I'm going to agree with Taesu here, and elaborate a bit.

Some potential employers these days are looking at interviewees commit calendars on GitHub; and this is something I can provide to show I'm a very productive coder.

"Go look at my commit history; see I sure do a lot of coding."

So I agree with you about keeping the information private, but I think this could be solved by doing something like this.

- Public Activity:

   Display detailed information. Commit number, message, repo. (What you are showing today)

- Private Activity;

  (Username) made X(number) of commits to private repo/s today.

I understand your reasoning, and realise that this is something potential employers look at.

That said, I don't think amount of activity or nr of commits should be indicative of anything for any good employer.

I also don't know if this is enough of an argument to change this in GitLab. I prefer to choose the privacy-preferable option.

If you want this maybe you can ask the applicant to take a screen-dump/print-to-pdf of the information you want.

maybe, just notification (light green to dark green) to indicate the commits. I just wish to show my potential employeers that I work privately in gitlab instead of github. regardless, this integrated CI inhouse is defiantely something that I really really looked for.

Even that would be leaking private information, no matter how minor it seems.

Good to hear you like the integration of CI.

Agreed, it's leaking private information. It would be awesome if the user could opt in to that leak. I feel the same way about Github - I wish I'd be able to show my full history (top) on my public profile page (bottom) http://take.ms/qiBMm

So make it an optional feature for people to enable on their own accounts?