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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 ** Change .emacs.d/.emacs to .emacs.d/emacs.
  31
  32 ** Rework how the fringe "angle" bitmap at at bottom of buffer is
  33 shown to include an indication of whether the last line has a NL or not.
  34 [Assigned to KFS]
  35
  36 ** Rework how fringe bitmaps are defined and used.
  37 Currently, bitmap usage and bitmap appearence are "mixed-up" in a
  38 one-level representation.  It would be cleaner to split the
  39 representation into a two-level model where first level maps
  40 bitmap usage to a bitmap name, and second level maps bitmap name to
  41 a bitmap appearence.
  42 [Assigned to KFS]
  43
  44 * FATAL ERRORS
  45
  46 ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.
  47
  48 ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
  49 invalid pointer from string_free_list.
  50
  51 * BUGS
  52
  53 ** VC bug report from Peter Milliken on Sep 21 (emacs-pretest-bug).
  54
  55 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  56
  57 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  58 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  59 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  60 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
  61
  62 * DOCUMENTATION
  63
  64 ** Update man/info.texi.
  65
  66 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
  67
  68 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
  69 you're going to handle.
  70
  71 DIRECTORY               STATUS          IN CHARGE
  72 ---------               ------          ---------
  73 etc (and subdirs)       done            Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org))
  74 leim                    working         Kenichi Handa
  75 lib-src                 done            ttn
  76 lisp                    done            ttn
  77 lisp/calc               done            ttn
  78 lisp/calendar           working         Glenn Morris
  79 lisp/emacs-lisp         done            ttn
  80 lisp/emulation          done            ttn
  81 lisp/eshell             done            ttn
  82 lisp/gnus               done            ttn
  83 lisp/international      done            Kenichi Handa
  84 lisp/language           done            Kenichi Handa
  85 lisp/mail               done            ttn
  86 lisp/mh-e               done            Bill Wohler
  87 lisp/net                done            ttn
  88 lisp/obsolete           done            ttn
  89 lisp/play               done            ttn
  90 lisp/progmodes          done            Nick Roberts
  91 lisp/term               done            ttn
  92 lisp/textmodes          done            ttn
  93 lisp/url                done            ttn
  94 lispintro               done            ttn
  95 lispref                 done            ttn
  96 lwlib                   done            ttn
  97 m4                      done            ttn
  98 mac (and subdirs)       done            ttn
  99 man                     done            ttn
 100 msdos                   done            ttn
 101 nt (and subdirs)        done            ttn
 102 oldXMenu                done            ttn
 103 src (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 104 vms                     done            ttn
 105
 106 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 107
 108 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 109 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 110 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 111 people who have checked it.
 112
 113 SECTION             READERS
 114 -----------------------------
 115 man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
 116 man/anti.texi       Chong Yidong
 117 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 118 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 119 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 120 man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 121 man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 122 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 123 man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong
 124 man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
 125 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 126 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
 127 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 128 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 129 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 130 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 131 man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
 132 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 133 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 134 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 135 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 136 man/macos.texi
 137 man/maintaining.texi Chong Yidong
 138 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 139 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 140 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 141 man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
 142 man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
 143 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
 144 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 145 man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
 146 man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
 147 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 148 man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 149 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 150 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 151 man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 152 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 153 man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
 154 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 155 man/xresources.texi
 156
 157 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 158
 159 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 160 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 161 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 162 people who have checked it.
 163
 164 SECTION                  READERS
 165 ----------------------------------
 166 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 167 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 168 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
 169 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 170 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 171 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 172 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 173 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 174 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 175 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong
 176 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 177 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 178 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 179 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 180 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 181 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 182 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 183 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 184 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 185 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 186 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 187 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
 188 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 189 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 190 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 191 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 192 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 193 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 194 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 195 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 196 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 197 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 198 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 199 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 200 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 201 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 202 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 203 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 204 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 205 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 206 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 207 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 208 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 209 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 210 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 211 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 212 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 213 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 214 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 215
 216 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 217
 218 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 219 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 220 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 221 in the respective language.
 222
 223 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 224 names of the people who have checked it.
 225
 226 SECTION                  READERS
 227 ----------------------------------
 228 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 229 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 230 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 231 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 232 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 233 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 234 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 235 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 236 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 237 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 238 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 239 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 240 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 241 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 242 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 243 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 244 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 245 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 246 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 247 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 248
 249 \f
 250 Local variables:
 251 mode: outline
 252 end: