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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 ** Add a node to the Lisp manual describing key sequences from the
  65 Lisp point of view.
  66
  67 ** Check man/info.texi.
  68
  69 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
  70
  71 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
  72 you're going to handle.
  73
  74 DIRECTORY               STATUS          IN CHARGE
  75 ---------               ------          ---------
  76 etc (and subdirs)       done            Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org))
  77 leim                    done            Kenichi Handa
  78 lib-src                 done            ttn
  79 lisp                    done            ttn
  80 lisp/calc               done            ttn
  81 lisp/calendar           done            Glenn Morris
  82 lisp/emacs-lisp         done            ttn
  83 lisp/emulation          done            ttn
  84 lisp/eshell             done            ttn
  85 lisp/gnus               done            ttn
  86 lisp/international      done            Kenichi Handa
  87 lisp/language           done            Kenichi Handa
  88 lisp/mail               done            ttn
  89 lisp/mh-e               done            Bill Wohler
  90 lisp/net                done            ttn
  91 lisp/obsolete           done            ttn
  92 lisp/play               done            ttn
  93 lisp/progmodes          done            Nick Roberts
  94 lisp/term               done            ttn
  95 lisp/textmodes          done            ttn
  96 lisp/url                done            ttn
  97 lispintro               done            ttn
  98 lispref                 done            ttn
  99 lwlib                   done            ttn
 100 m4                      done            ttn
 101 mac (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 102 man                     done            ttn
 103 msdos                   done            ttn
 104 nt (and subdirs)        done            ttn
 105 oldXMenu                done            ttn
 106 src (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 107 vms                     done            ttn
 108
 109 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 110
 111 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 112 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 113 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 114 people who have checked it.
 115
 116 SECTION             READERS
 117 -----------------------------
 118 man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
 119 man/anti.texi       Chong Yidong
 120 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 121 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 122 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 123 man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 124 man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 125 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 126 man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 127 man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
 128 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 129 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
 130 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 131 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 132 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 133 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 134 man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
 135 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 136 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 137 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 138 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 139 man/macos.texi      Chong Yidong
 140 man/maintaining.texi Chong Yidong
 141 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 142 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 143 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 144 man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
 145 man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
 146 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
 147 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 148 man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
 149 man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
 150 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 151 man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 152 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 153 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 154 man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 155 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 156 man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
 157 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 158 man/xresources.texi
 159
 160 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 161
 162 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 163 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 164 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 165 people who have checked it.
 166
 167 SECTION                  READERS
 168 ----------------------------------
 169 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 170 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 171 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
 172 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 173 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 174 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 175 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 176 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 177 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 178 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 179 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 180 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 181 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 182 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 183 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 184 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 185 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 186 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 187 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 188 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 189 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 190 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
 191 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 192 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 193 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 194 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 195 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 196 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 197 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 198 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 199 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 200 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 201 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 202 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 203 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 204 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 205 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 206 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 207 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 208 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 209 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 210 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 211 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 212 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 213 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 214 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 215 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 216 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 217 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 218
 219 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 220
 221 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 222 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 223 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 224 in the respective language.
 225
 226 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 227 names of the people who have checked it.
 228
 229 SECTION                  READERS
 230 ----------------------------------
 231 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 232 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 233 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 234 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 235 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 236 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 237 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 238 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 239 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 240 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 241 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 242 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 243 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 244 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 245 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 246 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 247 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 248 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 249 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 250 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 251
 252 \f
 253 Local variables:
 254 mode: outline
 255 end: