We spend a lot of development time fixing bugs. Over the last year GitLab has gotten a lot more stable. Of course it is not perfect and the rapid addition of ne

We spend a lot of development time fixing bugs. Over the last year GitLab has gotten a lot more stable. Of course it is not perfect and the rapid addition of new features creates new bugs. The issue tracker is growing because we also keep feature proposals there. GitLab CI doesn't poll the repository. The GitLab Runner does poll GitLab for new jobs. We're currently working on making sure that GitLab can deal with those requests more efficiently. Polling makes setting up Runners a lot easier for our users. Not being able to retry half of your builds sounds very bad. Please contact support@ our domain and add a link to this comment to receive help with that. It was a big thing to add CI to GitLab and we had a lot of concerns about it before we did so. But after doing it the improvements in the interface, CD functionality, Pages, review apps, auto deploy, and many other things convinced us that this is the right path. GitLab will work with other tools but out of the box it will offer you a great experience. For the benefits of that please see https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/14/idea-to-production/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/14/idea-to-production/