Case Study: GNOME achieves streamlined contributor onboarding and stronger collaboration with GitLab

GNOME - Customer Case Study

GNOME, one of the largest and oldest free software projects, moved its development to GitLab to manage more than 400 software projects and nearly 900 annual contributors. GNOME’s challenge was that a patchwork of tools (cgit, Bugzilla, etc.) made onboarding and contributor workflows cumbersome; the project needed a single, free-software-friendly platform that met strict requirements for license and community openness—so they chose GitLab.

GitLab migrated GNOME onto its integrated platform, providing a modern, familiar interface and consolidated toolset that simplified onboarding, encouraged cross-team collaboration, and made it easy to create and host personal and official projects. As a result, GNOME has seen improved contributor engagement, the return of older projects plus an influx of new ones, tighter collaboration with major Linux distributions via GitLab groups, and now centrally manages its 400+ projects and ~900 annual contributors on GitLab.

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Nuritzi Sanchez

President