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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 breaks if you change entries
  52 in the syntax table.
  53
  54 ** Michael Cadilhac's line-move-partial is slow.
  55
  56 ** iampure@gmail.com's Sep 15 bug report about View Changes In File.
  57
  58 * LICENSES
  59
  60 ** These need updating
  61
  62 ./info/emacs-5:6335:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  63 ./info/emacs-5:6670:GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
  64 ./info/mh-e-1:6472:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  65 ./info/mh-e-1:6807:GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
  66 ./info/calc-1:103:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  67 ./info/calc-1:435:GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
  68 ./info/elisp-9:1499:the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
  69 ./info/elisp-9:1835:GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License.
  70
  71 ** These need relicensing to the GPL.
  72
  73 ./src/gmalloc.c:13:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  74 ./src/gmalloc.c:20:Library General Public License for more details.
  75 ./src/gmalloc.c:332:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  76 ./src/gmalloc.c:339:Library General Public License for more details.
  77 ./src/gmalloc.c:935:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  78 ./src/gmalloc.c:942:Library General Public License for more details.
  79 ./src/gmalloc.c:1254:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  80 ./src/gmalloc.c:1261:Library General Public License for more details.
  81 ./src/gmalloc.c:1499:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  82 ./src/gmalloc.c:1506:Library General Public License for more details.
  83 ./src/gmalloc.c:1596:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  84 ./src/gmalloc.c:1603:Library General Public License for more details.
  85 ./src/gmalloc.c:1696:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  86 ./src/gmalloc.c:1703:Library General Public License for more details.
  87 ./src/gmalloc.c:1763:modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  88 ./src/gmalloc.c:1770:Library General Public License for more details.
  89 ./src/md5.c:8:   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  90 ./src/md5.c:15:   Library General Public License for more details.
  91 ./src/md5.h:8:   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
  92 ./src/md5.h:15:   Library General Public License for more details.
  93 ./src/strftime.c:10:   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License
  94 ./src/strftime.c:17:   Library General Public License for more details.
  95
  96
  97 * DOCUMENTATION
  98
  99 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 100
 101 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 102 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 103 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 104 in the respective language.
 105
 106 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 107 names of the people who have checked it.
 108
 109 SECTION                  READERS
 110 ----------------------------------
 111 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 112 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 113 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 114 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 115 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 116 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 117 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 118 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 119 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 120 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 121 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 122 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 123 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 124 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 125 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 126 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 127 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 128 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 129 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 130 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 131
 132 \f
 133 Local variables:
 134 mode: outline
 135 coding: utf-8
 136 end: