admin/FOR-RELEASE

   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * UPDATE COPYRIGHTS (Happy New Year :-)
   4   Done, I think. Please keep an eye out for any errors, eg copyrights
   5   not at the start of the file that are easy to miss, as in
   6   src/emacs.c.
   7
   8   See also the oustanding issues in admin/notes/copyright.
   9
  10 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
  11
  12 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
  13 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
  14
  15 ** Check for text in manuals that assumes current version is 21.
  16
  17 ** Update AUTHORS.
  18
  19 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  20
  21 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  22
  23 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  24
  25 LANG    Translator            Status
  26 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  27 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  28 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  29 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  30 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  31 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  32 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  33
  34 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  35
  36 Note: regardless of the above, the following files need to be
  37 regenerated to get updated copyright notices: sk-refcard.ps,
  38 pl-refcard.ps, cs-refcard.ps.
  39
  40 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  41 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  42
  43 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  44 These don't need to be fixed to start pretest, but we call the
  45 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  46
  47 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
  48 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  49 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  50
  51 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  52   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  53
  54 ** make-network-process :nowait t doesn't work for non-local targets
  55    on Windows.  This has been "fixed" for Emacs 22 by defining
  56    BROKEN_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT in ms-w32.h.
  57
  58
  59 * BUGS
  60
  61 ** W3 status with latest url package.
  62
  63 ** Fix up the notices in oldXMenu properly.
  64
  65 ** disumu@x3y2z1.net, Nov 22:
  66   URL not following some 302 redirects after recent changes
  67
  68 ** simon.marshall@misys.com, Jan 12:
  69   Font-lock decides function call is function declaration in C+ +
  70
  71 ** Install newsticker.el patch.
  72
  73 * DOCUMENTATION
  74
  75 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  76
  77 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  78 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  79 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  80 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  81
  82 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  83 names of the people who have checked it.
  84
  85 SECTION                  READERS
  86 ----------------------------------
  87 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  88 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  89 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  90 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  91 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  93 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  94 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  95 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 101 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 102 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 103 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 105 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 106 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 107
 108 \f
 109 Local variables:
 110 mode: outline
 111 coding: utf-8
 112 end: