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 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
   9
  10 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
  11 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
  12
  13 ** Check for text in manuals that assumes current version is 21.
  14
  15 ** Update AUTHORS.
  16
  17 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  18
  19 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  20
  21 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  22
  23 LANG    Translator            Status
  24 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  25 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  26 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  27 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  28 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  29 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  30 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  31
  32 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  33
  34 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  35 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  36
  37 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  38 These don't need to be fixed to start pretest, but we call the
  39 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  40
  41 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
  42 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  43 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  44
  45 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  46   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  47
  48 ** make-network-process :nowait t doesn't work for non-local targets
  49    on Windows.  This has been "fixed" for Emacs 22 by defining
  50    BROKEN_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT in ms-w32.h.
  51
  52
  53 * BUGS
  54
  55 ** lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, Dec 21:
  56   Saving when the coding system can't code all buffer characters
  57
  58 ** Bug in ESHELL that Wiegley is supposed to fix.
  59
  60 ** W3 status with latest url package.
  61
  62 ** Fix up the notices in oldXMenu properly.
  63
  64 ** disumu@x3y2z1.net, Nov 22:
  65   URL not following some 302 redirects after recent changes
  66
  67 ** lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, Dec 29:
  68   How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode
  69 He says that customizing such a mode simply does not work.
  70 RMS says that there is no code in the generated defcustom,
  71 or elsewhere in the generated code, to implement setting that variable
  72 through the custom mechanism.
  73
  74 ** b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net, Dec 29:
  75   GTK build crashes under X
  76   Seems to be a libXft or gtk theme bug, not an Emacs bug.
  77
  78 ** simon.marshall@misys.com, Jan 12:
  79   Font-lock decides function call is function declaration in C+ +
  80
  81 * DOCUMENTATION
  82
  83 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  84
  85 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  86 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  87 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  88 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  89
  90 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  91 names of the people who have checked it.
  92
  93 SECTION                  READERS
  94 ----------------------------------
  95 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 101 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 102 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 103 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 105 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 106 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 107 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 108 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 109 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 110 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 111 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 112 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 113 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 114 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 115
 116 \f
 117 Local variables:
 118 mode: outline
 119 coding: utf-8
 120 end: