Hello Mark, thanks for the clue. Do you know how to promote the request? https://github.com/settings/copilot Mine is stuck in request submitted state
- [image: @apache]*apache*member Request for Copilot for Business submitted. On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 1:05 PM Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Purely FYI > > Figured it’s worth sharing that committers now appear to have free access > to GitHub Copilot. > > Didn’t seem to in the past - I used the free trial, didn’t find it worth > paying the 100 bucks for it to be part of my current ecosystem of dev > tools, but as I was on my way out, I saw this note that said if you were a > committer on a popular GitHub OpenSource project, you got it for free. > > But it wanted my money. So a couple weeks ago I found some like sales > contact form and I wrote some self serving rant about how outrageous the > situation was. Common. Then forgot about it and went on. Common. > > But then I saw in my newsfeed the other day that it went GA or something. > I thought I was GA, the waiting list is for CopilotX. They were allowing > signups and taking money. So I clicked the news link, and low and behold, > it said I didn’t have to pay. So I hope my indignation was the instigator, > but probably they expanded the covered projects for this so called GA or > something. > > If it extends to CopilotX, that will be a nice little freebie. > > Just don’t let Robert catch you with it. Or probably your employer. And it > will hilariously pale in comparison to my custom Policeman IntelliJ Plugin > that only outputs voice in a stunningly accurate Uwe voice clone, taking no > input, just calling out violations in what you are currently working on. > > But it’s free, 10$ a month value. If it expands to CopilotX, much more > value. > -- > - MRM > -- Sincerely yours Mikhail Khludnev
