[Open Office] CWS for non-Domain Developer

[David Fraser]

Martin Kretzschmar wrote:
> On 1/9/06, David Fraser <davidf at sjsoft.com> wrote:
>   
>> Volker Quetschke wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>     
>
> Probably because you're not allowed. For some CWSs, the list of modules is
> available here:
>
> http://go-oo.org/tinderbox/tags/tag-list
>   
That's helpful. The "not allowed" was what surprised me as it doesn't 
seem documented. I guess I could also scrape these out of the eis web 
page with a guest log in.
> I think this file is generated to allow tinderboxing for people who cannot run
> cwsquery. A parser for this must be somewhere in
>
> http://go-oo.org/tinder-scripts/
>   
I suspect not after looking through that code, they just seem to use it.
Anyway I now have a scraper that can get the list of modules from eis 
web page, so I'm getting there...

Cheers
David