Contributors per cycle
Accepted projects each year, against the median organization that year
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| GitLab | Median organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 0 | 4 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4 |
| 2022 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 5 | 5 |
| 2026 | 0 | 4 |
Last took part in 2025
GitLab
Everyone can contribute
Contributors in 2026
–
Not taking part
Projects since 2016
15
3.8 a cycle on average
Cycles
4 of 11
First in 2021
Rank in 2026
–
By contributors
Mentors
5
for 5 projects in 2025
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Technologies
# Topics
Quick answers
- Is GitLab in GSoC 2026?
- No. It last took part in 2025.
- How long has it taken part?
- 4 of 11 cycles since 2016, first in 2021.
- How many contributors does it usually take?
- 3.8 a cycle on average, 15 in total. Its largest cycle was 2025, with 5.
- What does it build with?
- Ruby, Go, Git, CI, DevOps, JavaScript and 3 more.
Accepted projects
5 projects in 2025 · All 15 projects since 2016
Kashkoush - Enhancing GitLab's Web IDE with Advanced Source Control Features
Ahmed KashkoushMentored by Enrique Alcantara
This project aims to implement essential Git operations in GitLab's Web IDE, eliminating inefficient repository cloning for common version control...
Show message if devfile is invalid before creating a workspace
Omar NasserMentored by Vishal Tak
Currently, devfile validation only occurs after the user submits the form to create a workspace. This means users only discover invalid devfiles...
Expand Vulnerability GraphQL Offering
Patrick HeMentored by Subashis Chakraborty
GitLab's security features help developers find vulnerabilities in their code, but the current API doesn't expose all the important information that...
[Deployment Management] Add Notification for expiring Deploy Tokens: E-mail and Webhook
Pratibha GuptaMentored by Timo Furrer
This project is a notification system that alerts its users before their deploy tokens expire. Deploy tokens are used to provide secure access to...
Protected Terraform States
Sahil SarawagiMentored by Ayush Billore
When managing cloud infrastructure through GitLab using Terraform, there is a critical security concern: any maintainer can make destructive changes...
Pajamas Migration - GitLab Foundations Team
Mughees PervaizMentored by James Rushford
I am writing to express my interest in contributing to GitLab's Pajamas Migration project as part of the Google Summer of Code program. As a computer...
Document the contributor journey to GitLab
Niku SinghMentored by Nick Veenhof, Daniel Murphy
This project aims to simplify the contribution process to GitLab by creating a detailed report for developers using both local and cloud-based...
Pajamas Migration - GitLab Foundations Team
Shane MaglangitMentored by James Rushford
GitLab has been pushing initiatives such as Pajamas Migration Days, Hackathons, and Internal OKRs to ensure that the platform’s interface aligns with...
Package Hunter for Kubernetes
Eileen YuMentored by Dennis Appelt, Ethan Strike
The project aims to bring Package Hunter, the malicious dependency detecting tool, to Kubernetes cluster, thus granting it more robustness,...
Benchmarking Framework for SAST
Martynas KrupskisMentored by Dinesh Bolkensteyn, Julian Thome, Isaac Dawson
GitLab integrates a variety of static analysis (SAST) tools that help to find vulnerabilities in the code as early in the development lifecycle as...
Add Support for Mailmap
Siddharth AsthanaMentored by Christian Couder, John Cai
GitLab uses Gitaly to read and write git data to the repositories. Gitaly provides RPC access to the git repositories. The RPCs that provide the...
Port SAST and Secret Detection rails platform code to GitLab CE project
Cyrine GamoudiMentored by Adam Cohen, Lucas Charles, Tetiana Chupryna
As part of GitLab's commitment to open source, features within Secure from the GitLab Enterprise Edition are making their journey to the Community...
Courseware as Code Enablement
Alejandro RusiMentored by Christina Hupy
Educational institutions, open-source projects and private organizations have the need to create and maintain educational content such as classes,...
Writing SAST Vulnerability Rules
Anshuman Singh-1Mentored by Ross Fuhrman, Julian Thome
Translate the analyzers used by GitLab presently into more robust and easy to maintain Semgrep (a lightweight static analysis tool) rulesets. To...
Geo Team Proposal: Improvements to backup and restore process
Shubham Kumar-1Mentored by Gabriel Mazetto, Aakriti Gupta
The backup and restore tools provided by GitLab are relied upon by administrators of GitLab instances as part of their disaster recovery strategy....
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8 contributors in 2026 · 10 cycles
OWASP Foundation
26 contributors in 2026 · 10 cycles
Debian
7 contributors in 2026 · 9 cycles
Meshery
5 contributors in 2026 · 2 cycles
Data: Google Summer of Code public archive. Contributor counts are accepted projects.