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Disclosure: I am not a GitLab team member, but I am part of the community "GitLab Core team". This is purely hypothetical. I have zero knowledge of anything internal to GitLab. Having said that.

I think it could be really good to have a company like GitLab either acquire PenPot to integrate it into their platform, or build a really tight embedded integration with the service.

You would have designers and developers using the same platform to manage things from both initial idea (Epics/Issues), through the design process (integrated PenPot), and then into the development of the feature (Issues/Merge Requests). This would give everything really tight integration and make moving between the different stages of the SDLC really smooth. I'd imagine the designs having their own git repo too, it wouldn't need to be exposed to the designers, but would give a nice easy way to export the data, view it locally, and move it into another product if needed.