Is this a response to Gitlab’s attempt to build an end to end CI/CD system?
I still use GitHub and haven’t switched mostly because gitlab was slow two years ago. I know they’ve made huge strides since, but the integrated workflow is a compelling reason to switch back.
If you self-host Gitlab most of the problems magically disappear (sadly)
To be fair, that's not because they're aiming to push you towards the self-hosted product, it's just far easier to be fast at small scale than at gitlab's public scale.
That is true. With the paid plans that are being phased in, pushing you to self-hosted makes them loose money
I'd love to see the CI usage chart for private repos.
Why?
Because a lot of organization use privately hosted CI/CD systems, such as concourse. :-)
Someone might use this chart to make decisions for their team, and the usage patterns for open source is likely very different from someone using CI for internal development and deployment. (For instance, Travis CI is very popular, but when I've looked at it in the past, it was pricey relative to options like Codeship and CircleCI for private workloads)
Probably not info the CI companies all want public. That's within margin of error of their exact customer counts I would think