code.delx.au - gnu-emacs/blob - 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 eshell.texi 'Known Problems' (does section need updating?)
  13 cc-mode.texi 'Performance Issues': "21.3 as of this writing"
  14
  15 ** Update AUTHORS.
  16
  17 ** Cleanup temporary +++/--- lines in etc/NEWS.
  18
  19 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  20 As of 2007/2/26, only ps files older than the associated tex files are:
  21   cs-dired-ref.ps sk-dired-ref.ps
  22
  23 May need update for Emacs-22:
  24 dired-ref.tex cs-dired-ref.tex fr-drdref.tex sk-dired-ref.tex
  25
  26 Fix overfull lines p3 fr-refcard.ps.
  27
  28
  29 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  30
  31 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  32
  33 LANG    Translator            Status
  34 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  35 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  36 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  37 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  38 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  39 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  40 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  41
  42 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  43
  44 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  45 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  46
  47 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  48 These don't need to be fixed to start pretest, but we call the
  49 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  50
  51 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
  52 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  53 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  54
  55 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  56   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  57
  58 ** make-network-process :nowait t doesn't work for non-local targets
  59    on Windows.  This has been "fixed" for Emacs 22 by defining
  60    BROKEN_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT in ms-w32.h.
  61
  62
  63 * BUGS
  64
  65 ** Fix up copyright confusions.
  66   See admin/notes/copyright.
  67
  68 ** simon.marshall@misys.com, Jan 12:
  69   Font-lock decides function call is function declaration in C++
  70
  71 ** Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent
  72
  73 ** md5i@cs.cmu.edu, Feb 20: move-end-of-line in comint buffers
  74
  75 ** dale@codefu.org, Feb 25: tramp and diff-mode results in Emacs crash
  76
  77 ** daniel@bigwalter.net, Feb 25: Echoing of keys and process I/O
  78
  79 * DOCUMENTATION
  80
  81 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  82
  83 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  84 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  85 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  86 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  87
  88 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  89 names of the people who have checked it.
  90
  91 SECTION                  READERS
  92 ----------------------------------
  93 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  94 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  95 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 101 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 102 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 103 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 105 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 106 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 107 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 108 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 109 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 110 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 111 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 112 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 113 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 114
 115 \f
 116 Local variables:
 117 mode: outline
 118 coding: utf-8
 119 end: