code.delx.au - gnu-emacs/blob - admin/FOR-RELEASE

   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
   4
   5 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
   6 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
   7
   8 ** Check for text in manuals that assumes current version is 21.
   9 eshell.texi 'Known Problems' (does section need updating?)
  10 cc-mode.texi 'Performance Issues': "21.3 as of this writing"
  11
  12 ** Cleanup temporary +++/--- lines in etc/NEWS.
  13
  14 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  15 As of 2007/2/26, only ps files older than the associated tex files are:
  16   cs-dired-ref.ps sk-dired-ref.ps
  17
  18 May need update for Emacs-22:
  19 dired-ref.tex cs-dired-ref.tex fr-drdref.tex sk-dired-ref.tex
  20
  21 Fix overfull lines p3 fr-refcard.ps.
  22
  23
  24 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  25
  26 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  27
  28 LANG    Translator            Status
  29 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  30 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  31 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  32 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  33 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  34 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  35 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  36
  37 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  38
  39 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  40 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  41
  42 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  43 These don't need to be fixed to start pretest, but we call the
  44 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  45
  46 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
  47 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  48 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  49
  50 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  51   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  52
  53 ** lennart.borgman@gmail.com, Feb 22: C-h k does not catch text properies keymaps
  54
  55 * BUGS
  56
  57 ** Fix up copyright confusions.
  58   See end of admin/notes/copyright.
  59
  60 ** md5i@cs.cmu.edu, Feb 20: move-end-of-line in comint buffers
  61
  62 ** bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se, Feb 23: partial-completion
  63
  64 ** andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de, Feb 19: auto-insert help-buffer
  65
  66 ** david.hansen@physik.fu-berlin.de, Mar 6: WoMan Error with the CVS Manual Page
  67
  68 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Mar 6: Mode-line face bug
  69   The bug is that, for frames other than the first,
  70   the X resources override customizations.
  71
  72 ** david.hansen@gmx.net, Mar 7: shell.el patch to install
  73
  74 ** david.reitter@gmail.com, Mar 8: double-clicking on closing paren - wrong region marked
  75
  76 * DOCUMENTATION
  77
  78 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  79
  80 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  81 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  82 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  83 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  84
  85 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  86 names of the people who have checked it.
  87
  88 SECTION                  READERS
  89 ----------------------------------
  90 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  91 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  93 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  94 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  95 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 101 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 102 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 103 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 105 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 106 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 107 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 108 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 109 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 110 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 111
 112 \f
 113 Local variables:
 114 mode: outline
 115 coding: utf-8
 116 end: