GitLab's 2019 product vision for DevOps Create

This post outlines GitLab's 2019 product vision for the DevOps Create stage, focusing on improvements to source code management, collaboration, and code review. Key technical areas discussed include distributed merge requests for contributing to open source, improved forking workflows (branch comparison, cherry-picking, permission inheritance), API for line-by-line code quality feedback in merge requests, smarter diffs, proposed changes via comments, commit-by-commit code review, autosquashing, and commit message visibility. The Web IDE is also discussed with plans for client-side and server-side evaluation, web terminals, dark themes, Vim keybindings, and integration of merge request discussions.