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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:51:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: Apache OpenOffice Extensions Website restored at SourceForge
From: Roberto Galoppini <rgaloppini@geek.net>
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Roberto Galoppini <rgaloppini@geek.net>w=
rote:
>
>> 2012/3/13 J=FCrgen Schmidt <jogischmidt@googlemail.com>:
>> > On 3/13/12 8:09 AM, Roberto Galoppini wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Here a quick update, see below.
>> >>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> The plan is to transparently migrate users authenticating at
>> >>>>> OpenOffice.org to the Extensions, by storing locally their
>> >>>>> credentials. For the time being their email addresses will stay
>> >>>>> @openoffice.org, but the idea is to migrate them all if we can get
>> >>>>> their alternative emails. In fact we assume many of them won't acc=
ess
>> >>>>> the Extensions website before the Oracle authentication system wil=
l
>> >>>>> shut down.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> AFAIK Oracle will not divulge alternative email. So, I think you wi=
ll
>> >>>> need
>> >>>> to let them recreate openoffice.org accounts and immediately
>> associate
>> >>>> these
>> >>>> with their issues.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm working with Roberto on this - I think we have a reasonable
>> solution
>> >>> in
>> >>> the works.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> We collaboratevely find a solution to the problem, and we are going t=
o
>> >> migrate Extensions and Templates users' accounts as soon as we'll get
>> >> all the necessary information. Once done users will be able to reset
>> >> their passwords through the "Lost password?" function.
>> >>
>> >> Keep in mind that starting from the 15th of March users will
>> >> eventually loose the opportunity to login using their openoffice.org
>> >> passwords, though.
>> >>
>> > thanks fir the update Roberto, can you tell me where we are with the
>> > extension update Url and the service behind. Do you need help to
>> understand
>> > what the service has done? We have to check the code to figure out how
>> the
>> > requests look in detail ...
>>
>> We have already investigated how it works, and we do actually serve
>> updates requests answering that there are no updates. This is just as
>> it was configured before.
>>
>> Any information about how the update protocol works would be helpful
>> for the future, though.
>>
>> Roberto
>>
>
> OK, I have an odd question. Is this the same "update protocol" that is us=
ed
> to update the actual base package -- i.e. OOo -- the same "update"
> capability that is currently missing from, say, the existing Linux 32-bit
> build?
>
> Roberto-- where can we get more info on what is actually being "served" i=
n
> response to update request? That is, the URL for it.

The two URLs are slightly different.

AOO Updates:
http://www.openoffice.org/ProductUpdateService/check.Update

Extensions Updates:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ExtensionUpdateService/check.Upda=
te

And we do manage the second one.


> *IF* the same "update protocol" is used for everything, base package and
> extensions, here is what I (we) know. Apparently, there was some
> proprietary tool in place from what I gather in which entries were
> (manually?) entered for "products". That tool created atom feeds at a
> specified URL which the "products/extensions" would then reference for
> updates.

I expect the two protocols to be nearly the same, but I do know very
little about how do they work, and we do know only how to return the
no updates available feedback at the moment.

Roberto

> In building, both Regina and Ariel were able to successfully test an
> "update" by creating an atom feed with a single entry for their respectiv=
e
> platforms (windows, linux-64 with debian packaging), and I think actually
> perform the update.
>
> There is information on the "format" of the feed on the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Update_Notification_Protocol
>
> but NOTHING about how the feed gets constructed.
>
> I have been wanting to experiment with adding more than one entry to the
> existing sample feed I ported =A0(usign Ariel's test) to:
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
>
> If someone knows enough to add more "entries" to this feed complying to
> "atom" rules, that would be great. I don't know anything about how
> "matches" occur in this context.
>
>
>> > In the extension manager dialog the user can ask for updates of instal=
led
>> > extensions ... But I am sure you are aware of this ;-)
>> >
>> > Juergen
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