The document discusses the decline of continuous integration and its associated challenges such as blame, fear, and long branches. It proposes a solution involving a read-only master branch and a pull request system that promotes a stress-free, efficient merging process. The suggested approach aims to improve build success rates and developer discipline.

1. Continuous
Integration
is Dead

2. Yegor Bugayenko
Co-Founder and CTO
@yegor256

3. master
#45
#14 Mercurial
Subversion
CVS
ClearCase
SourceSafe
etc…

4. master
#45
#14
production

5. master
#45
#14
production
CI
server
Broken
Clean

6. “Crucially, if the build
fails, the development
team stops whatever
they are doing and fixes
the problem
immediately”
Jez Humble, p.55

7. Who Benefits
From This?
CTO
architect author
others?
product
owner

8. What Happens in
Reality?

9. What About
Discipline?
1.blame
2.fear
3.long branches
4.throw-away
5.losses

10. What Is The Solution?

11. master
#45
#14
CI
server
merger

12. Master is read-only
Only pull requests
Trigger merge in PR
Trigger merge in PR
githubrultor

13. 1. 95% builds are green
2. No fear of breaking master
3. No blame, no stress
4. Quick and small branches

14. www.yegor256.com
@yegor256