The discussion is still ongoing, the latest official communication I'm aware of was the blog post at https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/12/update-on-hiring/

The discussion is still ongoing, the latest official communication I'm aware of was the blog post at https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/12/update-on-hiring/ https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/12/update-on-hiring/ Note that this was always only about excluding certain job roles who have administrative access to production servers, not all jobs in general.