[Open Office] CWS for non-Domain Developer

[David Fraser]

Volker Quetschke wrote:
> David Fraser wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to find out what's involved in certain CWSs. Using EIS I can
>> see the issues attached to a CWS but not what actual files have been
>> changed and the changes made.
>> So what I'd really like to do is get a patch that corresponds to all the
>> changes made in that CWS.
>> The cws tools (and the ooo-build enhancement cws-extract) should be able
>> to do that.
>>     
> You can use Bonsai. <http://go-oo.org/bonsai/cvsqueryform.cgi>
>
> And once you know which modules are touched (cwsquery can help
> you with this task) you can also use cvs to get the actual patch.
> For example:
>
> $ cvs diff -u -rCWS_SRC680_VQ25_ANCHOR -rcws_src680_vq25 config_office
>   
Right, thats great, I'll try apply this knowledge...
So by just putting the cws branch name into bonsai and querying all 
changes since the beginning of time, I should get some useful info.
In practice however, I get a long wait and then a blank page :-)
Also cwsquery just says "Warning: web service unavailable. Trying backup 
server. ERROR: Connection to EIS database failed."
I'm not sure if this is because I'm not allowed to log in or because the 
web service is bad.
But it all underlines the fact that having some static files generated 
nightly or so would be a nice way around having to use tools that are 
sometimes unreliable :-)
>> However, because I'm not a Domain Developer and don't have a OOo CVS
>> account, I can't access the EIS SOAP service that lets you do that.
>> So two proposals:
>> 1) It would be nice to access the EIS SOAP service without a CVS write
>> account
>> 2) In the mean time, it would be nice if either EIS or some other web
>> site provided such patches. They need not be generated dynamically, a
>> nightly run of cws-extract would be great and they could offer static
>> links to the patches.
>>     
> Looks like you are looking for the Bonsai page ;)
>   
Thanks Volker
David