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 ** Cleanup temporary +++/--- lines in etc/NEWS.
  11
  12 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  13 As of 2007/2/26, only ps files older than the associated tex files are:
  14   cs-dired-ref.ps sk-dired-ref.ps
  15
  16 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  17
  18 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  19
  20 LANG    Translator            Status
  21 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  22 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  23 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  24 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  25 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  26 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  27 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  28
  29 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  30
  31 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  32 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  33
  34 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  35
  36 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
  37 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  38
  39 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
  40 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  41 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  42
  43 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  44   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  45
  46 * BUGS
  47
  48 ** Kevin Rodgers missing assignment
  49
  50 ** flyspell and check-comments
  51
  52 ** lennart.borgman@gmail.com, Feb 22: C-h k does not catch text properies keymaps
  53    Update: Problem is only seen when viper-mode is enabled.
  54
  55 * DOCUMENTATION
  56
  57 ** Fix overfull lines p3 fr-refcard.ps
  58
  59 ** May need update for Emacs-22:
  60 dired-ref.tex cs-dired-ref.tex fr-drdref.tex sk-dired-ref.tex
  61
  62 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  63
  64 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  65 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  66 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  67 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  68
  69 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  70 names of the people who have checked it.
  71
  72 SECTION                  READERS
  73 ----------------------------------
  74 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  75 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  76 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  77 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  78 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  79 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
  80 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  81 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  82 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  83 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  84 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  85 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  86 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  87 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
  88 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
  89 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
  90 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  91 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
  93 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
  94 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
  95
  96 \f
  97 Local variables:
  98 mode: outline
  99 coding: utf-8
 100 end: