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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 ** Rework how the fringe "angle" bitmap at at bottom of buffer is
  31 shown to include an indication of whether the last line has a NL or not.
  32 [Assigned to KFS]
  33
  34 ** Rework how fringe bitmaps are defined and used.
  35 Currently, bitmap usage and bitmap appearence are "mixed-up" in a
  36 one-level representation.  It would be cleaner to split the
  37 representation into a two-level model where first level maps
  38 bitmap usage to a bitmap name, and second level maps bitmap name to
  39 a bitmap appearence.
  40 [Assigned to KFS]
  41
  42 ** Put a max-limit on the size of images, e.g. based on the display size.
  43 This is to avoid allocating insane amounts of memory due to bogus
  44 image size specifications.
  45 Note: rather than clipping images that are too big (this may be
  46 non-trivial to do correctly in all cases -- and thus non-trivial to
  47 test), it may be better just to avoid displaying such images for emacs 22.
  48
  49 * FATAL ERRORS
  50
  51 ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.
  52
  53 ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
  54 invalid pointer from string_free_list.
  55
  56 ** Emacs on Windows crashes reading JPEG images from files.
  57
  58 The problem is caused by the Emacs executable and the image library
  59 having multiple, incompatible copies of the run-time code, which can
  60 happen when mixing a MSVC build of Emacs with a MinGW build of the
  61 jpeg library (or the other way around).  The fix is straightforward
  62 and has already been posted on the developers' list, but it is on the
  63 back burner waiting for a legal comment or an alternate implementation
  64 (around 30 lines of code).
  65
  66 * BUGS
  67
  68 ** Make a new interface for specifying window configurations
  69 so that we can fix bugs in balance-windows.
  70
  71 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  72
  73 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  74 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  75 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  76 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
  77
  78 * DOCUMENTATION
  79
  80 ** Update man/info.texi.
  81
  82 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
  83
  84 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
  85 you're going to handle.
  86
  87 DIRECTORY               STATUS          IN CHARGE
  88 ---------               ------          ---------
  89 etc (and subdirs)       done            Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org))
  90 leim                    working         Kenichi Handa
  91 lib-src                 done            ttn
  92 lisp                    done            ttn
  93 lisp/calc               done            ttn
  94 lisp/calendar           working         Glenn Morris
  95 lisp/emacs-lisp         done            ttn
  96 lisp/emulation          done            ttn
  97 lisp/eshell             done            ttn
  98 lisp/gnus               done            ttn
  99 lisp/international      done            Kenichi Handa
 100 lisp/language           done            Kenichi Handa
 101 lisp/mail               done            ttn
 102 lisp/mh-e               working         Bill Wohler
 103 lisp/net                done            ttn
 104 lisp/obsolete           done            ttn
 105 lisp/play               done            ttn
 106 lisp/progmodes          done            Nick Roberts
 107 lisp/term               done            ttn
 108 lisp/textmodes          done            ttn
 109 lisp/toolbar            done            ttn
 110 lisp/url                done            ttn
 111 lispintro               done            ttn
 112 lispref                 done            ttn
 113 lwlib                   done            ttn
 114 m4                      done            ttn
 115 mac (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 116 man                     done            ttn
 117 msdos                   done            ttn
 118 nt (and subdirs)        done            ttn
 119 oldXMenu                done            ttn
 120 src (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 121 vms                     done            ttn
 122
 123 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 124
 125 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 126 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 127 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 128 people who have checked it.
 129
 130 SECTION             READERS
 131 -----------------------------
 132 man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
 133 man/anti.texi       Chong Yidong
 134 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 135 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 136 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 137 man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 138 man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 139 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 140 man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong
 141 man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
 142 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 143 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
 144 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 145 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 146 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 147 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 148 man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
 149 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 150 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 151 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 152 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 153 man/macos.texi
 154 man/maintaining.texi Chong Yidong
 155 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 156 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 157 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 158 man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
 159 man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
 160 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
 161 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 162 man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
 163 man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
 164 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 165 man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 166 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 167 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 168 man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 169 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 170 man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
 171 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 172 man/xresources.texi
 173
 174 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 175
 176 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 177 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 178 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 179 people who have checked it.
 180
 181 SECTION                  READERS
 182 ----------------------------------
 183 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 184 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 185 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
 186 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 187 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 188 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 189 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 190 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 191 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 192 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong
 193 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 194 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 195 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 196 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 197 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 198 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 199 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 200 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 201 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 202 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 203 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 204 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
 205 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 206 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 207 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 208 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 209 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 210 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 211 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 212 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 213 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 214 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 215 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 216 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 217 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 218 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 219 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 220 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 221 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 222 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 223 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 224 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 225 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 226 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 227 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 228 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 229 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 230 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 231 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 232
 233 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 234
 235 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 236 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 237 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 238 in the respective language.
 239
 240 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 241 names of the people who have checked it.
 242
 243 SECTION                  READERS
 244 ----------------------------------
 245 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 246 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 247 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 248 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 249 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 250 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 251 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 252 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 253 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 254 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 255 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 256 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 257 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 258 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 259 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 260 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 261 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 262 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 263 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 264 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 265
 266 \f
 267 Local variables:
 268 mode: outline
 269 end: