FOR-RELEASE

Tasks needed before the next release.

* TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE

** Update release dates of manuals.

** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.

** Update AUTHORS.

** 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.

** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
.emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
	(setq-default truncate-lines t)
	(custom-set-variables
	 '(hscroll-margin 20)
	 '(hscroll-step 1)
	)

** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
Windows only bug.

* BUGS

** How rcirc puts cursor at bottom.

** rcirc uses member*.

** Field handling in C-n.

** cursor display on images that don't use :mask.

** C-g fails to interrupt accept-process-output in Gnus.
  (Is that fixed?)

** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem.
  (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)

** Make key-binding use the maps specified by positions given in the events.

** Is it necessary to solve in another way the problem that was solved
 by Satyaki Das's removed pgg patches?

** mouse-autoselect-window delay patch

** next-error confused by GCC included file message.

** Bug in woman, Juri Linkov, Sep 3.

** Problem of passing temp files to GPG thru call-process.

** Image scrolling problems reported by David Kastrup.  (KFS working).


* 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 <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
etc/TUTORIAL.cn
etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
etc/TUTORIAL.ja		 Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
etc/TUTORIAL.ko
etc/TUTORIAL.nl		 Lute Kamstra
etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
etc/TUTORIAL.ro
etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
etc/TUTORIAL.zh


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