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 * DOCUMENTATION
  78
  79 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  80
  81 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  82 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  83 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  84 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  85
  86 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  87 names of the people who have checked it.
  88
  89 SECTION                  READERS
  90 ----------------------------------
  91 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  93 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  94 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  95 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 101 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 102 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 103 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 105 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 106 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 107 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 108 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 109 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 110 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 111 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 112
 113 \f
 114 Local variables:
 115 mode: outline
 116 coding: utf-8
 117 end: