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
  10 ** Update AUTHORS.
  11 [Done 2006-10-03]
  12
  13 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  14
  15 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  16
  17 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  18
  19 LANG    Translator            Status
  20 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  21 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  22 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  23 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  24 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  25 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  26 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  27
  28 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  29
  30 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  31 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  32
  33 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  34 These don't need to be fixed to start pretest, but we call the
  35 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  36
  37 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
  38 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  39 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  40
  41 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  42   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  43
  44 ** make-network-process :nowait t doesn't work for non-local targets
  45    on Windows.  This has been "fixed" for Emacs 22 by defining
  46    BROKEN_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT in ms-w32.h.
  47
  48
  49 * BUGS
  50
  51 ** document gpg-agent.
  52
  53 ** Need papers from Rubini for his code in t-mouse.el
  54   Sent instructions.
  55
  56 ** lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, Dec 21:
  57   Saving when the coding system can't code all buffer characters
  58
  59 ** Bug in ESHELL that Wiegley is supposed to fix.
  60
  61 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Dec 23: Gnus weird behavior.
  62
  63 ** allout problem because pgg ignores its passphrases.
  64
  65 ** How should C-x C-v ask about saving?
  66
  67 ** Delete prematurely applied allout.el changes.
  68
  69 ** lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, Dec 16:
  70   compilation-previous-error fails if first error is at start of buffer
  71
  72 ** CC mode fixes to be installed.
  73
  74 ** W3 status with latest url package.
  75
  76 ** Fix up the notices in oldXMenu properly.
  77
  78 ** bruno@clisp.org's patches for location of Info file directory.
  79
  80 ** disumu@x3y2z1.net, Nov 22:
  81   URL not following some 302 redirects after recent changes
  82
  83 ** Give recommendations for redefining window manager keys
  84   to avoid interference with Emacs.
  85
  86 ** herberteuler@hotmail.com, Dec 26: Add log bug
  87
  88 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Dec 29: Scroll bar position bug
  89
  90 ** lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, Dec 29:
  91   How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode
  92 He says that customizing such a mode simply does not work.
  93
  94 ** b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net, Dec 29:
  95   GTK build crashes under X
  96
  97 ** dooglus@gmail.com, Dec 29: 4 week-old pretest bugs
  98   Two GTK version bugs.
  99
 100 ** pgg bugs reported by rms.
 101
 102
 103 * DOCUMENTATION
 104
 105 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 106
 107 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
 108 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
 109 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
 110 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
 111
 112 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 113 names of the people who have checked it.
 114
 115 SECTION                  READERS
 116 ----------------------------------
 117 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 118 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 119 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 120 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 121 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 122 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 123 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 124 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 125 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 126 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 127 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 128 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 129 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 130 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 131 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 132 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 133 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 134 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 135 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 136 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 137
 138 \f
 139 Local variables:
 140 mode: outline
 141 coding: utf-8
 142 end: