GitLab is right. I ran a company that was in the GitHub marketplace and was a partner. At the GH partner day a few years ago they shared their view the world:

GitLab is right. I ran a company that was in the GitHub marketplace and was a partner. At the GH partner day a few years ago they shared their view the world: their thinking was that it was preferable for devs to be able to use “best in class” tooling for CI, project management, etc, with gitHub’s version control at the center. GitHub contrasted this with the “one stop shop” approach where you get all your Dev needs met with (presumably) inferior tools from a single vendor. Because, the thinking went, how could one vendor do everything better than many vendors? Especially if you have sets of vendors focused on one tool in the Dev toolchain? Between Projects, Actions, and CI/CD, it seems GItHub has indeed come around to the one stop shop view of the developer toolchain. I guess each of those only has to be good enough and not best in class. And there are efficiencies to be gained for customers from an integrated approach.