzzyb 14y agohzy has it right on the money. It's rock solid and reliable. The built in issues/pull requests/wiki are fantastic. Adding in a collaborator is easy. It's credentials I already heavily use. Plus, I like github tons so I'm happy to pay.
- icefox 14y agoOne of the most compelling feature of using GitHub for private repositories is developers already know how to use it, already have accounts etc. GitHub has a nice growing moat in that regard.
- flog 14y agoI find issues and the wiki to be the weak points of github. Fix those.
- sytse 14y agoThank you for the suggestion.
- subsection1h 14y agoI find issues and the wiki to be the weak points of github. What's wrong with GitHub's wikis? I recently evaluated wiki software that I could use with one of the teams I'm on, and I was surprised when I ended up choosing GitHub's wikis. I love that their wikis support Org Mode's syntax. The only other solution I could find that supports Git and Org Mode's syntax is Gitit, which was my second choice. I was fully prepared to use Markdown, Textile, or some other lightweight markup language that I consider inferior to Org Mode's syntax, but no wiki solution was good enough to warrant that compromise.