Hi,

* eric.bachard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-02 15:28:54]:

> I am proud to announce you, we received a donation from
> OpenOffice.org e.V. project, for a PowerMac G5 2,3GHz, with 2GB of
> ram, for an amount of 3000 euros.
> 
> This machine will be used as a tinderbox, for automated builds, and
> maybe more for development (remotely and locally).
> 
> Installation, configuration and administration of this tinderbox
> will be made by Maxime Petazzoni, student in 3rd year at UTBM.
> 
> Stay tuned :-)

During this semester, I will be working on setting up this box as an
automate builder of OpenOffice.org for MacOS X, using the Tinderbox
scripts for the Mozilla Foundation
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tinderbox).

As Eric stated, the aim of this project is to provide the MacOS port
team performant hardware to build the current MacOS X version
OpenOffice.org, as well as the upcoming native port using Cocoa.

My role in this project is to setup and monitor the box. The reasons
why I accepted to take part in this project are simple : learning. I
don't know much about OpenOffice.org development or building process,
nor about MacOS X systems administration. It's a perfect opportunity
for me to learn new things and to join the OO.org project.

The Tinderbox project will be run jointly with my school (where Eric
teaches) : they will provide final hardware hosting and
bandwidth. Unfortunately, our school upload bandwidth is for the
moment to low to make the build results available to the public, but
we aim to take advantage of this project to make our school request
larger bandwidth.

An administration documentation will also be written in order to make
the setup easily passed to another admin.

During the last stage of the project, when the box will be fully set
up and running, I may also take part to OO.org development or bug
squashing.

Thanks for your attention, and I hope I made the things a bit more
clearer about how we will use this generous donation !

- Sam

PS: http://blog.bulix.org/pub/tmp/powermac-g5.jpg << here is the
box, at first boot ;)

-- 
Maxime Petazzoni (http://www.bulix.org)
 -- gone crazy, back soon. leave message.

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