It also delivers a collaboration environment, allowing developer groups to build and submit changes to other projects.

The latter offers up to 400 build slots,[6] but external services may impose limitations as to what packages are allowed to be hosted, so private installations are usually chosen when proprietary or legally problematic software is to be hosted.

On completion, the resulting binary packages are published instantaneously to the download server, which makes them available to the public.

The Build Service provides a public API[7] which is implemented in several user interfaces: Furthermore, a plug-in for integrating the Build Service into Eclipse is developed as a Google Summer of Code project,[9][10][11] as well as a plugin for Qt Creator.

[12] Instances can be linked, such that sources and packages from a remote host can be reused, thereby eliminating the need to bootstrap/import dependencies manually for preexisting projects.