We sent an MR to Gitlab 1.5 years ago (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/merge_requests/15697 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/merge_requests/1

We sent an MR to Gitlab 1.5 years ago (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/merge_requests/15697 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/merge_requests/156...) implementing our open-source analytics tool to their app and letting the system administrators opt-in to this feature if they want to analyze their user behavior but it looks like Gitlab wanted to implement a centralized user tracking feature for themselves instead. However, given that most of the Gitlab customers / open-source community cares about their privacy and want to have the control (well, that's probably why they switched to Gitlab from other products), I wonder why they wanted to follow this approach in the first place. The good thing is that they almost always know how to take action when their community reacts.