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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 ** Get rid of overfull and underfull boxes in manuals.
  11
  12 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
  13 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
  14
  15 ** Update facemenu-unlisted-faces, adding whatever other
  16 face name prefixes should be in it for good results.
  17
  18 ** Update AUTHORS.
  19
  20 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  21
  22 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  23
  24 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  25 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  26
  27 * BUGS
  28
  29 ** JD Smith's 17 Apr 2006 bug report that CVS operations
  30 get mysterious unreproducible failures.
  31
  32 ** David Hansen's bug report on 16 Apr 2006 about point-entered and
  33 point-left text properties.
  34
  35 ** Is there a basic problem with cl-byte-compile-compiler-macro?
  36
  37 ** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
  38 .emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
  39         (setq-default truncate-lines t)
  40         (custom-set-variables
  41          '(hscroll-margin 20)
  42          '(hscroll-step 1)
  43         )
  44
  45 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  46
  47 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  48 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  49 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  50 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
  51
  52 In its current form, it sys_select says the socket is ready, so we
  53 call server_accept_connection which again calls accept() which returns
  54 -1 with errno == WSAEWOULDBLOCK (10035) indicating that there is no
  55 pending connection to accept.
  56
  57 It seems that to fix this, w32 server sockets must use WSAAsyncSelect
  58 + FD_ACCEPT to request notifications of incoming connections...
  59
  60
  61 * DOCUMENTATION
  62
  63 ** Add a node to the Lisp manual describing key sequences from the
  64 Lisp point of view.
  65
  66 ** Check man/info.texi.
  67
  68 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
  69
  70 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
  71 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
  72 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
  73 people who have checked it.
  74
  75 SECTION                  READERS
  76 ----------------------------------
  77 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  78 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
  79 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
  80 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  81 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  82 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
  83 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  84 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  85 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  86 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
  87 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
  88 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
  89 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
  90 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
  91 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  92 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  93 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  94 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  95 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  96 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  97 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  98 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
  99 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 100 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 101 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 102 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 103 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 104 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 105 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 106 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 107 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 108 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 109 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 110 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 111 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 112 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 113 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 114 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 115 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 116 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 117 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 118 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 119 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 120 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 121 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 122 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 123 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 124 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 125 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 126
 127 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 128
 129 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 130 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 131 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 132 in the respective language.
 133
 134 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 135 names of the people who have checked it.
 136
 137 SECTION                  READERS
 138 ----------------------------------
 139 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 140 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 141 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 142 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 143 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 144 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 145 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 146 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 147 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 148 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 149 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 150 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 151 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 152 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 153 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 154 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 155 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 156 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 157 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 158 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 159
 160 \f
 161 Local variables:
 162 mode: outline
 163 end: