Why
The Vision
There are hundreds of packages which make up the Operating System. Making sure that they all work together as a whole is not an easy task. This becomes even harder as the number of packages and their inter-dependencies grows. An extensive testing is required before a new version of the operating system is released to ensure it is stable enough. That is the past.
Imagine an Always Ready Operating System which consists of packages which are constantly kept in a good shape. Integrated and stable thanks to an extensive test coverage which is continuously executed upon changes in individual packages, in this way allowing to prepare a new release in much shorter time, or even in no time.
Imagine an operating system distribution which you could release at any moment. This is where we are heading. Here comes the CI, Continuous Integration, as an invaluable tool to ensure everything is working together as expected in every point of time.
CI Manifesto
Continuous integration aims to ensure broken changes are revealed as soon as possible and do not affect other developers, packagers, maintainers or users. The feedback that continuous integration provides is vital for fast paced agile delivery of software. Late testing, long after a change occurs, does not scale to the pace of Fedora. Learn about the steps that are crucial for a working Continuous Integration in the CI Manifesto.