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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 * NEW FEATURES
  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 ** circle-printing bug from Stephen Berman; see my 5 Dec message.
  54
  55 ** Ronan Keryell's Sep 23 bug about "tramp sudo:: and version control on RCS"
  56
  57 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  58
  59 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  60 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  61 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  62 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
  63
  64 * DOCUMENTATION
  65
  66 ** Add a node to the Lisp manual describing key sequences from the
  67 Lisp point of view.
  68
  69 ** Fix some of these doc strings by adding \\<keymap-name> where needed.
  70
  71 ada-mode
  72 array-mode
  73 artist-mode
  74 autoarg-mode
  75 bibtext-mode
  76 bookmark-bmenu-other-window-with-mouse
  77 checkdoc-minor-mode
  78 constrain-to-field
  79 copy-file
  80 decipher-mode
  81 define-generic-mode
  82 define-ibuffer-op
  83 diff-mode
  84 dired-maybe-insert-subdir
  85 ediff-merge-buffers-with-ancestor
  86 ediff-merge-directories-with-ancestor
  87 ediff-merge-directory-revisions-with-ancestor
  88 edir-merge-revisions-with-ancestor
  89 edirs-merge-with-ancestor
  90 edit-picture
  91 ethio-fidel-to-sera-mail-or-marker
  92 ethio-sera-to-fidel-mail-or-marker
  93 face-attribute-specified-or
  94 face-equal
  95 flyspell-mode
  96 hexl-mode
  97 hi-lock-mode
  98 ibuffer
  99 ido-find-file
 100 internal-lisp-face-equal-p
 101 isearch-forward
 102 kmacro-start-macro
 103 kmacro-start-macro-or-insert-counter
 104 make-byte-code
 105 mh-user-agent-compose
 106 next-single-char-property-change
 107 octave-mode
 108 outline-mode
 109 pascal-mode
 110 picture-mode
 111 previous-single-char-property-change
 112 python-mode
 113 read-from-minibuffer
 114 read-key-sequence
 115 read-key-sequence-vector
 116 reftex-index-phrases-mode
 117 reftex-mode
 118 rmail-mode
 119 sh-mode
 120 shell-script-mode
 121 solar-equinoxes-solstices
 122 table-capture
 123 table-insert
 124 table-split-cell-horizontally
 125 view-mode
 126 w32-shell-dos-semantics
 127
 128 ** Check man/info.texi.
 129
 130 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
 131
 132 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
 133 you're going to handle.
 134
 135 DIRECTORY               STATUS          IN CHARGE
 136 ---------               ------          ---------
 137 etc (and subdirs)       done            Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org))
 138 leim                    working         Kenichi Handa
 139 lib-src                 done            ttn
 140 lisp                    done            ttn
 141 lisp/calc               done            ttn
 142 lisp/calendar           done            Glenn Morris
 143 lisp/emacs-lisp         done            ttn
 144 lisp/emulation          done            ttn
 145 lisp/eshell             done            ttn
 146 lisp/gnus               done            ttn
 147 lisp/international      done            Kenichi Handa
 148 lisp/language           done            Kenichi Handa
 149 lisp/mail               done            ttn
 150 lisp/mh-e               done            Bill Wohler
 151 lisp/net                done            ttn
 152 lisp/obsolete           done            ttn
 153 lisp/play               done            ttn
 154 lisp/progmodes          done            Nick Roberts
 155 lisp/term               done            ttn
 156 lisp/textmodes          done            ttn
 157 lisp/url                done            ttn
 158 lispintro               done            ttn
 159 lispref                 done            ttn
 160 lwlib                   done            ttn
 161 m4                      done            ttn
 162 mac (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 163 man                     done            ttn
 164 msdos                   done            ttn
 165 nt (and subdirs)        done            ttn
 166 oldXMenu                done            ttn
 167 src (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 168 vms                     done            ttn
 169
 170 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 171
 172 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 173 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 174 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 175 people who have checked it.
 176
 177 SECTION             READERS
 178 -----------------------------
 179 man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
 180 man/anti.texi       Chong Yidong
 181 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 182 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 183 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 184 man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 185 man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 186 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 187 man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 188 man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
 189 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 190 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
 191 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 192 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 193 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 194 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 195 man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
 196 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 197 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 198 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 199 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 200 man/macos.texi      Chong Yidong
 201 man/maintaining.texi Chong Yidong
 202 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 203 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 204 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 205 man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
 206 man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
 207 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
 208 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 209 man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
 210 man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
 211 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 212 man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 213 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 214 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 215 man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 216 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 217 man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
 218 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 219 man/xresources.texi
 220
 221 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 222
 223 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 224 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 225 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 226 people who have checked it.
 227
 228 SECTION                  READERS
 229 ----------------------------------
 230 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 231 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 232 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
 233 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 234 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 235 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 236 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 237 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 238 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 239 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong
 240 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 241 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 242 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 243 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 244 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 245 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 246 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 247 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 248 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 249 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 250 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 251 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
 252 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 253 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 254 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 255 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 256 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 257 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 258 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 259 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 260 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 261 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 262 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 263 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 264 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 265 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 266 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 267 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 268 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 269 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 270 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 271 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 272 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 273 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 274 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 275 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 276 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 277 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 278 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 279
 280 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 281
 282 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 283 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 284 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 285 in the respective language.
 286
 287 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 288 names of the people who have checked it.
 289
 290 SECTION                  READERS
 291 ----------------------------------
 292 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 293 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 294 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 295 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 296 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 297 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 298 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 299 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 300 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 301 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 302 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 303 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 304 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 305 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 306 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 307 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 308 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 309 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 310 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 311 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 312
 313 \f
 314 Local variables:
 315 mode: outline
 316 end: