You might just consider working with the BuildBot project to add support for lighter weight build workers. Re-Re-Re-inventing the wheel is almost always wasted effort.
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 8:33 AM Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
