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 ** Update release dates of manuals.
   6
   7 ** Get rid of overfull and underfull boxes in manuals.
   8
   9 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
  10 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
  11
  12 ** Update AUTHORS.
  13
  14 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  15
  16 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  17
  18 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  19
  20 LANG    Translator            Status
  21 cs      Pavel Janík           No response
  22 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  23 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  24 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  25 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  26 ru      Alex Ott              Working
  27 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  28
  29 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  30
  31 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  32 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  33
  34 * BUGS
  35
  36 ** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
  37 .emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
  38         (setq-default truncate-lines t)
  39         (custom-set-variables
  40          '(hscroll-margin 20)
  41          '(hscroll-step 1)
  42         )
  43
  44
  45 * DOCUMENTATION
  46
  47 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
  48
  49 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
  50 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
  51 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
  52 people who have checked it.
  53
  54 SECTION                  READERS
  55 ----------------------------------
  56 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  57 lispref/advice.texi      Joakim Verona     Chong Yidong
  58 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong      Kim F. Storm
  59 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  60 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  61 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona     Chong Yidong
  62 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  63 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  64 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  65 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
  66 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona     Lute Kamstra
  67 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong      Jason Rumney
  68 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
  69 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
  70 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  71 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  72 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  73 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  74 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  75 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  76 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  77 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
  78 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  79 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
  80 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  81 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  82 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  83 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong      Nick Roberts
  84 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  85 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong      Kim F. Storm
  86 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  87 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  88 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
  89 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  90 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  91 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  92 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  93 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  94 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
  95 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  96 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  97 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  98 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  99 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 100 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 101 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 102 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 103 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 104 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 105
 106 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 107
 108 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 109 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 110 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 111 in the respective language.
 112
 113 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 114 names of the people who have checked it.
 115
 116 SECTION                  READERS
 117 ----------------------------------
 118 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 119 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 120 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 121 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 122 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 123 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 124 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 125 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 126 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 127 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 128 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 129 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 130 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 131 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 132 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 133 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 134 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 135 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 136 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 137 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 138
 139 \f
 140 Local variables:
 141 mode: outline
 142 coding: utf-8
 143 end: