Our current approach is to make code search available for Bronze/starter and above. We appreciate your feedback on enabling it for non-paid. This is the Epic we are working on, feel free to leave feedback here as well. https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1736

Thanks for the link and engaging with the community. That led me to https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/429 which sounds like a challenge.

Although not at GitLab.com scale, I've worked on a few search-related projects (often using Elasticsearch) in the past and would consider offering some ideas.

Does GitLab have a policy for attribution/licensing of technical design input from external contributors? (this is partly out of curiosity in general -- I don't know for sure whether I'd have anything to add that your team wouldn't already have thought of themselves)

We have made some solid progress on reducing the index size recently. This comment has a nice summary on the preliminary results of what we are working on. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/27918#note_353...

We always welcome the sharing of ideas and feedback. Just tag me on anything I should review. GitLab ID is @JohnMcGuire

We love external contributions. This page should help answer questions about contributing. https://about.gitlab.com/community/contribute/

Great, thank you!