[gboudrias]

For everyone saying this is a political decision, I don't see why Gitlab would be afraid of being political, especially seeing as a lot of developers were annoyed/angered at the Microsoft buyout.

I also can't see on a technical level a company planning this kind of maintenance operation this quickly. It would be reckless.

[pinewurst]

This is the same organization that switched precipitously to unstable CephFS in 2016. Recklessness doesn't seem to be a problem at GitLab.

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/

[sytse]

We tested CephFS but we never switched to it.