How we use GitLab to grow open source communities

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This post details the technical implementation of a semi-automated onboarding solution for open source contributors to GitLab. It describes the use of issue templates with checklists, scheduled pipelines for initial issue creation, webhook events and custom payload templates for immediate pipeline triggering, Ruby scripts for syncing comment templates and automating follow-ups, GLQL for organizing issue tracking, and project mirroring to improve README discoverability. It also highlights the use of scoped labels for access request status and GitLab's value stream analytics for tracking response times.