It provides:

• a robust system for automatically checking new contributions against a variety of community accepted requirements
• the means to document a well defined supported interface for downstream projects
• tooling to help release managers generate release documentation based on the information provided by community issue trackers and source repositories

Most of the software is written in shell and scripting languages. In honor of the shell code, the project takes its name Yetus from a synonym of the Cymbium genus of gastropods.