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Ye. CI systems can be beutiful. And in some companies you want some sort of formal sign off process. I am not dogmatically against CI.

> It survived all attempts to managerial reorgs, and thank god for that

The problem comes when it is cargo culted and forced I guess.

The temptation for some manager to rewrite the system you describe in Groovy and use Jenkins or integrate it into Jira! Imagine the possibilities of unnecessary work and complexity. A big opportunity cost.