- Tinderbox (software)
Infobox_Software
name = Tinderbox
caption =
collapsible = yes
developer =Mozilla Corporation ,Mozilla Foundation
status = Active
latest_release_version = 2.0
latest_release_date = release_date|2008|04|25
latest_preview_version =
latest_preview_date =
operating_system =Cross-platform
size =
programming_language =
genre =Continuous integration
license = MPL/GPL/LGPL/ [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/legal/eula/ Mozilla EULA] (for binary redistribution)
website = http://www.mozilla.org/tinderbox.htmlTinderbox is a
software suite that providescontinuous integration capability. Tinderbox allows developers to managesoftware builds and to correlate build failures on various platforms and configurations with particular code changes.Tinderbox is described as "a detective tool for software development". It allows the developer to see what is happening in the
source tree . It shows who checked in what (by asking Bonsai); what platforms have built successfully; what platforms are broken and exactly how they are broken (the build logs); and the state of the files that made up the build (cvsblame).Tinderbox is composed of a server with clients running builds and reporting status via mail. The server receives mail from tinderbox clients in the form of
tinderbox: tree: SeaMonkey tinderbox: builddate: 1021331520 (...) tinderbox: status: success tinderbox: END (full build log)
The server then constructs a table with time on the vertical axis and the various builds on the horizontal axis.
Tinderbox is maintained and hosted by the
Mozilla Corporation . Well-known projects utilising tinderbox technology includeMozilla andFreeBSD . It is written inPerl and is released under the sametri-license as the rest of Mozilla's software, making itfree and open source software .See also
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Bugzilla
*BuildBot External links
* [http://www.mozilla.org/tinderbox.html Mozilla's Tinderbox homepage] , describing version 1
* Ken Estes's [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tinderbox/ Tinderbox 2.0] server re-write
* John Keiser's [http://www.johnkeiser.com/mozilla/tbox3.html Tinderbox 3]
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238720 Tinderbox3 documentation] on [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org Mozilla's Bugzilla]
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