The time to move WP to git was 3-4 years ago... That WP doesn’t invest more heavily in these types of fundamentals I feel is a result of its overall lack of steering and leadership of the project. Release leads themeselves are awesome, but they’re also limited to making very incremental changes.

I don’t love the the Drupal/Aquia model but envy that they get big things done.

PS, GitLab is awesome, we moved everything there 3 years ago and couldn’t be happier.