We're making good progress. There's now a debian repo online that can be added to a devuan system. Then one can 'apt-get install hildon-desktop'. After making a few extra symlinks, the system will boot directly to hildon-desktop!

Currently this works on amd64.

There are automated builds set up for amd64 with jenkins, and armel and armhf will follow soon.

We'll need a bit more time to clean up the current state, add more features, but then we should be able to put it out there and ask people for help and contributions.