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
  54 * BUGS
  55
  56 ** Fix up copyright confusions.
  57   See end of admin/notes/copyright.
  58
  59 ** simon.marshall@misys.com, Jan 12:
  60   Font-lock decides function call is function declaration in C++
  61
  62 ** md5i@cs.cmu.edu, Feb 20: move-end-of-line in comint buffers
  63
  64 ** rudalics@gmx.at, Feb 27: undo-information kept for *occur*
  65
  66 ** Failure to build on Solaris.  Did reverting Jan's change
  67 bring back the old bug?
  68
  69 ** yamaoka@jpl.org, Feb 21: custom bug
  70
  71 ** bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se, Feb 22: change to try-completion behavior
  72
  73 ** lennart.borgman@gmail.com, Feb 22: C-h k does not catch text properies keymaps
  74
  75 ** andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de, Feb 19: auto-insert help-buffer
  76
  77 ** david.hansen@physik.fu-berlin.de, Mar 5: isearch and Input Methods
  78
  79 ** alinsoar@voila.fr, Mar 5: EVAL and partial-completion-mode
  80
  81 ** alinsoar@voila.fr, Mar 5: EVAL and mouse selection in *Completions*
  82
  83 * DOCUMENTATION
  84
  85 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  86
  87 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  88 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  89 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  90 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  91
  92 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  93 names of the people who have checked it.
  94
  95 SECTION                  READERS
  96 ----------------------------------
  97 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 101 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 102 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
 103 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 105 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 106 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 107 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 108 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 109 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 110 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 111 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 112 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 113 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 114 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 115 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 116 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 117 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 118
 119 \f
 120 Local variables:
 121 mode: outline
 122 coding: utf-8
 123 end: