[dnsmichi]

GitLab team member here.

> How many distros now have their own GitLab instance?

Open Source project partners are listed in https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/partners/

More insights into GitLab for Open Source in https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/ and the Open Source program handbook page in https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-rel... -- created an MR to update the section at the bottom with Hacker News examples. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/content-sites/handbook/-/merge...

[Foxboron]

Here is a post of the git migration to Gitlab on their tech blog written by Levente Polyak (Arch project leader).

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/09/11/migrating-arch-linu...

Mentioning it as it never did well on HN, but probably interesting in light of this post.