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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 ** Make VC-over-Tramp work where possible, or at least fail
  31 gracefully if something isn't supported over Tramp.
  32 To be done by Andre Spiegel <spiegel@gnu.org>.
  33
  34 ** Update Speedbar.
  35
  36 ** Update vhdl-mode.el based on changes in
  37    http://opensource.ethz.ch/emacs/vhdl-mode.html.
  38
  39 ** Debug custom themes.
  40
  41 * FATAL ERRORS
  42
  43 ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.
  44
  45 ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
  46 invalid pointer from string_free_list.
  47
  48 * BUGS
  49
  50 ** Fix those modes that still use compile-internal, to not use it.
  51
  52 ** Bug in ebrowse
  53
  54 Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:35:48 +0200
  55 From: Markus Gritsch <gritsch@iue.tuwien.ac.at>
  56
  57 the C++ header file which led to the problematic BROWSE file reads
  58
  59 namespace test {
  60      class Base
  61      {
  62      };
  63
  64      class B : public Base
  65      {
  66      };
  67 }
  68
  69 class A : public test::Base
  70 {
  71 };
  72
  73 The *Tree* is then displayed as
  74
  75    *Globals*
  76    test
  77    test::Base
  78      test::B
  79
  80 The class A seems to be missing.
  81
  82 ** Ange-ftp should ignore irrelevant IPv6 errors:
  83
  84 Message-Id: <4121-Tue23Mar2004165249+0100-piet@cs.uu.nl>
  85 From: "Piet van Oostrum" <piet@cs.uu.nl>
  86 To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
  87 Subject: Ange-ftp can't deal with IPV6/IPV4 fallback
  88
  89 Symptoms:
  90
  91 C-x C-f /ftp.nluug.nl:/
  92
  93 The problem is that the DNS first gives an IPV6 address. However our
  94 router doesn't do IPV6. Ftp then falls back to IPV4:
  95
  96 ftp> open ftp.nluug.nl
  97 Trying 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:36...
  98 ftp: connect to address 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:36: No route to host
  99 Trying 192.87.102.36...
 100 Connected to ftp.nluug.nl.
 101
 102 Ange-ftp chokes on the `No route to host' message and doesn't look any
 103 further.
 104
 105 I think in the near future we will see more of this problem, so it might be
 106 time to make anfe-ftp more intelligent.
 107
 108 * DOCUMENTATION
 109
 110 ** Document Custom Themes.
 111
 112 ** Update man/info.texi.
 113
 114 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
 115
 116 Policy document admin/notes/years must be updated before
 117 making further progress on this task!!!
 118
 119 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
 120 you're going to handle.
 121
 122 DIRECTORY               STATUS          IN CHARGE
 123 ---------               ------          ---------
 124 leim                    working         Kenichi Handa
 125 lisp/calc               working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 126 lisp/calendar           working         Glenn Morris
 127 lisp/emulation          working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 128 lisp/eshell             working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 129 lisp/international      done            Kenichi Handa
 130 lisp/languages          done            Kenichi Handa
 131 lisp/mh-e               working         Bill Wohler
 132 lisp/net                working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 133 lisp/play               working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 134 lisp/term               working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 135 lisp/toolbar            working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 136 lisp/url                working         Thien-Thi Nguyen
 137
 138 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 139
 140 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 141 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 142 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 143 people who have checked it.
 144
 145 SECTION             READERS
 146 -----------------------------
 147 man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
 148 man/anti.texi
 149 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 150 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 151 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 152 man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 153 man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 154 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 155 man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong
 156 man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
 157 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 158 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
 159 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 160 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 161 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 162 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 163 man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
 164 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 165 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 166 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 167 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 168 man/macos.texi
 169 man/maintaining.texi
 170 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 171 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 172 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 173 man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
 174 man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
 175 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
 176 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 177 man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
 178 man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
 179 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 180 man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 181 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 182 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 183 man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 184 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 185 man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
 186 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 187 man/xresources.texi
 188
 189 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 190
 191 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 192 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 193 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 194 people who have checked it.
 195
 196 SECTION                  READERS
 197 ----------------------------------
 198 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 199 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 200 lispref/anti.texi
 201 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 202 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 203 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 204 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 205 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 206 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 207 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong
 208 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 209 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 210 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 211 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 212 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"
 213 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 214 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 215 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 216 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 217 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 218 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 219 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra
 220 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 221 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 222 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 223 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 224 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 225 lispref/locals.texi
 226 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 227 lispref/maps.texi
 228 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 229 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 230 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 231 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 232 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 233 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 234 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 235 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 236 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      Thien-Thi Nguyen
 237 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 238 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 239 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 240 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 241 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 242 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 243 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 244 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 245 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 246 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 247
 248 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 249
 250 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 251 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 252 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 253 in the respective language.
 254
 255 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 256 names of the people who have checked it.
 257
 258 SECTION                  READERS
 259 ----------------------------------
 260 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 261 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 262 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 263 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 264 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 265 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 266 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          Thien-Thi Nguyen
 267 etc/TUTORIAL.it          Thien-Thi Nguyen
 268 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 269 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 270 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 271 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 272 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 273 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 274 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 275 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 276 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 277 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 278 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 279 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 280
 281 \f
 282 Local variables:
 283 mode: outline
 284 end: