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 The <http://git.liw.fi/liw-ci/tree/> repository has some .ick files,
 used by ick's author for his personal instances.
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+General advice
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+On each ick instance, set up one or more projects that build systrees.
+Build one for each target Debian release: `jessie`, `stretch`,
+`unstable`, etc. Build each of these projects to populate the artifact
+store with systree artifacts. Each actual project should use one of
+the artifacts to do the build in a container.
+
+When building in a container, you can install more things inside the
+container. If you build repeatedly, it may be worth having more than
+just the minimal container. Instead have an artifact with all the
+build dependencies installed, so each build does not have to start
+with installing them, saving time.
+
+Ick can build several things at once. As many things as there are
+workers. However, each build (currently) runs on one worker.
+
+There's currently no way to stop a triggered build.