Ready for some practical tricks on how to use the build system? Create custom builds, deterministic builds, reproduce specific builds, and more!

The last year has seen some significant changes to how the build system operates and this post will walk through the technical aspects of the system. The release and development processes which drive the build system is out of scope for this post and subsequently left out.

There are a few moving pieces, so let's get started!

Style conventions are always a topic for debate. Everyone agrees that conventions are good, and simultaneously prefers their own conventions. Tools like Prettier were built in that particular kind of bikeshed. In that spirit, allow me to introduce two tools that consolidate our JavaScript conventions.

Now that the amount of build repos are ranging in the fifties, it's time for them to find a new home, and using the dhis2-ci bot-user, the organization d2-ci is set up.