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This project was formerly known as "GNOME-OSTree".

"gnome-continuous" is a continuous integration and deployment system for Linux kernel-based operating systems, designed from the ground up for GNOME, maintained on a volunteer basis by some GNOME contributors. It is not an official product.

The project was born to solve a seemingly simple problem:

The GNOME designers need to be able to try what they're designing, as it's being implemented.

To fulfill this, the gnome-continuous build system watches for commits to many git repositories (mainly GNOME, but including NetworkManager, systemd, X.org, polkit), builds them, integrates them into a complete filesystem tree that can be downloaded using the OSTree tool. But going beyond simply building, the system also automatically boots the build result in a virtual machine, then runs tests. What makes this system different from many previous GNOME build systems is:

It is almost completely automated in a sustainable fashion; very few changes require human intervention
It produces an actual downloadable result in the form of ready-to-run virtual machine images
It is very, very fast. What other projects talk about doing "nightly", gnome-continuous does in minutes.