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