On 2019-09-17 08:49, Steve Fink wrote:
On 9/12/19 10:04 PM, Brendan Barnwell wrote:
I was heartened to see this message and I hope something will come
of it. In general I agree with what you mentioned as the desiderata.
For me the key combination of features that made Bitbucket great were
that it offered:
1. unlimited
2. free
3. private
4. Mercurial repositories
I feel there is a huge difference between having all of those
features and having any three of them. In particular the ability to
have unlimited PRIVATE repositories is, I think, a huge benefit for
people using Hg for casual projects. I have lots of projects that I'm
working on by myself or maybe with one or two other people, and I
don't want to make them publically available, but I'd still like to be
able to have a server somewhere that I can push and pull to so that I
can work on different computers.
Just out of curiousity: why is #1 necessary for casual projects? I don't
know what specific limits are being referred to, but repository size and
change frequency and total bandwidth should all be pretty small for
casual projects.
The main limitation I was thinking of is a limitation on the number of
repositories (or "projects" or whatever a given service calls them).
Some of the services I've been looking at since Bitbucket's announcement
have free or low-priced tiers that put a cap on the number of repos
(e.g., https://www.versionshelf.com/sign_up). An overall limitation on
total size or bandwidth indeed would not be as bad.
Some services also place a limit on the number of users who can
collaborate on private repos. Depending on how this is calculated it
can also be a problem. If the limit were number of users per repo that
might be okay, but some services (such as, I think, Bitbucket) count any
user with access to any of your private repos as "a user" that counts
agains the free plan limit. So if you have five private projects each
with a different collaborator, you hit the five-user cap.
--
Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no
path, and leave a trail."
--author unknown
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