Selectors help you dynamically select a host in a pool of machines, according to its properties. Properties can be the agent version, number of CPUs, number of jobs currently running, or any parameter that you can gather on the host.

If you want to run a job on a specific host, whatever are its conditions, then you'll need to create a specific selector.

This articles shows the creation of a project for the opensource software Freemind in BuildForge, with all associated steps.

We'll assume there you have access to the Management Console, and that an agent has already be installed somewhere (either on localhost or remote host).

This article introduces the very basics of BuildForge.

This article describes the install of a BuildForge 7.1 agent on a GNU/Linux host, a Debian-based Mint Helena with 2.6.31 kernel. The agent is built from the sources provided with buildforge.

Usually the buildforge agent should run continuously on the host to answer requests from the server at any time. In our case, we specifically want to execute the agent manually on demand. For this we only need the binaries without installing the agent to the system (i.e. we won't execute the final install.sh step of install). We won't need the PAM module.

Buildforge management console server is in a VirtualBox virtual machine (with ssh tunnels to link client to server).

This article describes the install of a BuildForge 7.1 agent on a CentOS 5 GNU/Linux host (wihch is exactly the same as a RHEL5, by the way). The agent is built from the sources provided with buildforge.

Buildforge management console server is on the same host, but it should make no difference.

This article describes the setup of Subversion 1.4 and Apache in webdav mode on a GNU/Linux CentOS 5 host.

This is a Perl trigger to delete CRs on a Telelogic Change server from a shell.

It is intended to administrators, but be warned that the operation is irreversible. This script can be a Weapon of Mass Destruction for your database.

When piped with the get_report.pl script, it allows to query and delete a set of CRs (e.g. from a project) in one command. Think twice before using.

This is a Perl trigger to query CRs on a Change server from a shell.

Its main purpose is to execute periodical reports, and store the values e.g. in csv format. Command-line options allow to select attributes to be displayed and format of output.

When piped with the set_record script, it allows to query and modify a set of CRs (e.g. from a project) in one command.

This is a webtype to show a toggle as an icon. A click on the icon changes its status (true|false).

This is a Perl trigger to modify one or more CRs on a Change server.

It is mainly targeted at batch treatments. It can either take the problem_number's to modify on a command line or through standard input (one CR per line). You can pipe this script and get_report for batch modification of all CRs returned by a query.

When creating or editing a Change lifecycle, the complexity often leads to a lack of visibility on the overall attributes, crstatus and dialogs. 

The following xslt extract your cr_process information to text or html files.

The Short Introduction to Synergy/Change Administration contains some notes I wrote about Synergy/Change 4.3: administration, customisations, cr_process, webtypes...

Some aspects (e.g. template customisation) are still applicable to newer versions of Change.

A set of init scripts to start and stop Synergy and Change on Unix.

Just call the right version of the script (according to your Synergy/Change version) with the standard startup keywords: start, stop or restart.

In this article, we will install the Polarion ALM software on a CentOS 5 system and import the example data. We will follow for this the Polarion ALM installation guide that is available on the Polarion website.

Core CSAPI is a set of Java class files that provide pure Java access to a Telelogic Synergy Server. A few public methods provide convenient access to login and reporting functionnalities, thus hiding all the XML stuff in encapsulated classes. Design is intended to be easily extended, to add e.g. different reporting capabilities. This package can be used independently from the csplugin Eclipse plugin.

This is the csapi user manual, with links to more documentation.

CS plugin for Eclipse is a convenient wrapper for the csapicore Java API, integrated in the widely used Eclipse IDE. Features available today only include login and report.

You can see screenshots of plugin usage, or browse the forums.

Features:

• Save your user and system prefences.
• Login on server.
• Get Reports, choose query and attributes.
• Get Text Reports, comma-separated for import in other tools.

This article explains how to install the CSAPI plugin into eclipse the easy way (aka updates manager).

The preferred way to install the csapi plugin is through the update manager. It keeps a track of every software installed, and allows to come back to older versions if needed.

Help on setting the user preferences for the Eclipse plugin to access a specified Change server, login, database.

How to extract a Change report from the Eclipse plugin interface.