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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 postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
   9
  10 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  11
  12 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  13
  14 LANG    Translator            Status
  15 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  16 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  17 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done
  18 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  19 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  20 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  21 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  22
  23 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  24
  25 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  26
  27 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
  28 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  29
  30 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
  31 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  32 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  33
  34 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  35   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  36
  37 ** set-frame-size for frame without minibuffer loses mode line
  38 Probably a Windows only bug.  Reported by Drew Adams on bug-gnu-emacs on
  39 2007-08-07.  It seems that the bug manifests itself only if resizing the
  40 frame makes the menu bar wrap before.  On 2007-08-16 Glenn Morris
  41 reported on emacs-devel that he was not able to reproduce the bug on a
  42 GNU/Linux system.
  43
  44 * BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT
  45
  46 ** undefined reference getopt_long
  47 Report by Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> on bug-gnu-emacs
  48 from 2007-08-27.  Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as
  49 of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this.
  50 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html
  51
  52 ** TAGS buffer generates spurious undo warnings
  53 Waiting for recipe to produce these warnings.
  54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00070.html
  55
  56 ** emacs-22.1 with GTK problems (with patches)
  57 Only outstanding issue seems to be whether Solaris 2.6 GTK can be
  58 supported in the absence of recursive mutexes, via a change to
  59 alloc.c, or whether configure should abort.
  60 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00055.html
  61
  62 * BUGS
  63
  64 ** ams@gnu.org, 9 July: eshell and external commands
  65 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00385.html
  66
  67 ** maximize resizes to large size, but doesn't really maximize
  68 Report by Marijn Schouten <hkBst@gentoo.org> on bug-gnu-emacs from
  69 2007-08-26.
  70 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01362.html
  71 Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> has compiled a list of KDE
  72 builds where the behavior can be observed, compare:
  73 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00446.html
  74
  75 ** mouse-autoselect-window with click-to-focus window managers
  76 Report by Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> on emacs-devel from
  77 2007-09-05.
  78 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00298.html
  79
  80 ** GNU NT-Emacs crashes with longlines-mode and outline-mode
  81 Reported by Rainer Thiel <r.thiel@uni-jena.de> on emacs-pretest-bug
  82 from 2007-09-22.
  83 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01996.html
  84 Jason Rumney has a recipe for reproducing this on GNU/Linux:
  85 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02267.html
  86 Minimum cause: "It occurs when the character before the display
  87 property is replaced with an ellipsis"
  88 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00046.html
  89
  90 * FIXES FOR EMACS 22.3
  91
  92 Here we list any small fixes that arrived too late for Emacs 22.2, but
  93 that should be installed on the release branch after 22.2 is released.
  94
  95 * DOCUMENTATION
  96
  97 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  98
  99 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
 100 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
 101 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
 102 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
 103
 104 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 105 names of the people who have checked it.
 106
 107 SECTION                  READERS
 108 ----------------------------------
 109 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 110 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 111 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 112 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 113 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 114 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
 115 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 116 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 117 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 118 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 119 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 120 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 121 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 122 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 123 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 124 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 125 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 126 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 127 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 128 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 129 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 130
 131 \f
 132 Local variables:
 133 mode: outline
 134 coding: utf-8
 135 end: