I've written my own gitlab-ldap integration when I was at a startup, done purely with the gitlab API and a cron job. It took me half a day, and didn't have to t

I've written my own gitlab-ldap integration when I was at a startup, done purely with the gitlab API and a cron job. It took me half a day, and didn't have to touch the script for the three years it was in production afterwards. So, no, this was absolutely productive. This isn't a particularly hard problem to solve.