A lot of discussions about how git repos are supposed to be small are totally missing the point. This storage quota applies to everything, including release artifacts, containers, etc. Forget containers or CI artifacts on every commit, let's look at a very common scenario: using goreleaser to build binaries and deb/rpm/etc. packages for multiple architectures every release. This way a moderately sized Go project can easily consume 50-100MB or more per release. That gives you at most 50-100 releases across all your projects.

Using hosted GitLab for open source projects is looking less and less appealing.

I also posted about issue trackers on gitlab.com not allowing search without signing in a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252501

Edit: An open source program that upgrades the quota is mentioned elsewhere in the thread: https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/ I don’t use hosted GitLab for my open source work, so no idea how many people get approved.