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by tomxor 2394 days ago
> Few things are as aggravating to me as people who say they understand CD but then manage avoid practicing any of the tenets of CI.

It is completely reasonable to utilise one without the other, not all projects are giant multi author efforts trying to wrangle commits.

For instance if you have lots of small projects being worked on independently in parallel with no more than one or two authors on a repo at a time, CI is not going to be worth the investment... but CD still has it's uses.
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jdlshore 2394 days ago
Small-scale CI is trivial to set up. A build script and integration VM is all you need. If it's difficult, there's most likely hygiene factors in your codebase that are worth resolving.

https://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Continuous-Integration-on-a-...

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greglindahl 2394 days ago
It took me a few minutes to set up CI for each of my smallish open source modules - and it caught problems with older Python versions quickly.

How am I doing it wrong?

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