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+# System development
+
+Redpill systems are developed by multiple efforts in parallel.
+
+Production systems are configured by hand
+using Redpill conventions,
+on mostly conventional hardware devices.
+
+Experimental systems are configured semi-automated
+using Boxer bootstrapping
+and Redpill conventions,
+on mostly OSHA-certified hardware devices.
+
+Goal is to compose all Redpill systems purely with Boxer
+on purely OSHA-certified hardware.
+
+
+## Box
+
+The "box" project in the tinker team composes "profiles".
+Device-specific "core" profiles provided as readily usable images,
+with addon profiles embedded as system-expansion shell scripts.
+
+Goal is for the "box" project to become obsolete,
+replaced by short sensible one-liner boxer commands.
+
+
+## Boxer data
+
+Boxer classes and nodes are expressed as YAML data.
+
+Tweaks should be pushed upstream into appropriate Debian packages
+e.g. using debconf.
+
+Goal is to auto-resolve boxer data from apt where possible
+and obsolete all tweaks.
+
+
+## Boxer tool
+
+Goal is to provide same configurability at runtime
+as debian-installer provides at install time,
+either executing boxer directly or using boxer-generated scripts,
+and offer dynamic runtime-resolved equivalent of metapackages.