[sytse]

We are trying to make a single application that covers the whole DevOps lifecycle, from planning your change up to monitoring its effect.

We're doing it because we believe there are emergent benefits to having the lifecycle in a single application https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/single-application...

[gregoriol]

The idea seems great, but it's not working: there is no single application that can fit all uses, and you are loosing most of the users on the way.

I'm using Gitlab, btw, but only for the self-hosted git and it's user interface (ie. your core). All the other parts (bug tracking, CI, chat, ...) are in different and more appropriate tools for each of our use-cases... because most of yours are not complete enough, or sometimes it's not even clear how they actually could work for us (mattermost for example).