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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 fringe bitmaps are defined and used.
  31 Currently, bitmap usage and bitmap appearence are "mixed-up" in a
  32 one-level representation.  It would be cleaner to split the
  33 representation into a two-level model where first level maps
  34 bitmap usage to a bitmap name, and second level maps bitmap name to
  35 a bitmap appearence.
  36 [Assigned to KFS]
  37
  38 ** Install Zhilin's icons.
  39
  40 * FATAL ERRORS
  41
  42 ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.
  43
  44 ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
  45 invalid pointer from string_free_list.
  46
  47 * BUGS
  48
  49 ** Fix window resizing bug:
  50 C-x 2, C-x 3, C-x 2. Now try to move the bottom of the
  51 second window to the left.
  52
  53 ** Fix completion highlighting bug in partial completion mode.
  54
  55 ** Clean up the confusion about what `unspecified' means
  56 in the face defaults for new frames.
  57
  58 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  59
  60 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  61 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  62 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  63 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
  64
  65 * DOCUMENTATION
  66
  67 ** Update what needs to be updated now that Global Font Lock mode and
  68 File Name Shadow mode are enabled by default.
  69
  70 ** Check man/info.texi.
  71
  72 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
  73
  74 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
  75 you're going to handle.
  76
  77 DIRECTORY               STATUS          IN CHARGE
  78 ---------               ------          ---------
  79 etc (and subdirs)       done            Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org))
  80 leim                    working         Kenichi Handa
  81 lib-src                 done            ttn
  82 lisp                    done            ttn
  83 lisp/calc               done            ttn
  84 lisp/calendar           working         Glenn Morris
  85 lisp/emacs-lisp         done            ttn
  86 lisp/emulation          done            ttn
  87 lisp/eshell             done            ttn
  88 lisp/gnus               done            ttn
  89 lisp/international      done            Kenichi Handa
  90 lisp/language           done            Kenichi Handa
  91 lisp/mail               done            ttn
  92 lisp/mh-e               done            Bill Wohler
  93 lisp/net                done            ttn
  94 lisp/obsolete           done            ttn
  95 lisp/play               done            ttn
  96 lisp/progmodes          done            Nick Roberts
  97 lisp/term               done            ttn
  98 lisp/textmodes          done            ttn
  99 lisp/url                done            ttn
 100 lispintro               done            ttn
 101 lispref                 done            ttn
 102 lwlib                   done            ttn
 103 m4                      done            ttn
 104 mac (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 105 man                     done            ttn
 106 msdos                   done            ttn
 107 nt (and subdirs)        done            ttn
 108 oldXMenu                done            ttn
 109 src (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 110 vms                     done            ttn
 111
 112 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 113
 114 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 115 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 116 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 117 people who have checked it.
 118
 119 SECTION             READERS
 120 -----------------------------
 121 man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
 122 man/anti.texi       Chong Yidong
 123 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 124 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 125 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 126 man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 127 man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 128 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 129 man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong
 130 man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
 131 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 132 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
 133 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 134 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 135 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 136 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 137 man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
 138 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 139 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 140 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 141 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 142 man/macos.texi      Chong Yidong
 143 man/maintaining.texi Chong Yidong
 144 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 145 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 146 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 147 man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
 148 man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
 149 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
 150 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 151 man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
 152 man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
 153 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 154 man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 155 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 156 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 157 man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 158 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 159 man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
 160 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 161 man/xresources.texi
 162
 163 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 164
 165 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 166 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 167 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 168 people who have checked it.
 169
 170 SECTION                  READERS
 171 ----------------------------------
 172 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 173 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 174 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
 175 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 176 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 177 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 178 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 179 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 180 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 181 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong
 182 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 183 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 184 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 185 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 186 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 187 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 188 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 189 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 190 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 191 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 192 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 193 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
 194 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 195 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 196 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 197 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 198 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 199 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 200 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 201 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 202 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 203 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 204 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 205 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 206 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 207 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 208 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 209 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 210 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 211 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 212 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 213 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 214 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 215 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 216 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 217 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 218 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 219 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 220 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 221
 222 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 223
 224 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 225 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 226 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 227 in the respective language.
 228
 229 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 230 names of the people who have checked it.
 231
 232 SECTION                  READERS
 233 ----------------------------------
 234 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 235 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 236 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 237 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 238 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 239 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 240 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 241 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 242 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 243 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 244 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 245 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 246 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 247 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 248 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 249 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 250 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 251 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 252 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 253 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 254
 255 \f
 256 Local variables:
 257 mode: outline
 258 end: