We have a new dedicated list for the GNOME Continuous project: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-continuous-list
Background on Continuous: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeContinuous I believe GNOME Continuous is still presently the fastest of its scale[1] public automated continuous delivery[2] (not just CI, and not manual packaging) of an operating system. Let's look at the repository statistics as of today: $ ostree --repo=repo log gnome-continuous/buildmaster/x86_64-devel-debug | grep commit | wc -l 17296 Each tree is a result of one or more git commits to one of the > 300 git repositories actively tracked by Continuous, from NetworkManager, systemd, the Linux kernel, X.org, and of course the many, many git repositories that make up GNOME core and many applications. $ ostree --repo=repo log gnome-continuous/buildmaster/x86_64-devel-debug | tail -5 commit 0143dd0e484ee81637cf530611fb048012fc614c1369314fc631696377e043b5 Date: 2013-09-12 05:09:03 +0000 Compose That was the first commit in the current repository; then over ~377 days, that's an average of ~45 releases a day, with very little in the way of human intervention. Each release is booted, tested, and screeenshots taken. All of these builds presently occupy 153G: $ du -shc repo/objects 153G repo/objects One of the reasons I believe Continuous is so successful in fulfilling its design goal is by default it updates without human intervention, but we have the ability to *undo* - to un-ship when things break. This is radically different from the traditional model of distributions which update manually. At any point, if there's a bad commit to one of the input git repositories, it's very easy for a build administrator to just revert to a previous commit, and tell the upstream author. When it's fixed, we can untag. At the moment for example, both systemd and NetworkManager have been tagged pending resolution of issues: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-continuous/commit/?id=108653bc9f8e66bd19228f5bd8f2505b51263fe5 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-continuous/commit/?id=7f06173d7ce6085b2732a7190bf1fb7f64ff77e0 If you're interested in the system as a user or developer, please feel free to join the new list! [1] If you know of something that approaches the scale and speed and is delivering an OS (e.g. kernel + userspace with update system, let me know) [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_delivery _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list