Just another small note on potentially confusing messaging around this change:
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GitLab Pricing implies that the 5 user limit will be applied to self-hosted “Free” tier. It says “5 users per namespace” under the button that leads to the install page for GitLab self-hosted free.
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As absurd as this seems now that I’ve gone back and re-read the announcement and FAQ: It was genuinely not clear to me that self-hosted was exempt from the limit.
2.1. https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/03/24/efficient-free-tier/: “Free and paid self-managed subscriptions” → Self-hosting GitLab is not a subscription. It’s hosting a piece of open source software. No contract is required is it?
2.2 “Organizations impacted by this change should consider” vs “Free tier users using GitLab […] should”: I’m a free tier user impacted by this, but I’m not an organisation, so it wasn’t clear that paragraph was applicable to me as a non-corporate entity.
2.3 " the free tier of the self-managed offering and community programs - including GitLab for Open Source, Education and Startups users" The missing oxford comma actually confused me…
Would it be silly to ask for a migration table/flowchart? Because of the confusing terms “self-managed subscription” or “self-managed offering” it’s very hard to parse.