how is the CD in Gitlab complete without this issue being complete (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/28497) - is there any alternative if i want to use "gitlab.com" for hosting my code ?
If you don't want to use GitLab.com to host your code you can install GitLab yourself or use the mirroring function in GitLab to deploy code hosted elsewhere.
Will wait it out for Gitlab 9.1 :) Thank you for the amazing work.
And you're welcome.