In reply to Nico.

Hi Nico! I appreciate the feeling. That is how Deployer came about in the first place - I wanted a tool for my own workflow. Then I helped a client who did not want to tackle SVN. And then I thought it might be useful to others out there, so I added a public registration form and talked about it a bit.

As for providing the service for free - I see it as part of me giving back to the WordPress community. I might not be a big-shot name in WordPress circles, but I still believe the things I have released (Gust, Content Cards, etc.) give me a bit of trust capital within the community. And they have donated more than 100 cups of coffee to support various of my WordPress related projects to date.

As for your "valuable data" - if you are using Deployer, your project is open source and I do not believe I have access to any data you are not giving away anyway. Deployer only works with public GitHub repositories, and WordPress.org repository is also public. I do not believe I could have made this service in a way that requires less access and still works.

As for making it open source, I only try to release stuff that I am prepared to support and document. Deployer is not something you can run on any shared hosting nor do I intend to make it such. It will require some technical knowledge to set up and run. I believe people who have that level of knowledge already have their own scripts in place, or can find better solutions for this - bash scripts, grunt tasks, etc. But hey, if you really need it - here is the class that does the actual work: https://gist.github.com/ideag/fceb74ea31b5ee565b33