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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 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
9
10 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
11
12 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
13
14 LANG Translator Status
15 cs Pavel Janík Can't work on it now.
16 de Sven Joachim Done
17 fr Eric Jacoboni Done
18 pl Włodek Bzyl Done
19 pt-br Rodrigo Real Done
20 ru Alex Ott Done
21 sk Miroslav Vaško No response
22
23 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
24
25 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
26
27 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
28 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
29
30 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
31 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
32 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
33
34 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
35 (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
36
37 * BUGS
38
39 ** python.el legal problem?
40 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00459.html
41
42 ** rcyeske@gmail.com, April 22: Failure to build on OpenBSD macppc.
43 OpenBSD compilation works on i386.
44
45 ** bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se, April 23: delete-overlay causes recentering
46 (This is now the same as the spurious scrolling bug.)
47
48 ** finish fixing locate.el
49
50 ** angeli@caeruleus.net, April 23: Excessive refontification when setting
51 jit-lock-context-unfontify-pos
52
53 * DOCUMENTATION
54
55 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
56
57 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
58 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
59 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying
60 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
61
62 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
63 names of the people who have checked it.
64
65 SECTION READERS
66 ----------------------------------
67 etc/TUTORIAL rms
68 etc/TUTORIAL.bg Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
69 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
70 etc/TUTORIAL.cs Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
71 etc/TUTORIAL.de Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
72 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
73 etc/TUTORIAL.es Marcelo Toledo
74 etc/TUTORIAL.fr ttn
75 etc/TUTORIAL.it ttn
76 etc/TUTORIAL.ja Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
77 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
78 etc/TUTORIAL.nl Lute Kamstra
79 etc/TUTORIAL.pl Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
80 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR Marcelo Toledo
81 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
82 etc/TUTORIAL.ru Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
83 etc/TUTORIAL.sk Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
84 etc/TUTORIAL.sl Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
85 etc/TUTORIAL.sv Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
86 etc/TUTORIAL.th Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
87 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
88
89 \f
90 Local variables:
91 mode: outline
92 coding: utf-8
93 end: