[scribus] Request to all bug testers and potential reporters

[john Culleton]

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?




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