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 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
   6 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
   7
   8 ** Check for text in manuals that assumes current version is 21.
   9
  10 ** Update AUTHORS.
  11 [Done 2006-10-03]
  12
  13 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  14
  15 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  16
  17 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  18
  19 LANG    Translator            Status
  20 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  21 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  22 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  23 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  24 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  25 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  26 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  27
  28 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  29
  30 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  31 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  32
  33 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  34 These don't need to be fixed to start pretest, but we call the
  35 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  36
  37 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
  38 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  39 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  40
  41 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  42   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  43
  44 * BUGS
  45
  46 ** triska@gmx.at, Nov 2: EMACS environment variable.
  47
  48 ** offby1@blarg.net, Nov 5: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time
  49
  50 ** CC mode defun-finding issues.
  51
  52 ** tim.vanholder@gmail.com, Nov 7: segfault
  53
  54 ** arit93@yahoo.com, Nov 7: proposed fix for vc-svn.el and "the underscore hack"
  55 Is it correct?
  56
  57 ** jmarant@free.fr, Nov 8: Problem with non-bmp unicode
  58
  59 * DOCUMENTATION
  60
  61 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  62
  63 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  64 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  65 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  66 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  67
  68 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  69 names of the people who have checked it.
  70
  71 SECTION                  READERS
  72 ----------------------------------
  73 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  74 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  75 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  76 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  77 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  78 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  79 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  80 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  81 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  82 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  83 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  84 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  85 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
  86 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
  87 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
  88 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  89 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
  90 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
  91 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
  93
  94 \f
  95 Local variables:
  96 mode: outline
  97 coding: utf-8
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