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? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
