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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 * BUGS
  45
  46 ** Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de's Dec 3 bug report for align.el.
  47
  48 ** Ronan Keryell's Sep 23 bug about "tramp sudo:: and version control on RCS"
  49
  50 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  51
  52 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  53 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  54 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  55 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
  56
  57 * DOCUMENTATION
  58
  59 ** Add a node to the Lisp manual describing key sequences from the
  60 Lisp point of view.
  61
  62 ** Check man/info.texi.
  63
  64 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
  65
  66 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
  67 you're going to handle.
  68
  69 DIRECTORY               STATUS          IN CHARGE
  70 ---------               ------          ---------
  71 etc (and subdirs)       done            Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org))
  72 leim                    done            Kenichi Handa
  73 lib-src                 done            ttn
  74 lisp                    done            ttn
  75 lisp/calc               done            ttn
  76 lisp/calendar           done            Glenn Morris
  77 lisp/emacs-lisp         done            ttn
  78 lisp/emulation          done            ttn
  79 lisp/eshell             done            ttn
  80 lisp/gnus               done            ttn
  81 lisp/international      done            Kenichi Handa
  82 lisp/language           done            Kenichi Handa
  83 lisp/mail               done            ttn
  84 lisp/mh-e               done            Bill Wohler
  85 lisp/net                done            ttn
  86 lisp/obsolete           done            ttn
  87 lisp/play               done            ttn
  88 lisp/progmodes          done            Nick Roberts
  89 lisp/term               done            ttn
  90 lisp/textmodes          done            ttn
  91 lisp/url                done            ttn
  92 lispintro               done            ttn
  93 lispref                 done            ttn
  94 lwlib                   done            ttn
  95 m4                      done            ttn
  96 mac (and subdirs)       done            ttn
  97 man                     done            ttn
  98 msdos                   done            ttn
  99 nt (and subdirs)        done            ttn
 100 oldXMenu                done            ttn
 101 src (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 102 vms                     done            ttn
 103
 104 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 105
 106 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 107 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 108 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 109 people who have checked it.
 110
 111 SECTION             READERS
 112 -----------------------------
 113 man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
 114 man/anti.texi       Chong Yidong
 115 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 116 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 117 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 118 man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 119 man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 120 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 121 man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 122 man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
 123 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 124 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
 125 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 126 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 127 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 128 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 129 man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
 130 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 131 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 132 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 133 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 134 man/macos.texi      Chong Yidong
 135 man/maintaining.texi Chong Yidong
 136 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 137 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 138 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 139 man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
 140 man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
 141 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
 142 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 143 man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
 144 man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
 145 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 146 man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 147 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 148 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 149 man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 150 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 151 man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
 152 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 153 man/xresources.texi
 154
 155 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 156
 157 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 158 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 159 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 160 people who have checked it.
 161
 162 SECTION                  READERS
 163 ----------------------------------
 164 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 165 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 166 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
 167 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 168 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 169 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 170 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 171 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 172 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 173 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 174 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 175 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 176 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 177 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 178 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 179 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 180 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 181 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 182 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 183 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 184 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 185 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
 186 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 187 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 188 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 189 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 190 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 191 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 192 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 193 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 194 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 195 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 196 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 197 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 198 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 199 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 200 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 201 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 202 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 203 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 204 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 205 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 206 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 207 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 208 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 209 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 210 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 211 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 212 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 213
 214 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 215
 216 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 217 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 218 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 219 in the respective language.
 220
 221 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 222 names of the people who have checked it.
 223
 224 SECTION                  READERS
 225 ----------------------------------
 226 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 227 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 228 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 229 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 230 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 231 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 232 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 233 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 234 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 235 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 236 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 237 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 238 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 239 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 240 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 241 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 242 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 243 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 244 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 245 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 246
 247 \f
 248 Local variables:
 249 mode: outline
 250 end: