Would you be interested in this Python open source project?

[Simon Connah]

On 08/10/2019 13:17, Rhodri James 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.
>
Thank you for your reply. I'll keep working on this project and see how 
it turns out. I'm quite excited about it actually as I find that most 
CI/CD systems are so complicated when it comes to simple tasks. I want 
to build something where the developer spends 10 minutes reading the 
documentation and then can do 90% of what he needs with no more hand 
holding or Googling.