1 Tasks needed before the next release.
4 See the outstanding issues at the end of admin/notes/copyright.
6 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
8 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
9 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
11 ** Check for text in manuals that assumes current version is 21.
15 ** Cleanup temporary +++/--- lines in etc/NEWS.
17 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
19 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
21 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
23 LANG Translator Status
24 cs Pavel Janík Can't work on it now.
26 fr Eric Jacoboni Done (layout might be improved)
28 pt-br Rodrigo Real Done
30 sk Miroslav Vaško No response
32 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
34 Note: regardless of the above, the following files need to be
35 regenerated to get updated copyright notices: sk-refcard.ps,
36 pl-refcard.ps, cs-refcard.ps.
38 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
39 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
41 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
42 These don't need to be fixed to start pretest, but we call the
43 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
45 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
46 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
47 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
49 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
50 (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
52 ** make-network-process :nowait t doesn't work for non-local targets
53 on Windows. This has been "fixed" for Emacs 22 by defining
54 BROKEN_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT in ms-w32.h.
59 ** W3 status with latest url package.
61 ** Fix up copyright confusions.
62 See admin/notes/copyright.
64 ** simon.marshall@misys.com, Jan 12:
65 Font-lock decides function call is function declaration in C+ +
67 ** Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent
69 ** alinsoar@voila.fr, Feb 18: TAB in find-file with PARTIAL-COMPLETION-MODE on
70 He suggested a patch; is it correct?
72 ** dooglus@gmail.com, Feb 12: Customization: Toggle buttons vanish when clicked
77 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
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.
84 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
85 names of the people who have checked it.
88 ----------------------------------
90 etc/TUTORIAL.bg Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
92 etc/TUTORIAL.cs Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
93 etc/TUTORIAL.de Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
95 etc/TUTORIAL.es Marcelo Toledo
98 etc/TUTORIAL.ja Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
100 etc/TUTORIAL.nl Lute Kamstra
101 etc/TUTORIAL.pl Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
102 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR Marcelo Toledo
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>