GNOME: two years after the move to GitLab

Over the past two years since moving to GitLab, the GNOME project has experienced significant changes in its community engagement and software development lifecycle. The transition to GitLab's Community Edition has enhanced collaboration across all teams, including non-coding teams, by utilizing features like CI/CD for testing, issue tracking, and kanban boards, although the translation team still partially relies on Bugzilla due to specific role requirements. The shift has increased transparency and community involvement, with more developers hosting projects related to GNOME, though it sometimes causes friction when the wider community engages with designs prematurely. The integration of GitLab has also improved the relationship between designers and maintainers and expedited the development cycle for the Flatpak software. Despite ongoing challenges in quality assurance and testing, GNOME continues to adapt by using homegrown tools to overcome GitLab's limitations and aspires to become more data-driven with the implementation of community health metrics. GitLab's transparency and growing support for open-source communities are appreciated, and GNOME is actively working to expand its contributor base through initiatives like the Community Engagement Challenge and upcoming conferences, with the aim of fostering a younger generation's involvement in open source.

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