The customers didn&#x27;t understand that they paid to get access to an Enterprise Edition that had an open source license.<p>If people forked CE to add features of EE we would wonder why we didn&#x27;t merge those in. For our criteria for merging features that are currently EE only please see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;#stewardship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;#stewardship</a>