code.delx.au - gnu-emacs/blob - admin/FOR-RELEASE

   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 ** kitty@dre.vanderbilt.edu Sep 20 says make-frame ignores left and top.
  43
  44 * BUGS
  45
  46 ** Juri's Sep 26 cperl-mode fix.
  47
  48 ** chenggao@gmail.com  Gnus registry bug.
  49
  50 ** hukeli@gmail.com and pumcma@yahoo.com.cn Chinese input method problem.
  51
  52 ** C-p works properly with fields within the line, but C-n does not.
  53 (ken.manheimer@gmail.com, Sep 24.)
  54
  55 ** Text copied between font-lock buffers doesn't refontify
  56 because of properties that are preserved.  May be fixed now?
  57
  58 ** Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE, Sep 21: An iso-8859-6 cannot be saved
  59
  60 ** Should end-of-line get stuck at end of a field?
  61
  62 ** XIM hotkey doesn't work in Emacs.
  63
  64 * DOCUMENTATION
  65
  66 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  67
  68 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
  69 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
  70 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
  71 in the respective language.
  72
  73 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  74 names of the people who have checked it.
  75
  76 SECTION                  READERS
  77 ----------------------------------
  78 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  79 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  80 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  81 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  82 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  83 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  84 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  85 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  86 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  87 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  88 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  89 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  90 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
  91 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
  93 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  94 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
  95 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
  98
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 100 Local variables:
 101 mode: outline
 102 coding: utf-8
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