Vercel

Operating under a single Vercel team

• Currently on the "Pro" plan for free thanks to our Vercel sponsorship
  • Teams on this tier are limited to 5 team member seats
    • Serious limitation in an org with 1000s people and potentially infinite projects
    • Current members with seats
      • with-heart
      • kempsterrrr
      • thomasmetta
      • narbs
      • dhaiwat
• Why is this a bottleneck?
  • Since we're maxed out, adding a new member means we have to remove someone else
  • Git Fork Protection requires a team member to approve each preview deploy from a fork branched on any project with environment variables stored in Vercel (which is a healthy practice)
    • 5 seated team members = 5 members that have to approve every single preview deploy from a fork = major bottleneck, even with the few projects we currently have
      • Problem will only get worse as we add more projects
    • We could get around this bottleneck by disabling Git Fork Protection, but I think that exposes us to potential risk and isn't a viable solution
• Potential short-term solution
  • Define the process and requirements for receiving sponsorship from Vercel
  • Create a new team for each project and apply for sponsorship
  • Allow each project team to determine which of its own members are given access to the project
  • Why is this a short-term solution?
    • Even if we implement this solution, we still have a limited number of seats available to each project
    • We'd still be bottlenecked by the fact that each project needs to establish its own sponsorship