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The target has been reached. Two noteworthy comments from the post, in the order I saw them.

"I'm the MD of Bytemark Hosting in the UK, and noticed that you'd asked for donations for a CyanogenMod build farm. We have a few machines that would meet your requirements (or can easily upgrade a couple) and increasing numbers of our staff think it is a very cool project. [...] Please email me - matthew(at)bytemark.co.uk - and let us know what your ideal systems would be." -- http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-needs-your-help#...

"Thank you all! The goal has been reached after 8 hours!!! You guys rock! [...] For those of you who volunteered hardware/servers, should the donation drive prove to be insufficient, we ask that you post your email or other contact info in the comments." -- http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-needs-your-help#...

I have a special kind of hate for (custom skinned BS company versions of) Android, and back when my Galaxy S crashed and burned, CM was here to bring it back from the dead. While I don't own an Android at the moment, I'll definitely donate.

Thank heaven for community supported firmware - Amen.

> If you’d like to contribute, please use the PayPal donation link at the bottom of the page

Hope PayPal doesn't freeze their account. There've been several stories on HN about people doing a donation fund-raise and suddenly getting frozen accounts.

I've read in the newspaper that a number of people are murdered in New York City every year. But just because you read about high profile cases in the news doesn't mean you're likely to be murdered.

Definitely avoid charging for CM - that will put a total damper on community enthusiasm. The better approach would be to rationalize builds - we don't have to have nightly builds. IMHO even weekly builds would be plenty.

Weekly builds would be fine if the nightlies never broke. But nightlies often do break. So you end up using yesterdays or the day before. But going in back in time with weeklies pushes you back much quicker.

However, there may emerge a development process that obviates some of those breakages.

Put the paypal link in the post! I'm sure that will increase donations significantly, not everybody wants to scroll down that long list of comments..

Thanks for the link. I don't use CM at the moment but recognize the importance of what they do and just donated.

As an aside, it would be great if they keep up support for N1 :)

They've reached their goal:

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/weve-reached-our-goal

How long does building 1 ROM take on decent hardware? Are we talking minutes, or closer to hours?

I never build one myself, but from my idling in #cyanogenmod-touchpad I think it's around 2, maybe 3 hours.

Building ICS takes at least 3-4 hours from what I've heard first-hand from people at my company that have done it.

To this day these guys have put a huge amount of effort into making our handsets awesome. They deserve even our most humble help.

Why do they need 50+ builds a day? Is that one configuration per handset? Do end-users need daily builds?

There are a lot of end-users willing to test the builds and provide feedback to the developers. So there's definitely a benefit for both sides.

And yes, there are builds for every handset. You can have a look at them at github[0].

[0] https://github.com/cyanogenmod

Continuous integration?

Can builds be done on a SETI at Home sort of arrangement?

probably not without serious security implications. I don't think there's a distributed java compiler available so you'd also have to write that first

Made a donation as a thank you for making my zte blade usable till I can afford an upgrade. Hope they keep up the good work.

Wish I could help, I am a big fan of CM. I have a spare newer poweredge, but I don't have any more room or power in my 1/3rd cabinet to rack it :(

CyanogenMod is not a for-profit business.

Maybe they should be.

been on CM since WiMAX/4g was added for the original Evo. $25 in, well deserved.

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