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 ** hukeli@gmail.com and pumcma@yahoo.com.cn Chinese input method problem.
  47
  48 ** Martin Rudalics Sep 28: widget-move-and-invoke scrolls spuriously.
  49
  50 ** Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE, Sep 21: An iso-8859-6 cannot be saved
  51
  52 ** XIM hotkey doesn't work in Emacs.
  53
  54 * DOCUMENTATION
  55
  56 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  57
  58 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
  59 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
  60 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
  61 in the respective language.
  62
  63 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  64 names of the people who have checked it.
  65
  66 SECTION                  READERS
  67 ----------------------------------
  68 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  69 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  70 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  71 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  72 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  73 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  74 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  75 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  76 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  77 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  78 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  79 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  80 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
  81 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
  82 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
  83 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  84 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
  85 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
  86 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
  87 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
  88
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  92 coding: utf-8
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