Debian uses Gitlab CI for quality assurance of thousands of software packages
Debian uses Gitlab CI for quality assurance of thousands of software packages
Debian developer Santiago Ruano Rincón explains the Linux distribution's custom solution for improving and expediting the open source software packaging process.
Salsa CI is one of the Debian community's custom-built continuous integration tools. It's part of the Debian GitLab instance (Salsa), and helps Debian maintainers manage roughly 9,000 projects.
I was expecting a huge CICD pipeline with delivery steps automatically publishing packages for Debian Unstable and Debian Testing, but it turns out it's a relatively simple pipeline with straight-forward build and testing stages.
Less is definitely more, and targeting Debian alone does greatly simplify a pipeline, but somehow I was expecting more automation taking care of the whole workflow.