GitLab team member here. Thanks for your feedback.
> Request: The new UI has "Admin" link hidden which is hard to find. I liked the old UI better (explicit is better than implicit).
This was reported in the new navigation feedback issue [0] and is being worked on in [1]. Suggest adding your comment/upvote there too.
> Question: Is the open source code the same as the Enterprise versions of the code? (how do you implement feature differences?)
The source code for GitLab is located in a single repository. The change was proposed and introduced in 2019 for efficiency reasons [2] [3] [4]
You can learn more about the stewardship of GitLab, and the promises in [5] - point 11) links to the enterprise code location, and the free open source location.
This workflow also ensures that everyone can contribute to GitLab [6] - free users, and customers [7], using the same code base.
> Request: The new UI has "Admin" link hidden which is hard to find. I liked the old UI better (explicit is better than implicit).
This was reported in the new navigation feedback issue [0] and is being worked on in [1]. Suggest adding your comment/upvote there too.
> Question: Is the open source code the same as the Enterprise versions of the code? (how do you implement feature differences?)
The source code for GitLab is located in a single repository. The change was proposed and introduced in 2019 for efficiency reasons [2] [3] [4]
You can learn more about the stewardship of GitLab, and the promises in [5] - point 11) links to the enterprise code location, and the free open source location.
This workflow also ensures that everyone can contribute to GitLab [6] - free users, and customers [7], using the same code base.
[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/409005#what-we...
[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/415854
[2] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/02/21/merging-ce-and-ee-c...
[3] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/08/23/a-single-codebase-f...
[4] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/10/02/contributor-after-s...
[5] https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/company/stewardship/#pr...
[6] https://about.gitlab.com/community/contribute/
[7] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/contributing/#contrib...