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 * FIXES FOR EMACS 22.2
  40
  41 Here we list small fixes that arrived too late for Emacs 22.1, but
  42 that should be installed on the release branch after 22.1 is released.
  43
  44 ** Changes to six pbm icons in etc/images.
  45 Sync change from trunk 2007-05-19.
  46
  47 ** viper and tramp should not load cl at run time.
  48
  49 ** yamaoka@jpl.org's patch for mail-extract-address-components problem.
  50
  51 * DOCUMENTATION
  52
  53 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  54
  55 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  56 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  57 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  58 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  59
  60 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  61 names of the people who have checked it.
  62
  63 SECTION                  READERS
  64 ----------------------------------
  65 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  66 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  67 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  68 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  69 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  70 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
  71 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  72 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  73 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  74 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  75 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  76 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  77 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  78 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
  79 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
  80 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
  81 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  82 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
  83 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
  84 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
  85 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
  86
  87 \f
  88 Local variables:
  89 mode: outline
  90 coding: utf-8
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