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   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * COPYRIGHTS
   4   See the outstanding issues at the end of admin/notes/copyright.
   5
   6 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
   7
   8 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
   9 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
  10
  11 ** Check for text in manuals that assumes current version is 21.
  12
  13 ** Update AUTHORS.
  14
  15 ** Cleanup temporary +++/--- lines in etc/NEWS.
  16
  17 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  18
  19 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  20
  21 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  22
  23 LANG    Translator            Status
  24 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  25 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  26 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  27 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  28 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  29 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  30 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  31
  32 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  33
  34 Note: regardless of the above, the following files need to be
  35 regenerated to get updated copyright notices: sk-refcard.ps,
  36 pl-refcard.ps, cs-refcard.ps.
  37
  38 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  39 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  40
  41 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  42 These don't need to be fixed to start pretest, but we call the
  43 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  44
  45 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
  46 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  47 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  48
  49 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  50   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  51
  52 ** make-network-process :nowait t doesn't work for non-local targets
  53    on Windows.  This has been "fixed" for Emacs 22 by defining
  54    BROKEN_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT in ms-w32.h.
  55
  56
  57 * BUGS
  58
  59 ** W3 status with latest url package.
  60
  61 ** Fix up copyright confusions.
  62   See admin/notes/copyright.
  63
  64 ** simon.marshall@misys.com, Jan 12:
  65   Font-lock decides function call is function declaration in C+ +
  66
  67 ** Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent
  68
  69 ** alinsoar@voila.fr, Feb 18: TAB in find-file with PARTIAL-COMPLETION-MODE on
  70 He suggested a patch; is it correct?
  71
  72
  73
  74 * DOCUMENTATION
  75
  76 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  77
  78 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  79 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  80 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  81 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  82
  83 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  84 names of the people who have checked it.
  85
  86 SECTION                  READERS
  87 ----------------------------------
  88 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  89 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  90 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  91 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  93 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
  94 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  95 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 101 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 102 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 103 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 105 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 106 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 107 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 108 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 109
 110 \f
 111 Local variables:
 112 mode: outline
 113 coding: utf-8
 114 end: