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   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
   4
   5 ** Update release dates of manuals.
   6
   7 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
   8 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
   9
  10 ** Update AUTHORS.
  11
  12 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  13
  14 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  15
  16 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  17
  18 LANG    Translator            Status
  19 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  20 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  21 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  22 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  23 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  24 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  25 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  26
  27 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  28
  29 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  30 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  31
  32 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  33 These don't need to be fixed to start pretest, but we call the
  34 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  35
  36 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
  37 Windows only bug.
  38
  39 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  40   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  41
  42 * BUGS
  43
  44 ** Field handling in C-n.
  45
  46 ** C-g fails to interrupt accept-process-output in Gnus.
  47   (Is that fixed?)
  48
  49 ** david.hansen@physik.fu-berlin.de: WoMan Bug, Sep 13.
  50
  51 ** regex char class matching needs a call to char-syntax.
  52
  53 ** regex char class matching breaks if you change entries
  54 in the syntax table.
  55
  56 ** Michael Cadilhac's line-move-partial is slow.
  57
  58 ** Handa's Sep 6 compilation font lock bug report.
  59
  60 * LICENSES
  61
  62 ** These need updating
  63
  64 ./etc/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  65 ./info/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  66 ./info/emacs-5:6335:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  67 ./info/emacs-5:6670:GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
  68 ./info/mh-e-1:6472:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  69 ./info/mh-e-1:6807:GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
  70 ./info/calc-1:103:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  71 ./info/calc-1:435:GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
  72 ./info/elisp-9:1499:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  73 ./info/elisp-9:1835:GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License.
  74 ./lisp/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  75 ./lispref/gpl.texi:26:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  76 ./man/calc.texi:206:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  77 ./man/emacs.texi:1199:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  78 ./man/mh-e.texi:9291:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  79 ./src/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  80 ./COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  81 ./leim/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  82 ./lib-src/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  83 ./lwlib/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  84 ./mac/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  85 ./msdos/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  86 ./nt/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  87
  88 ** These need relicensing to the GPL.
  89
  90 ./src/gmalloc.c:13:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  91 ./src/gmalloc.c:20:Library General Public License for more details.
  92 ./src/gmalloc.c:332:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  93 ./src/gmalloc.c:339:Library General Public License for more details.
  94 ./src/gmalloc.c:935:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  95 ./src/gmalloc.c:942:Library General Public License for more details.
  96 ./src/gmalloc.c:1254:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  97 ./src/gmalloc.c:1261:Library General Public License for more details.
  98 ./src/gmalloc.c:1499:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  99 ./src/gmalloc.c:1506:Library General Public License for more details.
 100 ./src/gmalloc.c:1596:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
 101 ./src/gmalloc.c:1603:Library General Public License for more details.
 102 ./src/gmalloc.c:1696:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
 103 ./src/gmalloc.c:1703:Library General Public License for more details.
 104 ./src/gmalloc.c:1763:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
 105 ./src/gmalloc.c:1770:Library General Public License for more details.
 106 ./src/md5.c:8:   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
 107 ./src/md5.c:15:   Library General Public License for more details.
 108 ./src/md5.h:8:   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
 109 ./src/md5.h:15:   Library General Public License for more details.
 110 ./src/strftime.c:10:   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License
 111 ./src/strftime.c:17:   Library General Public License for more details.
 112
 113
 114 * DOCUMENTATION
 115
 116 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 117
 118 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 119 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 120 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 121 in the respective language.
 122
 123 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 124 names of the people who have checked it.
 125
 126 SECTION                  READERS
 127 ----------------------------------
 128 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 129 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 130 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 131 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 132 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 133 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 134 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 135 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 136 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 137 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 138 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 139 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 140 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 141 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 142 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 143 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 144 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 145 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 146 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 147 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 148
 149 \f
 150 Local variables:
 151 mode: outline
 152 coding: utf-8
 153 end: