comparison admin/FOR-RELEASE @ 83552:d3099204c799

Merged from [e-mail] Patches applied: * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-585 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-586 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-587 Update from erc--emacs--22 * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-588 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-589 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-590 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-591 Update from CVS git-archimport-id: [e-mail]--2004/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-592

83551:d9dc7e67ad3f

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.

   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.

** [e-mail], Dec 21:
  Saving when the coding system can't code all buffer characters

** How should C-x C-v ask about saving?

** [e-mail], 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.

** [e-mail]'s patches for location of Info file directory.

** [e-mail], Nov 22:
  URL not following some 302 redirects after recent changes

** Give recommendations for redefining window manager keys
  to avoid interference with Emacs.

** [e-mail], 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

** [e-mail], Dec 29: 4 week-old pretest bugs
  Two GTK version bugs.

** pgg bugs reported by rms.

* DOCUMENTATION

** Check the Emacs Tutorial.

83552:d3099204c799

Tasks needed before the next release.

* UPDATE COPYRIGHTS (Happy New Year :-)


* 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.

** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.

** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.

   BROKEN_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT in ms-w32.h.


* BUGS

** Need papers from Rubini for his code in t-mouse.el
  Sent instructions.

** [e-mail], Dec 21:
  Saving when the coding system can't code all buffer characters

** How should C-x C-v ask about saving?

** [e-mail], Dec 16:
  compilation-previous-error fails if first error is at start of buffer

** W3 status with latest url package.

** Fix up the notices in oldXMenu properly.

** [e-mail]'s patches for location of Info file directory.

** [e-mail], Nov 22:
  URL not following some 302 redirects after recent changes

** [e-mail], Jan 2: Bug in incremental undrawing of mouseover highlighting
** [e-mail], 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

** [e-mail], Dec 29: 4 week-old pretest bugs
  Two GTK version bugs.

** pgg bugs reported by rms.

** (global-set-key "\M-k" 'bury-buffer) confuses tutorial warnings.

** [e-mail], Jan 5: Failure to submit second netnews message

** [e-mail], Jan 5: 
    url-http.el: calling the callback function for proxy connections

* DOCUMENTATION

** Check the Emacs Tutorial.