Interesting announcement, didn't expect it. I respect the decision but it will force me to consider another git host provider. I've always been willing to pay for Gitlab but the prices have always been aggressive and discouraged me from doing it:
- $20/per user for most basic tier when I don't really need any of the features offered (except maybe "approval before merge required")
- $5/month for 10GB of storage ($0.50/GB) is steep. This stopped me from importing my large Git LFS project
- No way to have "view only" members for a repo or issue board without it contributing to your user number count and having to pay full price for them.
It's clear that I'm not that target market for them which is fine but its a bit of a shame as I do like gitlab.
- $20/per user for most basic tier when I don't really need any of the features offered (except maybe "approval before merge required")
- $5/month for 10GB of storage ($0.50/GB) is steep. This stopped me from importing my large Git LFS project
- No way to have "view only" members for a repo or issue board without it contributing to your user number count and having to pay full price for them.
It's clear that I'm not that target market for them which is fine but its a bit of a shame as I do like gitlab.