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DESCRIPTION:In June 2026\, the FreeBSD entries in dozens of upstream `.cirr
 us.yml` files became dead code. For roughly five years\, Cirrus CI had bee
 n doing\; almost invisibly\; what FreeBSD's own internal CI was never desi
 gned to do: making it trivial for upstream open-source projects (LLVM\, Ru
 st\, Python\, PHP\, Node.js\, libuv\, curl\, and others) to test their sof
 tware against FreeBSD on every pull request\, with no infrastructure for t
 hem to operate. That capability is now gone. Nothing in the current market
  replaces it.\n\nThis talk argues that FreeBSD's adoption ceiling is set b
 y whether upstreams can test on FreeBSD\; not just by whether we can test 
 FreeBSD ourselves. It works through four threads: what Cirrus quietly solv
 ed between 2019 and 2026\, and why most of the community didn't notice\; t
 he current landscape of partial substitutes (vmactions/freebsd-vm\, self-h
 osted Jenkins\, the GitHub Actions BSD gap\, the in-tree pre-commit toolin
 g) and why none of them fits the shape of the upstream-facing problem\; wh
 y no individual developer can plug this gap\, and why this is a company-sc
 ale problem rather than a hobby one\; and what FreeBSD is already paying f
 or the absence\; in enterprise procurement conversations\, contributor att
 rition\, and quiet drop-outs in upstream release notes.\n\nThe talk closes
  with a five-point specification for what a viable successor would have to
  look like\, and asks three groups in the room for specific action: the Fr
 eeBSD community\, the Foundation and enterprise users\, and the upstream m
 aintainers themselves.\n\nForty minutes\; five for questions. Technical\, 
 opinionated\, assumes the audience knows what make buildworld does.
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SUMMARY:make buildworld && make install-future: Why FreeBSD's Adoption Stor
 y Runs Through Continuous Integration - Moin Rahman
URL:https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/EA98CK/
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