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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 * LICENSES
  59
  60 ** These need updating
  61
  62 ./etc/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  63 ./info/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  64 ./info/emacs-5:6335:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  65 ./info/emacs-5:6670:GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
  66 ./info/mh-e-1:6472:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  67 ./info/mh-e-1:6807:GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
  68 ./info/calc-1:103:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  69 ./info/calc-1:435:GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
  70 ./info/elisp-9:1499:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  71 ./info/elisp-9:1835:GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License.
  72 ./lisp/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  73 ./lispref/gpl.texi:26:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  74 ./man/calc.texi:206:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  75 ./man/emacs.texi:1199:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  76 ./man/mh-e.texi:9291:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  77 ./src/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  78 ./COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  79 ./leim/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  80 ./lib-src/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  81 ./lwlib/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  82 ./mac/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  83 ./msdos/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  84 ./nt/COPYING:18:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  85
  86 ** These need relicensing to the GPL.
  87
  88 ./src/gmalloc.c:13:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  89 ./src/gmalloc.c:20:Library General Public License for more details.
  90 ./src/gmalloc.c:332:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  91 ./src/gmalloc.c:339:Library General Public License for more details.
  92 ./src/gmalloc.c:935:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  93 ./src/gmalloc.c:942:Library General Public License for more details.
  94 ./src/gmalloc.c:1254:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  95 ./src/gmalloc.c:1261:Library General Public License for more details.
  96 ./src/gmalloc.c:1499:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  97 ./src/gmalloc.c:1506:Library General Public License for more details.
  98 ./src/gmalloc.c:1596:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  99 ./src/gmalloc.c:1603:Library General Public License for more details.
 100 ./src/gmalloc.c:1696:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
 101 ./src/gmalloc.c:1703:Library General Public License for more details.
 102 ./src/gmalloc.c:1763:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
 103 ./src/gmalloc.c:1770:Library General Public License for more details.
 104 ./src/md5.c:8:   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
 105 ./src/md5.c:15:   Library General Public License for more details.
 106 ./src/md5.h:8:   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
 107 ./src/md5.h:15:   Library General Public License for more details.
 108 ./src/strftime.c:10:   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License
 109 ./src/strftime.c:17:   Library General Public License for more details.
 110
 111
 112 * DOCUMENTATION
 113
 114 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 115
 116 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 117 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 118 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 119 in the respective language.
 120
 121 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 122 names of the people who have checked it.
 123
 124 SECTION                  READERS
 125 ----------------------------------
 126 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 127 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 128 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 129 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 130 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 131 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 132 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 133 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 134 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 135 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 136 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 137 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 138 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 139 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 140 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 141 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 142 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 143 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 144 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 145 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 146
 147 \f
 148 Local variables:
 149 mode: outline
 150 coding: utf-8
 151 end: