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 ** make-network-process :nowait t doesn't work for non-local targets
  45    on Windows.  This has been "fixed" for Emacs 22 by defining
  46    BROKEN_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT in ms-w32.h.
  47
  48
  49 * BUGS
  50
  51 ** document gpg-agent.
  52
  53 ** Need papers from Rubini for his code in t-mouse.el
  54   Sent instructions.
  55
  56 ** lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, Dec 21:
  57   Saving when the coding system can't code all buffer characters
  58
  59 ** Report that datagrams don't work on Windows.
  60
  61 ** Bug in ESHELL that Wiegley is supposed to fix.
  62
  63 ** Make woman detect use of the doc macros and give a clear error message.
  64
  65 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Dec 23: Gnus weird behavior.
  66
  67 * DOCUMENTATION
  68
  69 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  70
  71 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  72 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  73 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  74 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  75
  76 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  77 names of the people who have checked it.
  78
  79 SECTION                  READERS
  80 ----------------------------------
  81 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  82 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  83 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  84 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  85 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  86 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  87 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  88 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  89 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  90 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  91 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  93 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
  94 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
  95 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 101
 102 \f
 103 Local variables:
 104 mode: outline
 105 coding: utf-8
 106 end: