Back in April I wrote an informal history of the BuildStream project: Status update: 23rd April 2026.

Things escalated and somehow I ended doing a podcast interview with Rich Bowen of the Apache Software Foundation recently, on the Apache PlusOne podcast:

Apache BuildStream — with Sam Thursfield – YouTube

Fame at last!

I didn’t get much time to prepare for this so excuse any clunky explanations or inaccuracies. My main aim was to place BuildStream and Freedesktop in context for an audience who don’t live and breathe operating system integration tools. I’m interested in your thoughts on how successful that was. Comments are enabled on the YouTube video so you can also fact-check us there as needed.