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 ** bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se, April 23: delete-overlay causes recentering
  47 (This is now the same as the spurious scrolling bug.)
  48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00514.html
  49
  50 ** Spurious redisplay bug not fixed.
  51 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00443.html
  52 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00732.html
  53
  54 ** finish fixing locate.el
  55 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00437.html
  56
  57 ** angeli@caeruleus.net, April 23: Excessive refontification when setting
  58   jit-lock-context-unfontify-pos
  59 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00993.html
  60
  61 ** michael.ewe@arcor.de, Apr 24: 22.0.98  not starting on Solaris 10/I386
  62 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01113.html
  63
  64 ** rgm@gnu.org, Apr 24: [Stephen.Berman@gmx.net: Re: redisplay]
  65   Gives test case for problem that a dialog box blocks redisplay.
  66 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00951.html
  67
  68 ** hiroshi.fujishima@gmail.com, Apr 27: emacs-22.0.99 configure problem
  69 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01452.html
  70   this is probably an issue for autoconf, rather than Emacs
  71
  72 ** C mode fontification took 50 seconds
  73 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01460.html
  74
  75 * DOCUMENTATION
  76
  77 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  78
  79 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  80 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  81 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  82 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  83
  84 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  85 names of the people who have checked it.
  86
  87 SECTION                  READERS
  88 ----------------------------------
  89 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  90 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  91 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  93 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  94 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
  95 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 101 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 102 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 103 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 105 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 106 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 107 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 108 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 109 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 110
 111 \f
 112 Local variables:
 113 mode: outline
 114 coding: utf-8
 115 end: