[Libreoffice-qa] QA work with Windows Tinderbox builds -- need help

[V Stuart Foote]

Hello,
 
By way of introduction to the QA List I need some advice on working with the TinderBox builds for Windows.
 
I am currently looking at the problems with Java Accessibility - Java Access Bridge -- UNO accessibility mappings for the 3.6.x Windows builds  ( https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53474 )  David Tardon committed a patch that needs to be tested:
 
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commit;h=d475a059fc9f07f4d896bd67649c7d800fc66f6f 
 
I would like to do so, and I can follow the code base and commenting with Opengrok and gerrit for the most part, but I'm stumped about the TinderBox builds.  Assume the patch would be against a Master build, unless noted that it is being pushed down the 3.6 tree--but it looks like the MSVC Windows builds of Master are not running, and that the MinGW builds are "suspect".   
 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Tinderbox
http://tinderbox.libreoffice.org/MASTER/status.html
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/
 
Also, it looks like the builds of Master have only been bundling the directory tree as a gzipped tar--no packaging into an MSI.  Is there some setup help with steps to overlay an existing LibO installation/profile with an LOdev build to end up with a useable test install?
 
Thanks!
 
Stuart
 
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V Stuart Foote
Senior Systems Analyst
Geological Sciences
The University or Texas at San Antonio
 
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