Debian uses Gitlab CI for quality assurance of thousands of software packages

Otto@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev – 31 points – Debian customizes CI tooling with GitLab
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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.

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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.