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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 ** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/.
   9
  10 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  11
  12 Emacs 22 translators:
  13
  14 LANG    Translator            Status
  15 cs      Pavel Janík
  16 de      Sven Joachim
  17 fr      Eric Jacoboni
  18 pl      Włodek Bzyl
  19 pt-br   Rodrigo Real
  20 ru      Alex Ott
  21 sk      Miroslav Vaško
  22
  23 ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS.
  24
  25 ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together.
  26
  27 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS
  28
  29 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
  30 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  31
  32 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
  33 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  34 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  35
  36 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  37   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  38
  39 * BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT
  40
  41 ** raman@users.sf.net, sep 7: Emacs 23.0.50: Segfaults in alloc.c (batch process)
  42 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00690.html
  43
  44 ** undefined reference getopt_long
  45 Report by Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> on bug-gnu-emacs
  46 from 2007-08-27.  Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as
  47 of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this.
  48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html
  49
  50 ** emacs-22.1 with GTK problems (with patches)
  51 Only outstanding issue seems to be whether Solaris 2.6 GTK can be
  52 supported in the absence of recursive mutexes, via a change to
  53 alloc.c, or whether configure should abort.
  54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00055.html
  55
  56 * BUGS
  57
  58 ** Document the changes introduced by multi-tty
  59 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html
  60 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html
  61
  62 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code?  If so, can we get rid of that?
  63 It is a dangerous design.
  64 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
  65
  66 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
  67 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
  68
  69 ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode.
  70 "can't turn off font-lock"
  71 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00548.html
  72
  73 ** mah@everybody.org, Sep 18: erc causes emacs to hang with multi-tty
  74 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01765.html
  75
  76 ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty
  77 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00094.html
  78 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01816.html
  79
  80 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop.
  81 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01720.html
  82
  83 ** herring@lanl.gov: find-func: can no longer find adviced subrs
  84 This ought to work.
  85
  86 ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries
  87 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00209.html
  88
  89 ** menu indications of key bindings for remapped commands
  90 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html
  91
  92 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake.  Those features should not
  93 be part of Gnus.  They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
  94
  95 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 28 Oct: window-system in face definition
  96
  97 ** Gnus cannot send mail by default
  98 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg02082.html
  99
 100 ** Gnus archive groups are not shown at all if they are not at the default level.
 101 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65622
 102
 103 ** Extra question asked when doing a reply in Gnus
 104 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65627
 105
 106 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
 107
 108 ** Stephen.Berman@gmx.net: minibuffer and current-local-map
 109
 110 ** timh@insightful.com, 9 Nov: X-coding-system incompatibility, and workaround
 111
 112 ** Get rid of old-style backquotes in cc-vars.el.
 113 ttn has a patch:
 114 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg02052.html
 115
 116 * DOCUMENTATION
 117
 118 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 119
 120 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
 121 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
 122 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
 123 likewise in the respective language.
 124
 125 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 126 names of the people who have checked it.
 127
 128 SECTION                  READERS
 129 ----------------------------------
 130 etc/TUTORIAL
 131 etc/TUTORIAL.bg
 132 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 133 etc/TUTORIAL.cs
 134 etc/TUTORIAL.de
 135 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
 136 etc/TUTORIAL.es
 137 etc/TUTORIAL.fr
 138 etc/TUTORIAL.it
 139 etc/TUTORIAL.ja
 140 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 141 etc/TUTORIAL.nl
 142 etc/TUTORIAL.pl
 143 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 144 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 145 etc/TUTORIAL.ru
 146 etc/TUTORIAL.sk
 147 etc/TUTORIAL.sl
 148 etc/TUTORIAL.sv
 149 etc/TUTORIAL.th
 150 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 151
 152 \f
 153 Local variables:
 154 mode: outline
 155 coding: utf-8
 156 end: