CyanogenMod project appeals for help

The CyanogenMod project, which produces the most popular alternative ROMs for Android smartphones and other devices, has lost access to a large compute cluster which is used to create over fifty builds a day.

According to a message on the project's blog, it has been without this access for "quite some time", but with CyanogenMod 7.2 "ready to go" and the approaching release of CyanogenMod 9, the situation is now described as "quite a bit of a mess". Given that the nightly builds are the second most popular of all the CyanogenMod releases, the developers think they need to acquire sufficient hardware to rebuild their build system; the shopping list appears to be "a couple of solid, stable Xeon-class servers with large amounts of RAM and fast disks".