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Ok, so finally time to move on to Gitlab, my weekend is gone! While from what I read GH issues are not going away, I won't be surprised if GH finally becomes a pure enterprisey product.

My only concern is what happens when Gitlab is acquired? If someone from GL can confirm that they have serious checks and balances in place to not let the users who make Gitlab succeed be left to fend for themselves, can be a killing blow to Github in retaining even the left overs!

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Deciding to move to Gitlab because there is now a separate Jira integration makes no sense to me. Github has built a completely separate integration with Jira - it's not like anything in Github forces you to use Jira, but if you do use it (like a ton of companies do), you would want a better integration story.

This....this makes no sense. An integration doesn't mean something else is going away. That's not how platforms work.

FWIW, gitlab is going to get acquired...it has to. Probably by google, or oracle, or salesforce, or ibm, or hp (or whatever name they have these days), or redhat. And depending on which one it is, will be how ruined gitlab becomes, because all of those seem like terrible options, but I digress now.

We can't predict the future. But our plan is to become a public company in 2020 https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/#sequence-

And while it doesn't prevent an acquisition our recent fundraise makes it less likely https://about.gitlab.com/2018/09/19/announcing-100m-series-d...

There has been a GitLab+JIRA integration for some time already.

That's right. Here's more info about it https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/jira.ht...