Would you be interested in this Python open source project?
Rhodri James
rhodri at kynesim.co.uk
Tue Oct 8 08:17:07 EDT 2019
On 08/10/2019 11:22, Simon Connah wrote:
> I'm posting this message as a way to gauge interest in the project and
> to see if it is worth moving forward with. There are probably hundreds
> of CI/CD tools out there and many more general devops tools but what I
> want to build is a CI/CD tool that ONLY supports Python 3.6 or greater
> and only runs on one Linux distribution (my preference is Ubuntu). This
> way configuration would be much more simple than the vast majority of
> devops tools which try to support every programming language that is
> popular (or so it seems) on many different Linux distributions and even
> Windows and macOS.
>
> My theory is that if you limit the devops tool to a very limited
> subsection of the available options the system will be easier to
> configure for users, more stable, easier to patch bugs in and generally
> just be a better all around things for Python developers.
>
> I'd love to hear some feedback on the idea.
>
I think your reasoning is sound. I probably wouldn't make a lot of use
of it, but I live in Embedded Systems land where it's notoriously hard
to do CI off the target silicon. Other people living in more tractable
problem spaces will probably be more enthusiastic.
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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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