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 ** Update release dates of manuals.
   6
   7 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
   8 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
   9
  10 ** Update AUTHORS.
  11
  12 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  13
  14 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  15
  16 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  17
  18 LANG    Translator            Status
  19 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  20 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  21 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  22 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  23 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  24 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  25 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  26
  27 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  28
  29 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  30 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  31
  32 * BUGS
  33
  34 ** lennart.borgman July 27: Custom and mode-line-format default
  35    M-x customize-option RET mode-line-format RET
  36
  37 and then click the button "Erase Customization". This will set
  38 mode-line-format to "%-" which does not seem to be useful.
  39
  40
  41 ** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
  42 .emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
  43         (setq-default truncate-lines t)
  44         (custom-set-variables
  45          '(hscroll-margin 20)
  46          '(hscroll-step 1)
  47         )
  48
  49 ** David Kastrup's report on strange scrolling of large images.
  50
  51 ** Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@forcix.cx>'s June 18 bug report about
  52   fields and invisible overlays needs attention from a field expert.
  53
  54 ** Implement buffer-chars-modified-tick.
  55
  56 * DOCUMENTATION
  57
  58 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
  59
  60 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
  61 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
  62 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
  63 people who have checked it.
  64
  65 SECTION                  READERS
  66 ----------------------------------
  67 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  68 lispref/advice.texi      Joakim Verona     Chong Yidong
  69 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong      Kim F. Storm
  70 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  71 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  72 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona     Chong Yidong
  73 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  74 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  75 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  76 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
  77 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona     Lute Kamstra
  78 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong      Jason Rumney
  79 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
  80 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
  81 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  82 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  83 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  84 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  85 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  86 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  87 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  88 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
  89 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  90 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
  91 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  92 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  93 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  94 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong      Nick Roberts
  95 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  96 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong      Kim F. Storm
  97 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  98 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  99 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 100 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 101 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 102 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 103 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 104 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 105 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 106 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 107 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 108 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 109 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 110 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 111 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 112 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 113 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 114 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 115 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 116
 117 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 118
 119 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 120 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 121 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 122 in the respective language.
 123
 124 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 125 names of the people who have checked it.
 126
 127 SECTION                  READERS
 128 ----------------------------------
 129 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 130 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 131 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 132 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 133 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 134 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 135 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 136 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 137 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 138 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 139 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 140 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 141 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 142 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 143 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 144 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 145 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 146 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 147 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 148 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 149
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 152 mode: outline
 153 coding: utf-8
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