Re:Why I've tentatively abandonded Aegis (Score 1)

Aegis is designed to eliminate several common classes of bugs. Already mentioned are who-broke-the-build, no-tests and no-code-review. Another source of disasters is do-everything-as-root.

There is no need to perform the entire Linux kernel build as root - only the final install requires root privilege.

I have quite successfully done linux kernel module development with Aegis, performing most operations as a simple user, and sudo for the few commands which require elevated privileges.