What if all Debian/Ubuntu based dists used TKLDev?

Imagine if every Debian distribution in the world in the world was using TurnKey's build chain and collaborating with us on its development instead of limping along with various inefficient ad-hoc tools?

TurnKey currently doesn't get as many contributions back from the free software community as we'd like (our fault). I think there are two main reasons for that:

1. We too started out with an ad-hoc development process and it took us too long to clean up our act, rework everything and fully open up the development process with TKLDev.
2. We haven't done enough targeted outreach

I'd love for that to change and I think promoting more people to use TKLDev is key to that. It would be really good for TurnKey, good for the Debian community, and good for free software innovation.

So far we've been thinking mainly of convincing people who would never otherwise develop a Linux distribution to use TKLDev to do that, but isn't that a much harder sell than say ... the people who are already developing Linux distributions?

We wouldn't need to convince them to do something they haven't done before but rather improve the way they're doing something that they are already motivated/committed to doing.

So I think it would be a really good, high-leverage idea to compile a list of contacts for all Debian/Ubuntu based dists and get a dialogue going with the intention of educating them to the benefits of using TurnKey's 100% free software build system and encouraging them to collaborate with TurnKey.

I mean, what better way to bolster TurnKey's standing in the community than by helping out the many free software projects who are already developing Debian based distributions and share our values?

It will be a win-win. TurnKey gets exposed to more developers, increases its prestige in the community and increasing the likelihood of getting contributions back.

Developers accelerate development of their own projects and maybe join forces on some level and contribute improvements back to TurnKey. I bet most of those we convince to try it will realize it is better than whatever they are currently using, especially once we add in a few more specialized features such as deterministic builds.

What do you guys think?