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 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
   9
  10 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  11
  12 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  13
  14 LANG    Translator            Status
  15 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  16 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  17 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done
  18 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  19 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  20 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  21 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  22
  23 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  24
  25 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  26
  27 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
  28 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  29
  30 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
  31 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  32 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  33
  34 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  35   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  36
  37 * BUGS
  38
  39 ** python.el legal problem?
  40 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00459.html
  41
  42 ** rcyeske@gmail.com, April 22: Failure to build on OpenBSD macppc.
  43 OpenBSD compilation works on i386.
  44 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00932.html
  45
  46 ** Spurious redisplay bug not fixed.
  47 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00443.html
  48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00732.html
  49
  50 ** michael.ewe@arcor.de, Apr 24: 22.0.98  not starting on Solaris 10/I386
  51 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01113.html
  52
  53 ** Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com, May 2: table cell menu does not appear at the menubar
  54
  55 * DOCUMENTATION
  56
  57 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  58
  59 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  60 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  61 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  62 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  63
  64 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  65 names of the people who have checked it.
  66
  67 SECTION                  READERS
  68 ----------------------------------
  69 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  70 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  71 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  72 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  73 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  74 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
  75 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  76 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  77 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  78 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  79 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  80 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  81 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  82 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
  83 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
  84 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
  85 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  86 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
  87 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
  88 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
  89 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
  90
  91 \f
  92 Local variables:
  93 mode: outline
  94 coding: utf-8
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