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Drone is a Continuous Integration platform built on Docker

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I'm glad to see more options becoming available for CI, especially ones that are easy to maintain and deploy. Basing Drone on Docker with few external dependencies is a plus. I'm also glad to see support for Cassandra and all the other databases.

However, I do see a lot of CI systems depend on Github as the repository, as Drone appears to do, and I would appreciate a more generic, flexible approach to that issue.

Bitbucket integration should land this week. We open sourced our Go Bitbucket API which was the first step: https://github.com/drone/go-bitbucket

There is also a thread going for adding other sources: https://github.com/drone/drone/issues/10

It took about 24 hours for a GitHub enterprise patch to land, so I'm sure we'll support many other options pretty quickly.

Excellent - thanks for the info. I am more than ready to relieve Mr. Jenkins of his duties.

Buildbox.io has flexible VCS support. You can use anything you want! You don't even need to use GitHub.

Sounds nice. They have a different business model. drone.io is free for public projects.

I also think the Go+Docker factor is something for those who are into this kind of things.

Can I deploy it on my servers?

I thought it was about this. https://drone.io/

It is. drone.io is open sourced and can be ran on your own servers.

Is there a plan to support building docker images?

yes, this feature will land in the next few weeks. I'm hoping you'll be able to build the Docker image AND push to the index.

Awesome, this is something I've been searching for recently, a nice interface for continuously building docker images and pushing them to an index.

Having the intermediate steps still cached would be spectacular, so incremental builds are fast. That's something that concerns me a bit about wercker as it always builds in a clean environment.

For anyone else wanting to follow this, here's the issue: https://github.com/drone/drone/issues/1

Haha all the proud mercenaries of HN quick to shoot down any hint of politics in their little world... A good number of us INside the US (not to mention Europe and elswhere) would certainly think twice about using a tool called drone. A lot of us want our government to stop killing people by remote, is that such a strange point to make? It is really quite an ignorant name to use, as bachback said.

might be a good project, but with that type of name, you're not going to attract customers outside the US, a good fraction of which will think drone => drone strike. the name is reserved for killer machines, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drone_strikes_in_Pakist.... Time to think about how silicon valley fits in with the rest of the world.

It's a perfectly fine word: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=drone%2C+drone....

if you are an ignorant, unethical person in the US maybe, but not if you live in Yemen or Pakistan. its such a perfect illustration of how blind people can be.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-drone-strikes-stirrin...

This is literally the most surreal chain of comments I have ever read on HN. The word drone is not 'reserved' for anything and the rest of your attempted call to action is just bizzare.

Yeah, it's pretty high up there.

In the non-English speaking world, the word drone has come to mean "death machine in the sky."

Not everyone speaks English. Certainly in Europe, if you ask someone what 'drone' means, not many will use the tonal definition of the term ..

Are you serious or are you just trying to write the most caricatural HN comment? Besides, I doubt this is targeted (pun intended) at people living in remote areas of Yemen or Pakistan that are typically the target of military drones.

well, I guess you're an US citizen. so you will not understand, because you're living in a bubble. and your derogative answer just shows what a person you are. perhaps I'm in Yemen and my friend was killed in a drone. how can you dare making such comments?

I'm French, born in Paris from a Dutch mom and a Syrian dad. Lived part of my childhood in Syria, France and then years in Peru where my wife's from. What were you saying again?

get some ethics? making jokes about drone killings is disgusting.

what joke? You really need to chill out and stop lecturing people. What are you, 12?

Oh no, 7 Billion people on this planet and they forgot the meaning of "drone" for Yemen or Pakistan, the greatest IT nations on the planet ;-)

By that somewhat twisted logic bee keepers better start changing their terminology as well [1]. I'm a European and didn't even make the connection, despite being well informed and up-to-date about the state of affairs in Pakistan and elsewhere that US and friends choose to fly these machines.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)

we bought the drone.io domain name back before Drones were all over the news. We thought this definition of Drone, "a unit which takes commands from a primary source" made sense for a cloud-based CI solution.

It does make sense, but of course you can expect this useless line of comment to follow you around because certain people want to make everything about politics.

I would suggest making your logo evocative of the entomological meaning (e.g. a bee, ant, etc.), if you want to dispel that somewhat.

that's a great suggestion. a robotic bee could be awesome

Follow you around like a drone eh? Look, we're not the ones who politicized the term. A robotic bee mascot is not going to put off people's discomfort. Which is unfortunate because it looks like a really promising tool for CI...

cf. "The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program", published yesterday... https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-ns...

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