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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 * NEW FEATURES
  27
  28 ** Make VC-over-Tramp work where possible, or at least fail
  29 gracefully if something isn't supported over Tramp.
  30 To be done by Andre Spiegel <spiegel@gnu.org>.
  31
  32 ** Update Speedbar.
  33
  34 ** Update vhdl-mode.el based on changes in
  35    http://opensource.ethz.ch/emacs/vhdl-mode.html.
  36
  37 ** Debug custom themes.
  38
  39 * FATAL ERRORS
  40
  41 ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.
  42
  43 ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
  44 invalid pointer from string_free_list.
  45
  46 * BUGS
  47
  48 ** Fix those modes that still use compile-internal, to not use it.
  49
  50 ** Bug in ebrowse
  51
  52 Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:35:48 +0200
  53 From: Markus Gritsch <gritsch@iue.tuwien.ac.at>
  54
  55 the C++ header file which led to the problematic BROWSE file reads
  56
  57 namespace test {
  58      class Base
  59      {
  60      };
  61
  62      class B : public Base
  63      {
  64      };
  65 }
  66
  67 class A : public test::Base
  68 {
  69 };
  70
  71 The *Tree* is then displayed as
  72
  73    *Globals*
  74    test
  75    test::Base
  76      test::B
  77
  78 The class A seems to be missing.
  79
  80 ** Ange-ftp should ignore irrelevant IPv6 errors:
  81
  82 Message-Id: <4121-Tue23Mar2004165249+0100-piet@cs.uu.nl>
  83 From: "Piet van Oostrum" <piet@cs.uu.nl>
  84 To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
  85 Subject: Ange-ftp can't deal with IPV6/IPV4 fallback
  86
  87 Symptoms:
  88
  89 C-x C-f /ftp.nluug.nl:/
  90
  91 The problem is that the DNS first gives an IPV6 address. However our
  92 router doesn't do IPV6. Ftp then falls back to IPV4:
  93
  94 ftp> open ftp.nluug.nl
  95 Trying 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:36...
  96 ftp: connect to address 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:36: No route to host
  97 Trying 192.87.102.36...
  98 Connected to ftp.nluug.nl.
  99
 100 Ange-ftp chokes on the `No route to host' message and doesn't look any
 101 further.
 102
 103 I think in the near future we will see more of this problem, so it might be
 104 time to make anfe-ftp more intelligent.
 105
 106 * DOCUMENTATION
 107
 108 ** Document Custom Themes.
 109
 110 ** Update man/info.texi.
 111
 112 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
 113
 114 Policy document admin/notes/years must be updated before
 115 making further progress on this task!!!
 116
 117 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
 118 you're going to handle.
 119
 120 DIRECTORY               STATUS          IN CHARGE
 121 ---------               ------          ---------
 122 leim                    working         Kenichi Handa
 123 lisp/calc               working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 124 lisp/calendar           working         Glenn Morris
 125 lisp/emulation          working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 126 lisp/eshell             working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 127 lisp/international      done            Kenichi Handa
 128 lisp/languages          done            Kenichi Handa
 129 lisp/mh-e               working         Bill Wohler
 130 lisp/net                working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 131 lisp/play               working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 132 lisp/term               working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 133 lisp/toolbar            working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 134 lisp/url                working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 135
 136 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 137
 138 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 139 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 140 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 141 people who have checked it.
 142
 143 SECTION             READERS
 144 -----------------------------
 145 man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
 146 man/anti.texi
 147 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 148 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 149 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 150 man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 151 man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 152 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 153 man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong
 154 man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
 155 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 156 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
 157 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 158 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 159 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 160 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 161 man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
 162 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 163 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 164 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 165 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 166 man/macos.texi
 167 man/maintaining.texi
 168 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 169 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 170 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 171 man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
 172 man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
 173 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
 174 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 175 man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
 176 man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
 177 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 178 man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 179 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 180 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 181 man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 182 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 183 man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
 184 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 185 man/xresources.texi
 186
 187 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 188
 189 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 190 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 191 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 192 people who have checked it.
 193
 194 SECTION                  READERS
 195 ----------------------------------
 196 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 197 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 198 lispref/anti.texi
 199 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 200 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 201 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 202 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 203 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 204 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 205 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong
 206 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 207 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 208 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 209 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 210 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"
 211 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 212 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 213 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 214 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 215 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 216 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 217 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra
 218 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 219 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 220 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 221 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 222 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 223 lispref/locals.texi
 224 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 225 lispref/maps.texi
 226 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 227 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 228 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 229 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 230 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 231 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 232 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 233 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 234 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      Thien-Thi Nguyen
 235 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 236 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 237 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 238 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 239 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 240 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 241 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 242 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 243 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 244 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 245
 246 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 247
 248 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 249 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 250 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 251 in the respective language.
 252
 253 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 254 names of the people who have checked it.
 255
 256 SECTION                  READERS
 257 ----------------------------------
 258 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 259 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 260 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 261 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 262 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 263 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 264 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          Thien-Thi Nguyen
 265 etc/TUTORIAL.it          Thien-Thi Nguyen
 266 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 267 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 268 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 269 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 270 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 271 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 272 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 273 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 274 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 275 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 276 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 277 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 278
 279 \f
 280 Local variables:
 281 mode: outline
 282 end: