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   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
   4
   5 ** `undo-ask-before-discard', currently set to t for debugging purposes
   6 has to be set to nil: when t, it can leak memory and cause other problems.
   7
   8 ** Update release dates of manuals.
   9
  10 ** Spell check the manuals.
  11
  12 ** Get rid of overfull and underfull boxes in manuals.
  13
  14 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
  15 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
  16
  17 ** Update facemenu-unlisted-faces, adding whatever other
  18 face name prefixes should be in it for good results.
  19
  20 ** Update AUTHORS.
  21
  22 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  23
  24 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  25
  26 ** Check what should be deleted or updated in MORE.STUFF.
  27
  28 * NEW FEATURES
  29
  30 ** Make VC-over-Tramp work where possible, or at least fail
  31 gracefully if something isn't supported over Tramp.
  32 To be done by Andre Spiegel <spiegel@gnu.org>.
  33
  34 ** Update Speedbar.
  35
  36 ** Update vhdl-mode.el based on changes in
  37    http://opensource.ethz.ch/emacs/vhdl-mode.html.
  38
  39 ** Debug custom themes.
  40
  41 * FATAL ERRORS
  42
  43 ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.
  44
  45 ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
  46 invalid pointer from string_free_list.
  47
  48 * BUGS
  49
  50 ** Fix those modes that still use compile-internal, to not use it.
  51
  52 ** Bug in ebrowse
  53
  54 Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:35:48 +0200
  55 From: Markus Gritsch <gritsch@iue.tuwien.ac.at>
  56
  57 the C++ header file which led to the problematic BROWSE file reads
  58
  59 namespace test {
  60      class Base
  61      {
  62      };
  63
  64      class B : public Base
  65      {
  66      };
  67 }
  68
  69 class A : public test::Base
  70 {
  71 };
  72
  73 The *Tree* is then displayed as
  74
  75    *Globals*
  76    test
  77    test::Base
  78      test::B
  79
  80 The class A seems to be missing.
  81
  82 * DOCUMENTATION
  83
  84 ** Document Custom Themes.
  85
  86 ** Update man/info.texi.
  87
  88 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
  89
  90 Policy document admin/notes/years must be updated before
  91 making further progress on this task!!!
  92
  93 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
  94 you're going to handle.
  95
  96 DIRECTORY               STATUS          IN CHARGE
  97 ---------               ------          ---------
  98 leim                    working         Kenichi Handa
  99 lisp/calc               done            Thien-Thi Nguyen
 100 lisp/calendar           working         Glenn Morris
 101 lisp/emulation          done            Thien-Thi Nguyen
 102 lisp/eshell             done            Thien-Thi Nguyen
 103 lisp/international      done            Kenichi Handa
 104 lisp/languages          done            Kenichi Handa
 105 lisp/mh-e               working         Bill Wohler
 106 lisp/net                done            Thien-Thi Nguyen
 107 lisp/play               done            Thien-Thi Nguyen
 108 lisp/progmodes          done            Nick Roberts
 109 lisp/term               done            Thien-Thi Nguyen
 110 lisp/toolbar            done            Thien-Thi Nguyen
 111 lisp/url                working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 112
 113 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 114
 115 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 116 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 117 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 118 people who have checked it.
 119
 120 SECTION             READERS
 121 -----------------------------
 122 man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
 123 man/anti.texi
 124 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 125 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 126 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 127 man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 128 man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 129 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 130 man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong
 131 man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
 132 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 133 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
 134 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 135 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 136 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 137 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 138 man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
 139 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 140 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 141 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 142 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 143 man/macos.texi
 144 man/maintaining.texi
 145 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 146 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 147 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 148 man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
 149 man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
 150 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
 151 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 152 man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
 153 man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
 154 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 155 man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 156 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 157 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 158 man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 159 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 160 man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
 161 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 162 man/xresources.texi
 163
 164 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 165
 166 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 167 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 168 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 169 people who have checked it.
 170
 171 SECTION                  READERS
 172 ----------------------------------
 173 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 174 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 175 lispref/anti.texi
 176 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 177 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 178 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 179 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 180 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 181 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 182 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong
 183 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 184 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 185 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 186 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 187 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"
 188 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 189 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 190 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 191 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 192 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 193 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 194 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra
 195 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 196 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 197 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 198 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 199 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 200 lispref/locals.texi
 201 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 202 lispref/maps.texi
 203 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 204 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 205 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 206 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 207 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 208 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 209 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 210 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 211 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      Thien-Thi Nguyen
 212 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 213 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 214 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 215 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 216 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 217 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 218 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 219 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 220 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 221 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 222
 223 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 224
 225 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 226 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 227 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 228 in the respective language.
 229
 230 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 231 names of the people who have checked it.
 232
 233 SECTION                  READERS
 234 ----------------------------------
 235 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 236 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 237 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 238 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 239 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 240 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 241 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          Thien-Thi Nguyen
 242 etc/TUTORIAL.it          Thien-Thi Nguyen
 243 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 244 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 245 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 246 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 247 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 248 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 249 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 250 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 251 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 252 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 253 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 254 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 255
 256 \f
 257 Local variables:
 258 mode: outline
 259 end: