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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 ** Get rid of overfull and underfull boxes in manuals.
  11
  12 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
  13 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
  14
  15 ** Update facemenu-unlisted-faces, adding whatever other
  16 face name prefixes should be in it for good results.
  17
  18 ** Update AUTHORS.
  19
  20 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  21
  22 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  23
  24 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  25
  26 LANG    Translator            Status
  27 cs      Pavel Janík           No response
  28 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  29 fr      Eric Jacoboni         No response
  30 pl      Włodek Bzyl           No response
  31 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  32 ru      Alex Ott              Working
  33 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  34
  35 If there's no update for a translation on 2006-06-07, notify RMS.
  36
  37 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  38 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  39
  40 * BUGS
  41
  42 ** We need a way a Lisp file encoded in iso-2022 can assure
  43 reliable decoding regardless of user options.
  44
  45 ** JD Smith's 17 Apr 2006 bug report that CVS operations
  46 get mysterious unreproducible failures.
  47
  48 ** Is there a basic problem with cl-byte-compile-compiler-macro?
  49
  50 ** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
  51 .emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
  52         (setq-default truncate-lines t)
  53         (custom-set-variables
  54          '(hscroll-margin 20)
  55          '(hscroll-step 1)
  56         )
  57
  58 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  59
  60 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  61 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  62 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  63 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
  64
  65 In its current form, it sys_select says the socket is ready, so we
  66 call server_accept_connection which again calls accept() which returns
  67 -1 with errno == WSAEWOULDBLOCK (10035) indicating that there is no
  68 pending connection to accept.
  69
  70 It seems that to fix this, w32 server sockets must use WSAAsyncSelect
  71 + FD_ACCEPT to request notifications of incoming connections...
  72
  73
  74 * DOCUMENTATION
  75
  76 ** Check man/info.texi.
  77
  78 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
  79
  80 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
  81 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
  82 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
  83 people who have checked it.
  84
  85 SECTION                  READERS
  86 ----------------------------------
  87 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  88 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
  89 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
  90 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  91 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  92 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
  93 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  94 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  95 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  96 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
  97 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
  98 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
  99 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 100 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 101 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 102 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 103 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 104 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 105 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 106 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 107 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 108 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
 109 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 110 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 111 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 112 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 113 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 114 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 115 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 116 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 117 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 118 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 119 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 120 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 121 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 122 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 123 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 124 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 125 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 126 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 127 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 128 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 129 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 130 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 131 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 132 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 133 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 134 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 135 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 136
 137 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 138
 139 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 140 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 141 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 142 in the respective language.
 143
 144 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 145 names of the people who have checked it.
 146
 147 SECTION                  READERS
 148 ----------------------------------
 149 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 150 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 151 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 152 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 153 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 154 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 155 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 156 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 157 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 158 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 159 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 160 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 161 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 162 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 163 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 164 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 165 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 166 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 167 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 168 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 169
 170 \f
 171 Local variables:
 172 mode: outline
 173 coding: utf-8
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