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   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 ** Cleanup temporary +++/--- lines in etc/NEWS.
   9
  10 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  11
  12 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  13
  14 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  15
  16 LANG    Translator            Status
  17 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  18 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  19 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done
  20 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  21 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  22 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  23 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  24
  25 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  26
  27 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  28 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  29
  30 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  31
  32 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
  33 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  34
  35 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
  36 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  37 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  38
  39 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  40   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  41
  42 * BUGS
  43
  44 ** spurious scrolling bug
  45 RMS has seen this too, happening during idle time, but cannot reproduce it.
  46
  47 ** crash in gc_sweep
  48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00082.html
  49  Reported by Kim Storm, who says "I've tried many ways / many times to
  50  reproduce the crash, but I cannot... messing around with this in
  51  various ways does not crash Emacs no matter how much I try."
  52
  53 ** ryanmcgeary@hotmail.com, Apr 9: x-display-pixel-width
  54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00400.html
  55 Not a bug, but doc must be updated.
  56
  57 ** Parsing URL attributes - url-mailto, url-imap, url-ldap broken?
  58 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00455.html
  59
  60 ** lennart.borgman@gmail.com, Apr 11: before-string in overlay
  61 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00153.html
  62
  63 ** footnote.el doesn't really let people customize footnote-style.
  64 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00406.html
  65
  66 ** BibTeX-mode: bibtex-user-optional-fields: INIT without {}
  67 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00255.html
  68
  69 ** cyd@stupidchicken.com, Apr 12: display margin errors on a tty
  70
  71 * DOCUMENTATION
  72
  73 ** cs-muelleimer-rubbish.bin@arcor.de, Apr 14:
  74  Org-mode and calc manual problems.
  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: