Mailing List Archive: Committer Freebie

Committer Freebie

Jun 13, 2023, 3:05 AM

Post #1 of 8 (306 views)

Purely FYI

Figured it’s worth sharing that committers now appear to have free access
to GitHub Copilot.

Didn’t seem to in the past - I used the free trial, didn’t find it worth
paying the 100 bucks for it to be part of my current ecosystem of dev
tools, but as I was on my way out, I saw this note that said if you were a
committer on a popular GitHub OpenSource project, you got it for free.

But it wanted my money. So a couple weeks ago I found some like sales
contact form and I wrote some self serving rant about how outrageous the
situation was. Common. Then forgot about it and went on. Common.

But then I saw in my newsfeed the other day that it went GA or something. I
thought I was GA, the waiting list is for CopilotX. They were allowing
signups and taking money. So I clicked the news link, and low and behold,
it said I didn’t have to pay. So I hope my indignation was the instigator,
but probably they expanded the covered projects for this so called GA or
something.

If it extends to CopilotX, that will be a nice little freebie.

Just don’t let Robert catch you with it. Or probably your employer. And it
will hilariously pale in comparison to my custom Policeman IntelliJ Plugin
that only outputs voice in a stunningly accurate Uwe voice clone, taking no
input, just calling out violations in what you are currently working on.

But it’s free, 10$ a month value. If it expands to CopilotX, much more
value.
--
- MRM

Re: Committer Freebie [ In reply to ]

mkhl at apache

Jun 14, 2023, 12:37 AM

Post #2 of 8 (306 views)

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Hello Mark, thanks for the clue.
Do you know how to promote the request? https://github.com/settings/copilot
Mine is stuck in request submitted state

- [image: @apache]*apache*member
Request for Copilot for Business submitted.

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 1:05?PM Mark Miller <markrmiller@gmail.com> wrote:

> Purely FYI
>
> Figured it’s worth sharing that committers now appear to have free access
> to GitHub Copilot.
>
> Didn’t seem to in the past - I used the free trial, didn’t find it worth
> paying the 100 bucks for it to be part of my current ecosystem of dev
> tools, but as I was on my way out, I saw this note that said if you were a
> committer on a popular GitHub OpenSource project, you got it for free.
>
> But it wanted my money. So a couple weeks ago I found some like sales
> contact form and I wrote some self serving rant about how outrageous the
> situation was. Common. Then forgot about it and went on. Common.
>
> But then I saw in my newsfeed the other day that it went GA or something.
> I thought I was GA, the waiting list is for CopilotX. They were allowing
> signups and taking money. So I clicked the news link, and low and behold,
> it said I didn’t have to pay. So I hope my indignation was the instigator,
> but probably they expanded the covered projects for this so called GA or
> something.
>
> If it extends to CopilotX, that will be a nice little freebie.
>
> Just don’t let Robert catch you with it. Or probably your employer. And it
> will hilariously pale in comparison to my custom Policeman IntelliJ Plugin
> that only outputs voice in a stunningly accurate Uwe voice clone, taking no
> input, just calling out violations in what you are currently working on.
>
> But it’s free, 10$ a month value. If it expands to CopilotX, much more
> value.
> --
> - MRM
>

--
Sincerely yours
Mikhail Khludnev

Re: Committer Freebie [ In reply to ]

mkhl at apache

Jun 14, 2023, 12:37 AM

Post #3 of 8 (306 views)

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Re: Committer Freebie [ In reply to ]

luxugang at apache

Jun 14, 2023, 5:57 AM

Post #4 of 8 (306 views)

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Hi, Mikhail. I submitted the request about one month ago and got free
access recently. The request does not take effect immediately.

Xugang
https://www.amazingkoala.com.cn/

Mikhail Khludnev <mkhl@apache.org> ?2023?6?14??? 15:37???

> Hello Mark, thanks for the clue.
> Do you know how to promote the request?
> https://github.com/settings/copilot Mine is stuck in request submitted
> state
>
> - [image: @apache]*apache*member
> Request for Copilot for Business submitted.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 1:05?PM Mark Miller <markrmiller@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Purely FYI
>>
>> Figured it’s worth sharing that committers now appear to have free access
>> to GitHub Copilot.
>>
>> Didn’t seem to in the past - I used the free trial, didn’t find it worth
>> paying the 100 bucks for it to be part of my current ecosystem of dev
>> tools, but as I was on my way out, I saw this note that said if you were a
>> committer on a popular GitHub OpenSource project, you got it for free.
>>
>> But it wanted my money. So a couple weeks ago I found some like sales
>> contact form and I wrote some self serving rant about how outrageous the
>> situation was. Common. Then forgot about it and went on. Common.
>>
>> But then I saw in my newsfeed the other day that it went GA or something.
>> I thought I was GA, the waiting list is for CopilotX. They were allowing
>> signups and taking money. So I clicked the news link, and low and behold,
>> it said I didn’t have to pay. So I hope my indignation was the instigator,
>> but probably they expanded the covered projects for this so called GA or
>> something.
>>
>> If it extends to CopilotX, that will be a nice little freebie.
>>
>> Just don’t let Robert catch you with it. Or probably your employer. And
>> it will hilariously pale in comparison to my custom Policeman IntelliJ
>> Plugin that only outputs voice in a stunningly accurate Uwe voice clone,
>> taking no input, just calling out violations in what you are currently
>> working on.
>>
>> But it’s free, 10$ a month value. If it expands to CopilotX, much more
>> value.
>> --
>> - MRM
>>
>
>
> --
> Sincerely yours
> Mikhail Khludnev
>

Re: Committer Freebie [ In reply to ]

mkhl at apache

Jun 14, 2023, 6:22 AM

Post #5 of 8 (306 views)

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Thanks Xuang!

