I believe it's an inconvenience rather than a problem
I understand both the inconvenience and the overall feeling of "My code will not be safe", but if all it takes for me to have free code and page hosting, a free package registry, a free container registry and free CI/CD run time for a project is to write a comment once a year, is not a problem nor much effort (for both my projects and projects that I want to keep around).
We should also point out that they are open source. They are giving their most valuable asset free for all, from individuals to large organizations to host their own instances instead of forcing everyone to use their cloud services.
Of course, it'd be nice to see a cold-storage option (as @khalyomed noted), but I don't plan to help the community by writing it anytime soon. So I don't expect it to get done. Even if we know that notifications are not really enough as we've seen with SSL and domain name expiration examples.
For people questioning their economic status, they seem to go pretty well actually ir.gitlab.com/news-releases/news-r..., but a million USD is a million USD and it doesn't feel quite right to demand someone else to pay for services so I can use them for free (and without any effort).
Probably I should also note that I don't currently use GitLab, but I was using it quite a lot and I do care to keep code that I don't actively maintain alive. I also believe it's the best alternative
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I believe it's an inconvenience rather than a problem
I understand both the inconvenience and the overall feeling of "My code will not be safe", but if all it takes for me to have free code and page hosting, a free package registry, a free container registry and free CI/CD run time for a project is to write a comment once a year, is not a problem nor much effort (for both my projects and projects that I want to keep around).
We should also point out that they are open source. They are giving their most valuable asset free for all, from individuals to large organizations to host their own instances instead of forcing everyone to use their cloud services.
Of course, it'd be nice to see a cold-storage option (as @khalyomed noted), but I don't plan to help the community by writing it anytime soon. So I don't expect it to get done. Even if we know that notifications are not really enough as we've seen with SSL and domain name expiration examples.
For people questioning their economic status, they seem to go pretty well actually ir.gitlab.com/news-releases/news-r..., but a million USD is a million USD and it doesn't feel quite right to demand someone else to pay for services so I can use them for free (and without any effort).
Probably I should also note that I don't currently use GitLab, but I was using it quite a lot and I do care to keep code that I don't actively maintain alive. I also believe it's the best alternative