I had no idea Costel maintained Aminet, interesting to know.
Gitlab is nice too and you can also use it on your own server. I used mentioned Github as I am more used to it.
In any case, this reminds me of the product company I worked at a few years back. We developers made a release and then marketing did their stuff. Writing press releases, talking about sports, taking coffee breaks and god knows all they were up to, not always getting the release out the door asap it felt like. We seldom communicated release dates as it was notoriously hard to predict it, we developers slipped in late corrections, had to re-test and marketing had their rituals. It was better when we could hand out nightly builds to customers in need, as we could skip most procedures.
The "funny" part was that marketing did not even want a lot of releases as they could not handle it. We developers had lots of automation, so we could quite easily crank out new releases, but it was a different story in marketing.