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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 ** Update Speedbar.
  31
  32 * FATAL ERRORS
  33
  34 ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.
  35
  36 ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
  37 invalid pointer from string_free_list.
  38
  39 ** Emacs on Windows crashes reading JPEG images from files.
  40
  41 The problem is caused by the Emacs executable and the image library
  42 having multiple, incompatible copies of the run-time code, which can
  43 happen when mixing a MSVC build of Emacs with a MinGW build of the
  44 jpeg library (or the other way around).  The fix is straightforward
  45 and has already been posted on the developers' list, but it is on the
  46 back burner waiting for a legal comment or an alternate implementation
  47 (around 30 lines of code).
  48
  49 ** goeran@uddeborg.se's Sep 13 crash report
  50 about trying to display the invalid gif file poison.gif.
  51
  52 * BUGS
  53
  54 ** Make a new interface for specifying window configurations
  55 so that we can fix bugs in balance-windows.
  56
  57 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  58
  59 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  60 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  61 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  62
  63 * DOCUMENTATION
  64
  65 ** Update man/info.texi.
  66
  67 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
  68
  69 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
  70 you're going to handle.
  71
  72 DIRECTORY               STATUS          IN CHARGE
  73 ---------               ------          ---------
  74 etc (and subdirs)       done            Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org))
  75 leim                    working         Kenichi Handa
  76 lib-src                 done            ttn
  77 lisp                    done            ttn
  78 lisp/calc               done            ttn
  79 lisp/calendar           working         Glenn Morris
  80 lisp/emacs-lisp         done            ttn
  81 lisp/emulation          done            ttn
  82 lisp/eshell             done            ttn
  83 lisp/gnus               done            ttn
  84 lisp/international      done            Kenichi Handa
  85 lisp/language           done            Kenichi Handa
  86 lisp/mail               done            ttn
  87 lisp/mh-e               working         Bill Wohler
  88 lisp/net                done            ttn
  89 lisp/obsolete           done            ttn
  90 lisp/play               done            ttn
  91 lisp/progmodes          done            Nick Roberts
  92 lisp/term               done            ttn
  93 lisp/textmodes          done            ttn
  94 lisp/toolbar            done            ttn
  95 lisp/url                done            ttn
  96 lispintro               done            ttn
  97 lispref                 done            ttn
  98 lwlib                   done            ttn
  99 m4                      done            ttn
 100 mac (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 101 man                     done            ttn
 102 msdos                   done            ttn
 103 nt (and subdirs)        done            ttn
 104 oldXMenu                done            ttn
 105 src (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 106 vms                     done            ttn
 107
 108 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 109
 110 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 111 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 112 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 113 people who have checked it.
 114
 115 SECTION             READERS
 116 -----------------------------
 117 man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
 118 man/anti.texi
 119 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 120 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 121 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 122 man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 123 man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 124 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 125 man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong
 126 man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
 127 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 128 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
 129 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 130 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 131 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 132 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 133 man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
 134 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 135 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 136 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 137 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 138 man/macos.texi
 139 man/maintaining.texi
 140 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 141 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 142 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 143 man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
 144 man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
 145 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
 146 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 147 man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
 148 man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
 149 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 150 man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 151 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 152 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 153 man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 154 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 155 man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
 156 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 157 man/xresources.texi
 158
 159 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 160
 161 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 162 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 163 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 164 people who have checked it.
 165
 166 SECTION                  READERS
 167 ----------------------------------
 168 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 169 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 170 lispref/anti.texi
 171 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 172 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 173 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 174 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 175 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 176 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 177 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong
 178 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 179 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 180 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 181 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 182 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 183 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 184 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 185 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 186 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 187 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 188 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 189 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
 190 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 191 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 192 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 193 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 194 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 195 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 196 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 197 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 198 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 199 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 200 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 201 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 202 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 203 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 204 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 205 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 206 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 207 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 208 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 209 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 210 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 211 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 212 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 213 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 214 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 215 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 216 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 217
 218 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 219
 220 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 221 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 222 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 223 in the respective language.
 224
 225 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 226 names of the people who have checked it.
 227
 228 SECTION                  READERS
 229 ----------------------------------
 230 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 231 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 232 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 233 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 234 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 235 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 236 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 237 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 238 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 239 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 240 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 241 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 242 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 243 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 244 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 245 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 246 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 247 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 248 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 249 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 250
 251 \f
 252 Local variables:
 253 mode: outline
 254 end: