using gitlab ultimate

[Harald Sitter]

On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 4:35 PM <christoph at cullmann.io> wrote:
>
> On 2023-08-02 16:26, Harald Sitter wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 4:23 PM Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mittwoch, 2. August 2023 15:55:44 CEST Harald Sitter wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 3:48 PM Sune Vuorela <nospam at vuorela.dk> wrote:
> >> > > On 2023-08-02, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
> >> > > > I don't think so
> >> > >
> >> > > As such, I have a hard time seeing that these mentioned features is
> >> > > important enough to give in on what I feel are our principles of a
> >> > > organization doing free software.
> >> > >
> >> > > I have a hard time finding any featureset where it would be important
> >> > > enough.
> >> >
> >> > It is my understanding that non-trivial amounts of time have been
> >> > spent on making a CI dashboard that now nobody uses because it is
> >> > defunct or some such. In essence we've wasted valuable free software
> >> > time. That seems a pretty compelling reason in my book.
> >>
> >> No, it's a pretty compelling reason to convince the GitLab folks to
> >> make their
> >> dashboard available to everyone.
> >
> > I'll not stop you :)
> > Until that happens the argument stands.
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't think using commercial non-free solutions as the primary tool
> for our development
> is a good idea.
>
> Beside that, that is billed per user: https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/
>
> e.g. $1188 USD per year per non-guest user
>
> That looks like a lot money to pay given we have more than 10 users,
> even if it
> has less costs if you buy xxx accounts.

It is my understanding that they are giving it away for free to free
software projects.

HS