dsari was written to scratch a personal itch: I wanted a lightweight CI environment for Finnix builds, but had grown beyond what simple cron scripts could provide. I had been using Jenkins, but found the Java and memory requirements to be excessive, especially on armhf builders. So I went and began writing my own scheduler, but generally didn't want to take myself too seriously.
Preserved below is the original README.md, written before any code had been produced. Enjoy!
dsari is described as a "Jenkins killer", in that I want to kill Jenkins. It is a small scheduler which does something (something you configure) and records the output (somewhere).
- Write a small script which does 85% of the features I need, and a random handful of features I don't really need.
- Deploy it and forget about it for the next year or so.
- Add a handful of extra features.
- Realize six other people are also using dsari, two of which have filed a combined 76 bugs and feature requests.
- Fix three of the bugs.
- Implement two of the feature requests.
- Mark the other 71 WONTFIX.
- Add a bunch more functionality, making the entire project unwieldy and complex.
- Rename the project after a C&D from a commercial project with a similar name.
- Rewrite the entire project in Go.
- Abandon the project.
- Sourceforge picks up the project files, wraps them in malware and re-releases them.