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 3:58?PM Lu Xugang <luxugang@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi, Mikhail. I submitted the request about one month ago and got free
> access recently. The request does not take effect immediately.
>
> Xugang
> https://www.amazingkoala.com.cn/
>
>
> Mikhail Khludnev <mkhl@apache.org> ?2023?6?14??? 15:37???
>
>> Hello Mark, thanks for the clue.
>> Do you know how to promote the request?
>> https://github.com/settings/copilot Mine is stuck in request submitted
>> state
>>
>> - [image: @apache]*apache*member
>> Request for Copilot for Business submitted.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 1:05?PM Mark Miller <markrmiller@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Purely FYI
>>>
>>> Figured it’s worth sharing that committers now appear to have free
>>> access to GitHub Copilot.
>>>
>>> Didn’t seem to in the past - I used the free trial, didn’t find it worth
>>> paying the 100 bucks for it to be part of my current ecosystem of dev
>>> tools, but as I was on my way out, I saw this note that said if you were a
>>> committer on a popular GitHub OpenSource project, you got it for free.
>>>
>>> But it wanted my money. So a couple weeks ago I found some like sales
>>> contact form and I wrote some self serving rant about how outrageous the
>>> situation was. Common. Then forgot about it and went on. Common.
>>>
>>> But then I saw in my newsfeed the other day that it went GA or
>>> something. I thought I was GA, the waiting list is for CopilotX. They were
>>> allowing signups and taking money. So I clicked the news link, and low and
>>> behold, it said I didn’t have to pay. So I hope my indignation was the
>>> instigator, but probably they expanded the covered projects for this so
>>> called GA or something.
>>>
>>> If it extends to CopilotX, that will be a nice little freebie.
>>>
>>> Just don’t let Robert catch you with it. Or probably your employer. And
>>> it will hilariously pale in comparison to my custom Policeman IntelliJ
>>> Plugin that only outputs voice in a stunningly accurate Uwe voice clone,
>>> taking no input, just calling out violations in what you are currently
>>> working on.
>>>
>>> But it’s free, 10$ a month value. If it expands to CopilotX, much more
>>> value.
>>> --
>>> - MRM
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely yours
>> Mikhail Khludnev
>>
>

--
Sincerely yours
Mikhail Khludnev

Re: Committer Freebie [ In reply to ]

markrmiller at gmail

Jun 15, 2023, 4:46 PM

Post #6 of 8 (305 views)

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Hmm, sorry bout that, I assumed there would be no request. I must have
requested way way back or something. I just went to the page where it used
to ask me to pick a yearly or monthly payment and it said I don’t have to
pay when it used to make me pick. But I just read it went GA, so that seems
weird you’d still have to make a request. CopilotX (the chatgpt 4) version
is definitely early access waiting list, but I swear I just read regular
copilot went GA - that’s the article I was reading when I found out it was
now free. That’s says copilot for business. Is there a not for business
version your missing?

Re: Committer Freebie [ In reply to ]

mkhl at apache

Jul 5, 2023, 3:30 AM

Post #7 of 8 (280 views)

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Right. I've got Copilot working with no charge for my account included into
Apache org.
That "Request for Business'' seems like some different thing.
Thanks for the clue, Mark!

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 2:47?AM Mark Miller <markrmiller@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm, sorry bout that, I assumed there would be no request. I must have
> requested way way back or something. I just went to the page where it used
> to ask me to pick a yearly or monthly payment and it said I don’t have to
> pay when it used to make me pick. But I just read it went GA, so that seems
> weird you’d still have to make a request. CopilotX (the chatgpt 4) version
> is definitely early access waiting list, but I swear I just read regular
> copilot went GA - that’s the article I was reading when I found out it was
> now free. That’s says copilot for business. Is there a not for business
> version your missing?
>

--
Sincerely yours
Mikhail Khludnev

Re: Committer Freebie [ In reply to ]

markrmiller at gmail

Jul 5, 2023, 5:00 AM

Post #8 of 8 (280 views)

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Cool. FYI this does also seem to apply to Copilot Chat if you join the
waiting list. I think it took a few weeks for me to get accepted from the
wait list. It seems significantly less capable than cut and pasting to
ChatGPT4, but it does come with an 8K context and seemingly no request
limits, whereas the plus subscription is still 25 requests per 3 hours and
a 4K context.