goals

develop a decentralized distributed build system, with agents doing the real work
rust - be native, lightweight, and fast as shit. Run as a daemon, use tried and true unix apis.
focus on scripting as the configuration of a job, bash, python, ruby etc.
Low administrative overhead, focus on workflows through the cli, don't get caughtup with fancy user interfaces(they're all fads and they look terrible in eventually).
Allow anyone to access the rest interfaces to develop any user-interface they want.
job controll mainly through command line and chat/bot interfaces
decentralized logging - event system communicates log, after logging locally to a file, fire event for log messages(buffer and compress these logs).
fault tolerant leader election(paxos/raft?)
clients that can re-attach to their leader, once the leader has moved
agents run in docker containers, as well as the leader
leader and agent are just modules, an agent can become the leader when the leader is lost(paxos, raft?)
be better than Jenkins(and buildbot, etc.) at everything.
be a little like quartz, only better at everything also.
run in Docker ( or not ).

Features

masterless. All agents are capabable of being a leader.
templates for builds deploys based on common scenarios sbt, maven, cargo, npm etc. ** do build in docker container ** run build in ec2 instance or other cloud provider
event oriented - use an event bus to communicate build events, failures, starts, re-starts, custom messages, lifecycle events.
prioritize mvn, npm, etc. as first couple of builders
Chat ** notify committer direclty based on preference of their build failures through chat ** allow interaction with build job through chat.
labels on "agents", jobs can provide labels and agents consume jobs by matching labels labels.
interactive build repl with colorized display

job control / scheduler - command executor
logging - agents log, the logs are viewable from any agent or repl.
build agent - process build and deployment jobs, log locally and broadcast log messages.
repl - an interactive command line interface for dealing with the agents/jobs/schedules etc.
leadership mgmt/discovery - etcd/zookeeper/paxos/raft like

Rustoleum is just getting started. The name is really just a placeholder, if it sticks fine, but I'm sure there must be a better name.

If you're interested in contributing, jump on irc, and fork the repo.

#rustoleum on irc.freenode.net