Why do you have to “apply” for these benefits? Shouldn’t providing the source publicly in the open (ie not a private repository) by definition be enough for “open source”?
Even though the code is available, that does not mean you can use it however you want, no?
Public repos have a cost factor of 0.008 so your actualy CI quota is 125,000, instead of only 400.
It would actually make it feasible to grow on GitLab if quotas changed based on if its a public or a private repo, like how GitHub does it.
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/cicd_minutes.html#co...