1 Tasks needed before the next release.
3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
5 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
6 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
8 ** Cleanup temporary +++/--- lines in etc/NEWS.
10 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
12 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
14 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
16 LANG Translator Status
17 cs Pavel Janík Can't work on it now.
21 pt-br Rodrigo Real Done
23 sk Miroslav Vaško No response
25 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
27 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
28 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
30 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
32 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
33 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
35 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
36 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
37 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
39 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
40 (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
44 ** spurious scrolling bug
45 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00443.html
48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00082.html
49 Reported by Kim Storm, who says "I've tried many ways / many times to
50 reproduce the crash, but I cannot... messing around with this in
51 various ways does not crash Emacs no matter how much I try."
53 ** ryanmcgeary@hotmail.com, Apr 9: x-display-pixel-width
54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00400.html
55 Not a bug, but doc must be updated.
57 ** Parsing URL attributes - url-mailto, url-imap, url-ldap broken?
58 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00455.html
60 ** lennart.borgman@gmail.com, Apr 11: before-string in overlay
61 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00153.html
63 ** footnote.el doesn't really let people customize footnote-style.
64 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00406.html
66 ** compile.el change to use compilation-directory instead of
67 default-directory does not work right.
68 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00342.html
70 ** BibTeX-mode: bibtex-user-optional-fields: INIT without {}
71 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00255.html
75 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
77 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
78 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
79 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying
80 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
82 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
83 names of the people who have checked it.
86 ----------------------------------
88 etc/TUTORIAL.bg Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
90 etc/TUTORIAL.cs Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
91 etc/TUTORIAL.de Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
93 etc/TUTORIAL.es Marcelo Toledo
96 etc/TUTORIAL.ja Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
98 etc/TUTORIAL.nl Lute Kamstra
99 etc/TUTORIAL.pl Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
100 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR Marcelo Toledo
102 etc/TUTORIAL.ru Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
103 etc/TUTORIAL.sk Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
104 etc/TUTORIAL.sl Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
105 etc/TUTORIAL.sv Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
106 etc/TUTORIAL.th Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>