Thanks for the advise, it was interesting reading about Cygnus, I was not aware of their story. At GitLab we already use both the pull and the push model. Since

Thanks for the advise, it was interesting reading about Cygnus, I was not aware of their story. At GitLab we already use both the pull and the push model. Since we started there have been people contributing to GitLab (more than 700!) and we encourage more contributions: http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/status/796455 http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/status/7964... We also do sponsored development were organizations pay for adding new features. People and organizations love contributing and sponsoring new user facing features. But other work is not contributed. Release management, dependency updates, security investigations and design updates don't receive much love. Few people want to do the work and few organizations want to sponsor it. I don't say pull driven software can't be secure (FreeBSD) or that it can't be well designed. But with GitLab we were not happy with the rate of progress on these fronts. So we adopted an open core model to pay people to help with this. This meant our free software (that has the same design and security as the proprietary one) advanced at a much more rapid pace. We're sure that staying 100% pull driven would not have created such as quality product as GitLab is today. We respect other organizations working with other models (Linux, Rails, etc.) but we're very happy with the choice we made for GitLab.