@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Our stewardship promise allows other companies and organizations to provide a Sa
## What Features Are Paid-Only
To determine what is open source and what not we ask ourselves: **[Who cares the most about the feature](/handbook/company/pricing/#buyer-based-open-core)**.
To determine what is open source and what not we ask ourselves: **Who cares the most about the feature**.
If the likely buyer is an individual contributor the feature will be open source, otherwise it will be source-available (proprietary).
There aren't any features that are only useful to managers, directors, and executives.
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All stages of the [DevOps lifecycle](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#scope) have at least some features available in GitLab Core. There are companies using GitLab Core with more than 10,000 users.
If people ask us why a certain feature is paid we might reply with a [link to this section of the handbook](/handbook/company/stewardship/). We do not mean to imply you don't need the feature. Feel free to [make the argument](/handbook/company/pricing/#changing-tiers-and-pricing-changes) for moving it to another tier, we're listening.
If people ask us why a certain feature is paid we might reply with a [link to this section of the handbook](/handbook/company/stewardship/). We do not mean to imply you don't need the feature. Feel free to make the argument for moving it to another tier by opening an [issue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items).
If the wider community contributes a feature that is currently source-available we use the process linked in
[Contributing an existing feature to open-source it](#contributing-an-existing-feature-to-open-source-it).
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ The meeting agenda is generally as follows:
- Introduce Topic of interest and provide background information
- Demonstrate in GitLab's platform where the topic fits in and announce the [GitLab Stage](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#devops-stages) it belongs to
- Articulate the benefit of the Topic for our customers in APJ
- Clearly articulate which [GitLab Tier](/handbook/company/pricing/) the topic is benefited from
- Clearly articulate which [GitLab Tier](/handbook/marketing/brand-and-product-marketing/product-and-solution-marketing/tiers/) the topic is benefited from
- Document your main finding in the internal bi-weekly GitLab New Release meeting document
The meeting is scheduled regularly and on a bi-weekly basis. The meeting is hosted via Zoom and the Meeting Agenda is shared via gdrive Docs and available internally.
