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 WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT
  38
  39 ** undefined reference getopt_long
  40 Report by Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> on bug-gnu-emacs
  41 from 2007-08-27.  Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as
  42 of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this.
  43 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html
  44
  45 ** emacs-22.1 with GTK problems (with patches)
  46 Only outstanding issue seems to be whether Solaris 2.6 GTK can be
  47 supported in the absence of recursive mutexes, via a change to
  48 alloc.c, or whether configure should abort.
  49 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00055.html
  50
  51 * BUGS
  52
  53 ** schierlm@gmx.de, 25 Dec: Crash when buffer is edited while save-buffer asks for coding system
  54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-12/msg00134.html
  55
  56 ** bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se, 19 Nov: appointment display during isearch replaces buffer contents with history element.
  57 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-01/msg00005.html
  58 (patch)
  59
  60 ** eric@openbsd.org, 24 Nov: c-mode syntactic analysis regression in emacs-22.1
  61 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00589.html
  62
  63 ** pot@gnu.org, 17 Dec: strange From line maker rmail-reply loop
  64 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00460.html
  65 reproducible?
  66
  67 ** nico@ngolde.de, 7 Jan: some code issues
  68 some unsafe code in pop.c
  69 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00654.html
  70
  71 * DOCUMENTATION
  72
  73 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  74
  75 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  76 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  77 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  78 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  79
  80 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  81 names of the people who have checked it.
  82
  83 SECTION                  READERS
  84 ----------------------------------
  85 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  86 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  87 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  88 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  89 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  90 etc/TUTORIAL.eo          ttn
  91 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  93 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  94 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  95 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.ro          ttn
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 101 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 102 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 103 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 105 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 106
 107 \f
 108 Local variables:
 109 mode: outline
 110 coding: utf-8
 111 end: