Tasks needed before the next release. * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals; make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. ** Check for text in manuals that assumes current version is 21. ** Update AUTHORS. [Done 2006-10-03] ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc. ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them. Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib). LANG Translator Status cs Pavel Janík Can't work on it now. de Sven Joachim Done fr Eric Jacoboni Done (layout might be improved) pl Włodek Bzyl Done pt-br Rodrigo Real Done ru Alex Ott Done sk Miroslav Vaško No response Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08. ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons. * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS. These don't need to be fixed to start pretest, but we call the attention of Windows users to fixing them. ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem. ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin. (Did we decide that is unreproducible?) ** make-network-process :nowait t doesn't work for non-local targets on Windows. This has been "fixed" for Emacs 22 by defining BROKEN_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT in ms-w32.h. * BUGS ** document gpg-agent. ** Need papers from Rubini for his code in t-mouse.el Sent instructions. ** lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, Dec 21: Saving when the coding system can't code all buffer characters ** Bug in ESHELL that Wiegley is supposed to fix. ** How should C-x C-v ask about saving? ** lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, Dec 16: compilation-previous-error fails if first error is at start of buffer ** CC mode fixes to be installed. ** W3 status with latest url package. ** Fix up the notices in oldXMenu properly. ** bruno@clisp.org's patches for location of Info file directory. ** disumu@x3y2z1.net, Nov 22: URL not following some 302 redirects after recent changes ** Give recommendations for redefining window manager keys to avoid interference with Emacs. ** lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, Dec 29: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode He says that customizing such a mode simply does not work. RMS says that there is no code in the generated defcustom, or elsewhere in the generated code, to implement setting that variable through the custom mechanism. ** b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net, Dec 29: GTK build crashes under X ** dooglus@gmail.com, Dec 29: 4 week-old pretest bugs Two GTK version bugs. ** pgg bugs reported by rms. * DOCUMENTATION ** Check the Emacs Tutorial. The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise in the respective language. After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the people who have checked it. SECTION READERS ---------------------------------- etc/TUTORIAL rms etc/TUTORIAL.bg Ognyan Kulev etc/TUTORIAL.cn etc/TUTORIAL.cs Pavel Janík etc/TUTORIAL.de Werner LEMBERG etc/TUTORIAL.es Marcelo Toledo etc/TUTORIAL.fr ttn etc/TUTORIAL.it ttn etc/TUTORIAL.ja Kenichi Handa etc/TUTORIAL.ko etc/TUTORIAL.nl Lute Kamstra etc/TUTORIAL.pl Slawomir Nowaczyk etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR Marcelo Toledo etc/TUTORIAL.ro etc/TUTORIAL.ru Alex Ott etc/TUTORIAL.sk Pavel Janík etc/TUTORIAL.sl Primoz PETERLIN etc/TUTORIAL.sv Mats Lidell etc/TUTORIAL.th Virach Sornlertlamvanich etc/TUTORIAL.zh Local variables: mode: outline coding: utf-8 end: