I agree it would be risky to go on this path. So when Dmitriy wanted to make CI years ago I told him to keep the main thing the main thing. Why reinvent the CI

I agree it would be risky to go on this path. So when Dmitriy wanted to make CI years ago I told him to keep the main thing the main thing. Why reinvent the CI wheel, our efforts were better spent making our Jenkins integration better. But I didn't stop him. And what I learned was that we were able to do CI and make it a better product that what was on the market. That was counterintuitive for me. But we've since seen the benefits of integrating CI, CD, issue boards, and a docker container registry. We still have lots of work to do integrating Mattermost, Koding, Cog, Prometheus. But we're convinced we can do a better job. If you look at what we shipped last month I hope you can see the rate of improvement https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/22/gitlab-8-11-released/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/22/gitlab-8-11-released/ And to make sure we have enough capacity going forward we hire remotely, use open source collaboration processes, and just raised more capital.