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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 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  29 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  30
  31 ** Ensure MH-E 8.0 has been released.
  32 Assigned to Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>.
  33
  34 * BUGS
  35
  36 ** Stefan Monnier's March 20 bug report about 3d boxes in header line.
  37
  38 ** Is there a basic problem with cl-byte-compile-compiler-macro?
  39
  40 ** Recalculate the tool bar height after changing the default font.
  41 (Bug report by Yamamoto Mistuharu, 31 Mar 2006)
  42
  43 ** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
  44 .emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
  45         (setq-default truncate-lines t)
  46         (custom-set-variables
  47          '(hscroll-margin 20)
  48          '(hscroll-step 1)
  49         )
  50
  51 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  52
  53 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  54 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  55 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  56 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
  57
  58 In its current form, it sys_select says the socket is ready, so we
  59 call server_accept_connection which again calls accept() which returns
  60 -1 with errno == WSAEWOULDBLOCK (10035) indicating that there is no
  61 pending connection to accept.
  62
  63 It seems that to fix this, w32 server sockets must use WSAAsyncSelect
  64 + FD_ACCEPT to request notifications of incoming connections...
  65
  66
  67 * DOCUMENTATION
  68
  69 ** Add a node to the Lisp manual describing key sequences from the
  70 Lisp point of view.
  71
  72 ** Check man/info.texi.
  73
  74 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
  75
  76 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
  77 you're going to handle.
  78
  79 DIRECTORY               STATUS          IN CHARGE
  80 ---------               ------          ---------
  81 etc (and subdirs)       done            Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org))
  82 leim                    done            Kenichi Handa
  83 lib-src                 done            ttn
  84 lisp                    done            ttn
  85 lisp/calc               done            Jay Belanger
  86 lisp/calendar           done            Glenn Morris
  87 lisp/emacs-lisp         done            ttn
  88 lisp/emulation          done            ttn
  89 lisp/eshell             done            ttn
  90 lisp/gnus               done            Romain Francoise
  91 lisp/international      done            Kenichi Handa
  92 lisp/language           done            Kenichi Handa
  93 lisp/mail               done            ttn
  94 lisp/mh-e               done            Bill Wohler
  95 lisp/net                done            ttn
  96 lisp/obsolete           done            ttn
  97 lisp/play               done            Romain Francoise
  98 lisp/progmodes          done            Nick Roberts
  99 lisp/term               done            ttn
 100 lisp/textmodes          done            ttn
 101 lisp/url                done            ttn
 102 lispintro               done            ttn
 103 lispref                 done            ttn
 104 lwlib                   done            ttn
 105 m4                      done            ttn
 106 mac (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 107 man                     done            ttn
 108 msdos                   done            ttn
 109 nt (and subdirs)        done            ttn
 110 oldXMenu                done            ttn
 111 src (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 112 vms                     done            ttn
 113
 114 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 115
 116 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 117 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 118 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 119 people who have checked it.
 120
 121 SECTION             READERS
 122 -----------------------------
 123 man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
 124 man/anti.texi       Chong Yidong
 125 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 126 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 127 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 128 man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 129 man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 130 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 131 man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 132 man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
 133 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 134 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
 135 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 136 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 137 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 138 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 139 man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
 140 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 141 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 142 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 143 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 144 man/macos.texi      Chong Yidong
 145 man/maintaining.texi Chong Yidong
 146 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 147 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 148 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 149 man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
 150 man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
 151 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
 152 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 153 man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
 154 man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
 155 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 156 man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 157 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 158 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 159 man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 160 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 161 man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
 162 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 163 man/xresources.texi
 164
 165 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 166
 167 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 168 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 169 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 170 people who have checked it.
 171
 172 SECTION                  READERS
 173 ----------------------------------
 174 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 175 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 176 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
 177 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 178 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 179 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 180 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 181 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 182 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 183 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 184 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 185 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 186 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 187 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 188 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 189 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 190 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 191 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 192 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 193 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 194 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 195 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
 196 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 197 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 198 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 199 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 200 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 201 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 202 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 203 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 204 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 205 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 206 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 207 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 208 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 209 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 210 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 211 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 212 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 213 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 214 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 215 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 216 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 217 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 218 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 219 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 220 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 221 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 222 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 223
 224 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 225
 226 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 227 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 228 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 229 in the respective language.
 230
 231 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 232 names of the people who have checked it.
 233
 234 SECTION                  READERS
 235 ----------------------------------
 236 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 237 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 238 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 239 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 240 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 241 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 242 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 243 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 244 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 245 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 246 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 247 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 248 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 249 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 250 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 251 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 252 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 253 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 254 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 255 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 256
 257 \f
 258 Local variables:
 259 mode: outline
 260 end: