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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 AUTHORS.
  16
  17 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  18
  19 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  20
  21 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  22
  23 LANG    Translator            Status
  24 cs      Pavel Janík           No response
  25 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  26 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  27 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  28 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  29 ru      Alex Ott              Working
  30 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  31
  32 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  33
  34 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  35 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  36
  37 * BUGS
  38
  39 ** Stephen.Berman@gmx.net: isearch-yank-line and field text property
  40
  41 ** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
  42 .emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
  43         (setq-default truncate-lines t)
  44         (custom-set-variables
  45          '(hscroll-margin 20)
  46          '(hscroll-step 1)
  47         )
  48
  49 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  50
  51 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  52 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  53 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  54 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
  55
  56 In its current form, it sys_select says the socket is ready, so we
  57 call server_accept_connection which again calls accept() which returns
  58 -1 with errno == WSAEWOULDBLOCK (10035) indicating that there is no
  59 pending connection to accept.
  60
  61 It seems that to fix this, w32 server sockets must use WSAAsyncSelect
  62 + FD_ACCEPT to request notifications of incoming connections...
  63
  64
  65 * DOCUMENTATION
  66
  67 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
  68
  69 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
  70 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
  71 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
  72 people who have checked it.
  73
  74 SECTION                  READERS
  75 ----------------------------------
  76 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  77 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
  78 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
  79 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  80 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  81 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
  82 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  83 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  84 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  85 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
  86 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
  87 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
  88 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
  89 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
  90 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  91 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  92 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  93 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  94 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  95 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  96 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  97 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
  98 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  99 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 100 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 101 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 102 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 103 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong      Nick Roberts
 104 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 105 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 106 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 107 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 108 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 109 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 110 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 111 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 112 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 113 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 114 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 115 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 116 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 117 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 118 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 119 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 120 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 121 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 122 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 123 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 124 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 125
 126 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 127
 128 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 129 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 130 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 131 in the respective language.
 132
 133 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 134 names of the people who have checked it.
 135
 136 SECTION                  READERS
 137 ----------------------------------
 138 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 139 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 140 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 141 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 142 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 143 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 144 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 145 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 146 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 147 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 148 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 149 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 150 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 151 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 152 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 153 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 154 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 155 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 156 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 157 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 158
 159 \f
 160 Local variables:
 161 mode: outline
 162 coding: utf-8
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