Add: manifesto for Ick

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@@ -11,7 +11,30 @@ Why yet another CI system?
 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.
+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.
+
+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.)
 
 
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@@ -35,3 +58,5 @@ Project management
 * [[Development blog|blog]] (see [[feeds|blog_feed]] also).
 * [[Tips on various topics|tag/tip]]
 * [[Issue tracking|issues]] ([direct link](http://ick-devel.liw.fi/))
+  - Also, any mails sent to `ick-devel@liw.fi` get imported into the
+    issue tracking automatically.