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 ** make-network-process :nowait t doesn't work for non-local targets
  54    on Windows.  This has been "fixed" for Emacs 22 by defining
  55    BROKEN_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT in ms-w32.h.
  56
  57
  58 * BUGS
  59
  60 ** Fix up copyright confusions.
  61   See end of admin/notes/copyright.
  62
  63 ** simon.marshall@misys.com, Jan 12:
  64   Font-lock decides function call is function declaration in C++
  65
  66 ** md5i@cs.cmu.edu, Feb 20: move-end-of-line in comint buffers
  67
  68 ** daniel@bigwalter.net, Feb 25: Echoing of keys and process I/O
  69
  70 * DOCUMENTATION
  71
  72 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  73
  74 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  75 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  76 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  77 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  78
  79 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  80 names of the people who have checked it.
  81
  82 SECTION                  READERS
  83 ----------------------------------
  84 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  85 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  86 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  87 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  88 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  89 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
  90 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  91 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  93 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  94 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  95 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 101 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 102 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 103 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 105
 106 \f
 107 Local variables:
 108 mode: outline
 109 coding: utf-8
 110 end: