Seems like this is the equivalent to GitLab's Code Quality CI template [1]? Which is supposedly built on Code Climate [2].
[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/code_...
[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/code_...
Just a poor experience all around.
GitHub's approach here seems much more sane.
We have also seen that SuperLinter can be run as part of a GitLab pipeline without too much hassle.
-James H Product Manager - Testing