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