Tasks needed before the next release. * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE ** Update release dates of manuals. ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals; make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. ** Update AUTHORS. ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc. ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them. Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib). LANG Translator Status cs Pavel Janík Can't work on it now. de Sven Joachim Done fr Eric Jacoboni Done (layout might be improved) pl Włodek Bzyl Done pt-br Rodrigo Real Done ru Alex Ott Done sk Miroslav Vaško No response Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08. ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons. * BUGS ** Romain Francoise , Aug 2: Abort at end of Fbyte_code because specpdl did not balance. ** bojohan's and johnsu01@wjsullivan.net's 18 July bug reports that "C-n doesn't work in Customize Option buffer in -nw with long value displayed". Yidong proposed a fix, but needs a field expert to check it. ** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following .emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow": (setq-default truncate-lines t) (custom-set-variables '(hscroll-margin 20) '(hscroll-step 1) ) ** David Kastrup's report on strange scrolling of large images. ** Jorgen Schaefer 's June 18 bug report about fields and invisible overlays needs attention from a field expert. ** Implement buffer-chars-modified-tick. * DOCUMENTATION ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual. Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness regarding recent changes by at least two people. After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the people who have checked it. SECTION READERS ---------------------------------- lispref/abbrevs.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/advice.texi Joakim Verona Chong Yidong lispref/anti.texi Chong Yidong Kim F. Storm lispref/backups.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/buffers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/calendar.texi Joakim Verona Chong Yidong lispref/commands.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/compile.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/control.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/customize.texi Chong Yidong "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/debugging.texi Joakim Verona Lute Kamstra lispref/display.texi Chong Yidong Jason Rumney lispref/edebug.texi Chong Yidong "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/elisp.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Lute Kamstra lispref/errors.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/eval.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/files.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/frames.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/functions.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/hash.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/help.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/hooks.texi Lute Kamstra Chong Yidong lispref/internals.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/intro.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Josh Varner lispref/keymaps.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/lists.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/loading.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/locals.texi Chong Yidong Nick Roberts lispref/macros.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/maps.texi Chong Yidong Kim F. Storm lispref/markers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/minibuf.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/modes.texi Chong Yidong lispref/nonascii.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/numbers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/objects.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/os.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/positions.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/processes.texi Chong Yidong ttn lispref/searching.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/sequences.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/streams.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/strings.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/symbols.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/syntax.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/text.texi Chong Yidong lispref/tips.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/variables.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/windows.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong ** Check the Emacs Tutorial. The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise in the respective language. After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the people who have checked it. SECTION READERS ---------------------------------- etc/TUTORIAL rms etc/TUTORIAL.bg Ognyan Kulev etc/TUTORIAL.cn etc/TUTORIAL.cs Pavel Janík etc/TUTORIAL.de Werner LEMBERG etc/TUTORIAL.es Marcelo Toledo etc/TUTORIAL.fr ttn etc/TUTORIAL.it ttn etc/TUTORIAL.ja Kenichi Handa etc/TUTORIAL.ko etc/TUTORIAL.nl Lute Kamstra etc/TUTORIAL.pl Slawomir Nowaczyk etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR Marcelo Toledo etc/TUTORIAL.ro etc/TUTORIAL.ru Alex Ott etc/TUTORIAL.sk Pavel Janík etc/TUTORIAL.sl Primoz PETERLIN etc/TUTORIAL.sv Mats Lidell etc/TUTORIAL.th Virach Sornlertlamvanich etc/TUTORIAL.zh Local variables: mode: outline coding: utf-8 end: