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+[[!meta title="Ick—About"]]
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+[[!img ick-logo.svg width=300 height=300 class=float_right]]
+
+**Ick** will be a continuous integration system. It is currently in
+development, and will hopefully reach the first ALPHA release in the
+not too distant future.
+
+**Why yet another CI system?** Ick aims to become a system that's
+**less hassle** to set up or operate or keep running than any other
+publically available self-hosted system, without compromising
+correctness or security.
+
+See [[origin|blog/2017/10/10/origin]] for a description of how Ick got
+started.
+
+
+Manifesto
+=============================================================================
+
+Continuous integration (CI) is powerful tool for software development.
+It should not be tedious, fragile, or annoying. It should be quick and
+simple to set up, and work quietly in the background unless there's a
+problem in the code being built and tested.
+
+A CI system should be simple, easy, clear, clean, scalable, fast,
+comprehensible, transparent, reliable, and boost your productivity to
+get things done. It should not be a lot of effort to set up, require a
+lot of hardware just for the CI, need frequent attention for it to
+keep working, and developers should never have to wonder why something
+isn't working.
+
+A CI system should be flexible to suit your build and test needs. It
+should support multiple types of workers, as far as CPU architecture
+and operating system version are concerned.
+
+Also, like all software, CI should be fully and completely free
+software and your instance should be under your control.
+
+(Ick is nothing of this yet, but it will try to become all of it. In
+the best _possible_ taste.)