On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Daniel Watkins wrote:
> The crux of this message is this:
> As a non-programmer, what can I do to help towards LyX 1.4.0 being released.
Testing this would probably be very helpful.
> I've read that patches need testing but I don't know which patches these
> are, and where I could find a list of them.
Ok, I'm assuming you've been able to compile LyX already, otherwise you
need to start in that end.
The patches people talk about might be available through bugzilla - or at
least the should [1]. When someone refers to e.g. bug 2212 you can the bug
in bugzilla here:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/
where you just enter 2212 in the search field. This actually points you to
this page
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2212
so you could probably just have guessed the URI directly :-) Anyway, on
this page you can find the link to any submitted pathes. For instance,
the link text "Fix for all three front-ends" points to a patch with this
URI:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/attachment.cgi?id=949&action=view
I'm pretty sure I got this right, but to be honest I've never used a patch
from bugzilla. Anyway, have a look on the bug pages and see if you find
the patches. As for finding the bugs, I hope someone gives you a list of
bugs with patches that need to be tested. If they don't very soon, ask
explicitly for them! Then just ask questions as you encounter problems.
cheers
Christian
[1] Sometimes the patch was just sent as an attachment to the development
list, but not being a coder for LyX I'm unsure. I'm also guessing it's
better adding patches to the corresponding bugzilla entry.
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
