Clarify Copilot Chat License Index Limits Are Per Individual

[chriscct7]

Why:

Clarifies that the limits are per person, ie 50 repo index limit for each licensed Copilot Business user not 50 repos for the entire GitHub Organization.

What's being changed (if available, include any code snippets, screenshots, or gifs):

Updates the title with (Per Individual) to clarify the license limits are individual.

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Someone at GitHub should confirm this is true first. I can't test the 50 limits because one of the known limitations around indexing is that there is currently no way to de-index them

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[nguyenalex836]

@chriscct7 Thanks so much for opening a PR! I'll get this triaged for review ✨

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Thanks for opening a pull request! We've triaged this issue for technical review by a subject matter expert 👀

[nguyenalex836]

@chriscct7 Thank you so much for your patience while our SME team reviewed! ✨

Our SMEs informed us the repo indexing limits are for the overarching subscription holder, not each individual licensed user (for example, for Copilot Business, the organization or enterprise with the subscription can index a total of 50 repos, rather than each licensed CB user being able to index any 50 repos they choose).

This distinction currently only matters for Copilot Business, since CI is for personal accounts and CE has no indexing limit. We still feel some clarity should be added to the docs regarding these limits!

If you're able to update your PR with this information, we'll be happy to get this merged! 💛

[chriscct7]

Our SMEs informed us the repo indexing limits are for the overarching subscription holder, not each individual licensed user (for example, for Copilot Business, the organization or enterprise with the subscription can index a total of 50 repos, rather than each licensed CB user being able to index any 50 repos they choose).

Wanted to double check this because if I'm understanding this correctly, wouldn't that mean that if an Org has 5 or more members it would be better to have people individually buy copilot than using business licensing, particularly as there's no way for a business to pick which repos (or remove/manage repos) are indexed?

[chriscct7]

Updated the PR to match that (I think this is the best way of doing it?)

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[nguyenalex836]

@chriscct7 Apologies for our overzealous bot! Our SME team is giving your latest updates a final review - we'll update as soon as we hear back 💛

[sabrowning1]

👋🏼 @chriscct7, thanks again for raising this PR, and sorry for the delayed review! I've left a suggestion below.

Wanted to double check this because if I'm understanding this correctly, wouldn't that mean that if an Org has 5 or more members it would be better to have people individually buy copilot than using business licensing, particularly as there's no way for a business to pick which repos (or remove/manage repos) are indexed?

Good question! I'd still recommend a Copilot Business subscription for a couple reasons:

• The 50 indexed repos would be available to all Copilot Business users in the organization, while each Copilot Individual user would only have access to a maximum of 5 repos they index themselves.
• The organization would lose out on features like org-level policy management and file exclusion that are available with Copilot Business, but not Copilot Individual.

Once you've had a chance to take a look at my suggestion, feel free to ping me for another review 🙂

[nguyenalex836]

@chriscct7 I went ahead and committed @sabrowning1's suggestion 💛 We are currently in a repo freeze, but will get this merged as soon as the freeze ends on November 1st! Thank you so much for contributing to GitHub Docs 🚀

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