Thank you for the heads up. I must say I've seen worse projects but I won't argue with the points you raised.

In general I think that compared to the alternatives Gitlab is the least complex to understand and install. Of course that doesn't mean it is perfect or easy. These two lines took us a few hours: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/pull/1263

I think the Gitlab author already did an awesome job and luckily there are many people sending in pull request, already more than 1200!

We try contribute our part. With the growth of Gitlab.io our contributions should grow as well.