Well since you asked, I'm working on a system that writes perfect bug-free code for me, but if you can implement that I'll save myself the effort.

But really, the next thing on the roadmap is to get tighter integration between our CFM (saltstack/salt-api) and gitlab. Tie it into deploys, auto-open issues on failed states, etc., though that's gonna be more on the salt side than the gitlab side and likely wouldn't make sense for you guys to implement anyways.

Im sure I'll end up setting up whatever does make it into 8.9 a week before it's released though.

It would be nice to upload Salt modules directly from GitLab.

Since you can deploy from GitLab too, auto-opening issues for failed builds makes sense. I opened an issue on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/17771

I predict you'll be setting up different environments a week before 8.9 since that is what we'll ship.