]> code.delx.au - gnu-emacs/blob - admin/FOR-RELEASE
*** empty log message ***
[gnu-emacs] / admin / FOR-RELEASE
1 Tasks needed before the next release.
2
3 * COPYRIGHTS
4 See the outstanding issues at the end of admin/notes/copyright.
5
6 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
7
8 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
9 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
10
11 ** Check for text in manuals that assumes current version is 21.
12
13 ** Update AUTHORS.
14
15 ** Cleanup temporary +++/--- lines in etc/NEWS.
16
17 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
18
19 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
20
21 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
22
23 LANG Translator Status
24 cs Pavel Janík Can't work on it now.
25 de Sven Joachim Done
26 fr Eric Jacoboni Done (layout might be improved)
27 pl Włodek Bzyl Done
28 pt-br Rodrigo Real Done
29 ru Alex Ott Done
30 sk Miroslav Vaško No response
31
32 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
33
34 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
35 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
36
37 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
38 These don't need to be fixed to start pretest, but we call the
39 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
40
41 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
42 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
43 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
44
45 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
46 (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
47
48 ** make-network-process :nowait t doesn't work for non-local targets
49 on Windows. This has been "fixed" for Emacs 22 by defining
50 BROKEN_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT in ms-w32.h.
51
52
53 * BUGS
54
55 ** Fix up copyright confusions.
56 See admin/notes/copyright.
57
58 ** simon.marshall@misys.com, Jan 12:
59 Font-lock decides function call is function declaration in C+ +
60
61 ** Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent
62
63 ** md5i@cs.cmu.edu, Feb 20: move-end-of-line in comint buffers
64
65 ** dooglus@gmail.com, Feb 14: PGG: can't encrypt only for myself
66 Install his patch.
67
68 * DOCUMENTATION
69
70 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
71
72 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
73 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
74 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying
75 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
76
77 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
78 names of the people who have checked it.
79
80 SECTION READERS
81 ----------------------------------
82 etc/TUTORIAL rms
83 etc/TUTORIAL.bg Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
84 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
85 etc/TUTORIAL.cs Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
86 etc/TUTORIAL.de Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
87 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
88 etc/TUTORIAL.es Marcelo Toledo
89 etc/TUTORIAL.fr ttn
90 etc/TUTORIAL.it ttn
91 etc/TUTORIAL.ja Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
92 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
93 etc/TUTORIAL.nl Lute Kamstra
94 etc/TUTORIAL.pl Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
95 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR Marcelo Toledo
96 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
97 etc/TUTORIAL.ru Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
98 etc/TUTORIAL.sk Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
99 etc/TUTORIAL.sl Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
100 etc/TUTORIAL.sv Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
101 etc/TUTORIAL.th Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
102 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
103
104 \f
105 Local variables:
106 mode: outline
107 coding: utf-8
108 end: