Are you asking help for testing the package right? The bugs found reported via bugs in debian or mails to the list?
My initial hope was to provide updates via stretch-backports, but sudden explosion of nodejs front end dependencies made that impossible. Now all nodejs modules are installed via npm/yarn and gitlab is moved to contrib.But is this situation temporally? or do you plan to continue in this way in Buster?
More than a 100 node module packages are stuck in NEW for over 5-7 months and not sure how to get it back in main. If you'd like to help, please volunteer with ftp team and help process the node modules.I understand that when this packages were in main, gitlab will move to main again. Is this correct?