I'm trying out GitBook for documentation, it looks nice
🇳🇱
@Gargron Yea I thought it looked nice. The lack of open-source was a killer for me though. I cant use services that people need to pay to use on an opensource project :(
@freemo It looks free to me...
@freemo Oh, I see what you mean. Hmm
@Gargron Yea :( they do have a free tier but thats only for 2 users. Any more than that youd have to pay.
I dont mind paying for myself but if i required that of my devs on any of my OSS projects I would lose a lot of devs.
@freemo But you'd be paying for them though, not them
It looks like they have a free for open-source and non-profits pricing tier, in addition to the free-basic tier:
@rusty
Oh nice! I'd still be reluctant though. It reminds me of when my Aparapi project had a open-source license exception from intellij. We moved all our devs over to it. They changed their ToS though later and pulled the license and all our devs were left with broken build environments unless I payed a few thousand a year.
For that reason I am very cautious of getting locked in to commercial services. I will use them but only if i can easily export and move to their standards should the need arise. I can do that with gitlab (so i use it) but not sure that would be true of gitbook, so I dont.
I do agree though GitBook looks very sexy and they did a nice job.
