Tinderbox problem. Project of Open Letter to community.
We still have problem with official visibility and acceptance at mozilla.org. Kind of underground existance. Partly due lack of nightly official builds and tinderbox. I wrote in my bad English project of Open letter to be sent to BeOSJournal.org and ZetaNews.com, for discussion. To help Edward, who agreed to take that hard work for BeOS community pleasure. Need your opinion:


Support Firefox/Mozilla under BeOS - donate computer parts for tinderbox machine.

"Hello, our beloved BeOS community.
We, development team, wish to inform you about some problems, related to current state of Firefox/Mozilla for BeOS development.
Good news is that crisis is partially over, and we have small but quite creative team.
Bad news is that BeOS-port is still in limbo, in official sense.

What does it mean and what is problem?
Problem is that besides development as creating new code and patches, being part of big multiplatform project requires existance of process of permanent compilation and automated testing. Which shouldn't stop even for minute.

It is absolutely clear that this process cannot be accomplished on those computers, which are in use in development process itself and are in use for million of other task.
So there is special term for such dedicated machines - "tinderbox". It needs special configuration and maintenance.

Current/previous BeOS tinderbox is placed at mozilla.org but it is old, slow and dying.

Fortunately, there is person who is brave enough to take such less creative but very essential work, as bezilla.org maintainership and BeOS tinderbox maintenance. His name is Edward Dore.

Unfortunately, he lacks at moment such free from other tasks machine, which should be quite powerful.

And ideally, there must be separate tiderboxen for several task - e.g. separate boxes for Firefox and for Seamonkey, for netserver and for BONE/Zeta builds, but even single Seamonkey-netserver machine will be big help in official BeZilla reborn.

So, as we, BeOS community aren't backed at moment by any viable company, which may help us in such things, but good browser is one of most importan software pieces nowadays (IMHO more importan that Office Suite), there is call for donations.
It is not just about money, but rather about computer parts, reuqred for tinderbox building.


Regards, BeZilla development team, in care about your and our pleasure."