[scribus] Request to all bug testers and potential reporters

[FirasH]

On 08/10/14 14:59, john Culleton wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 08:58:10 -0500
> Kunda Loves Scribus <scribus.user at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> This is an unofficial request.
>>
>> 1.5.0 release is just around the corner due to
>> a decision that the roadmap (on the bugtracker)
>> be limited strictly for crash bugs. The idea is
>> that the next dev release version occur as soon
>> and as stable as possible.
>>
>> So the request here is that if you've noticed
>> some unstable 1.5.0svn activity that leads to a
>> crash, please attempt to examine it better so
>> that you can reproduce the steps and report on
>> Mantis. If you've been postponing to post a bug
>> because you haven't had the time for it, now
>> would be a good time to make the time for it.
>>
>> A great example of a succinct and thorough bug
>> report would be
>> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12477
>> (props to FirasH, bug reporter extraordinaire).
>> Clear step-by-step instructions with an
>> attached gdb stack trace (the stack trace is
>> optional, though highly preferred because it
>> helps facilitate a solution faster).
>>
>> Please also check to see if the issue you
>> encounter has been reported already before you
>> report. If so, please notate the issue that
>> exists with feedback that you can reproduce on
>> the platform/distro version and Scribus version
>> + revision #
>>
>> FYI, please compile 1.5svn from HEAD to do the
>> testing. There are several guides out there to
>> help with doing that for certain platforms and
>> distros. If you need help please make yourself
>> heard on IRC or here.  If you can offer any
>> patches please be forthcoming with them, though
>> remember that it takes work for the devs to
>> examine patches so create them per scribus
>> coding-style requirements.
>>
>> Thanks again for your participation and
>> attention. Cheers,
>> /Kunda
>
> I have always built 1.5.0 using this svn command
> at the beginning:
> svn co svn://scribus.net/trunk/Scribus s150
>
> Is this the current path to 1.5.0? If not what
> should I use?
>
>
>
>
That's correct!

If for any reason you don't remember the exact
path you can use
"svn update"
inside of the Scribus source directory and it will
get the latest code as well.

Bye,
FirasH