This week I have been working on building my own derived bootc image. My goal with this is to create a small server image that I can deploy to a raspberry Pi to get a side project of mine up and running again. I’m also hoping it can become a potentially useful server image (or even something desktop-capable) for my University’s LUG, who previously built a themed Fedora Spin called TigerOS.
Currently Ive been struggling to get this container image to build within the limits of GitLab’s free CI, but I’m hoping to have something demonstrable/useful in the next week or so.
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See you next week, and be sure to stop by #bootc:fedoraproject.org to post your updates and hang out with the community!
Thanks for these updates! Maybe I should also have added a “help wanted” entry for locating some way to auto-post these merge events from gitlab and auto-post them to the channel (webhooks? idk).
Ultimately this kind of automation would make the inclusion of these git event updates a lot more reliable. The bot process is still quite limited to what gets posted in the matrix room, largely to keep the workload for everyone pretty low. If updates make their way to the channel, then its pretty straightforward to tell the bot to suggest one or more specific categories for those posts that can be confirmed by an editor with an emoji reaction.
I’d eventually like to start having other editors practice using the bot so that there’s adequate coverage in case people are unexpectedly busy/on PTO, etc so that BCTW increases its bus factor and becomes a reliable news source for the community