1 Tasks needed before the next release.
3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
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.
8 ** Update release dates of manuals.
10 ** Spell check the manuals.
12 ** Get rid of overfull and underfull boxes in manuals.
14 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
15 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
17 ** Update facemenu-unlisted-faces, adding whatever other
18 face name prefixes should be in it for good results.
22 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
24 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
26 ** Check what should be deleted or updated in MORE.STUFF.
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.
31 ** Ensure MH-E 8.0 has been released.
32 Assigned to Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>.
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
46 ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.
48 ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
49 invalid pointer from string_free_list.
53 ** Ronan Keryell's Sep 23 bug about "tramp sudo:: and version control on RCS"
55 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
57 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
58 excesive CPU on some Windows environments. Usages of 50% and 100%
59 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
60 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
64 ** Add a node to the Lisp manual describing key sequences from the
67 ** Check man/info.texi.
69 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
71 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
72 you're going to handle.
74 DIRECTORY STATUS IN CHARGE
75 --------- ------ ---------
76 etc (and subdirs) done Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org))
77 leim working Kenichi Handa
81 lisp/calendar done Glenn Morris
82 lisp/emacs-lisp done ttn
83 lisp/emulation done ttn
86 lisp/international done Kenichi Handa
87 lisp/language done Kenichi Handa
89 lisp/mh-e done Bill Wohler
91 lisp/obsolete done ttn
93 lisp/progmodes done Nick Roberts
95 lisp/textmodes done ttn
101 mac (and subdirs) done ttn
104 nt (and subdirs) done ttn
106 src (and subdirs) done ttn
109 ** Check the Emacs manual.
111 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
112 regarding recent changes by at least two people. After each file
113 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
114 people who have checked it.
117 -----------------------------
118 man/abbrevs.texi Chong Yidong Joakim Verona
119 man/anti.texi Chong Yidong
120 man/basic.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
121 man/buffers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
122 man/building.texi "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
123 man/calendar.texi joakim@verona.se Chong Yidong
124 man/cmdargs.texi Chong Yidong "Luc Teirlinck"
125 man/commands.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
126 man/custom.texi Chong Yidong "Luc Teirlinck"
127 man/dired.texi Chong Yidong joakim@verona.se
128 man/display.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
129 man/emacs.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Lute Kamstra
130 man/entering.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
131 man/files.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
132 man/fixit.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
133 man/frames.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
134 man/glossary.texi Chong Yidong
135 man/help.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
136 man/indent.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
137 man/killing.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
138 man/kmacro.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
139 man/macos.texi Chong Yidong
140 man/maintaining.texi Chong Yidong
141 man/major.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
142 man/mark.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
143 man/mini.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
144 man/misc.texi Chong Yidong
145 man/msdog.texi Chong Yidong
146 man/mule.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Kenichi Handa
147 man/m-x.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
148 man/picture.texi Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se> Chong Yidong
149 man/programs.texi "Stephen Eglen" Chong Yidong
150 man/regs.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
151 man/rmail.texi Chong Yidong "Luc Teirlinck"
152 man/screen.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
153 man/search.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
154 man/sending.texi Chong Yidong "Luc Teirlinck"
155 man/text.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
156 man/trouble.texi Chong Yidong
157 man/windows.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
160 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
162 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
163 regarding recent changes by at least two people. After each file
164 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
165 people who have checked it.
168 ----------------------------------
169 lispref/abbrevs.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
170 lispref/advice.texi joakim@verona.se Chong Yidong
171 lispref/anti.texi Chong Yidong
172 lispref/backups.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
173 lispref/buffers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
174 lispref/calendar.texi Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se> Chong Yidong
175 lispref/commands.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
176 lispref/compile.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
177 lispref/control.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
178 lispref/customize.texi Chong Yidong "Luc Teirlinck"
179 lispref/debugging.texi Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se> Lute Kamstra
180 lispref/display.texi Chong Yidong
181 lispref/edebug.texi Chong Yidong "Luc Teirlinck"
182 lispref/elisp.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Lute Kamstra
183 lispref/errors.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
184 lispref/eval.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
185 lispref/files.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
186 lispref/frames.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
187 lispref/functions.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
188 lispref/hash.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
189 lispref/help.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
190 lispref/hooks.texi Lute Kamstra Chong Yidong
191 lispref/internals.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
192 lispref/intro.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Josh Varner
193 lispref/keymaps.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
194 lispref/lists.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
195 lispref/loading.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
196 lispref/locals.texi Chong Yidong
197 lispref/macros.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
198 lispref/maps.texi Chong Yidong
199 lispref/markers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
200 lispref/minibuf.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
201 lispref/modes.texi Chong Yidong
202 lispref/nonascii.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
203 lispref/numbers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
204 lispref/objects.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
205 lispref/os.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
206 lispref/positions.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
207 lispref/processes.texi Chong Yidong ttn
208 lispref/searching.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
209 lispref/sequences.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
210 lispref/streams.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
211 lispref/strings.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
212 lispref/symbols.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
213 lispref/syntax.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
214 lispref/text.texi Chong Yidong
215 lispref/tips.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
216 lispref/variables.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
217 lispref/windows.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong
219 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
221 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
222 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
223 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
224 in the respective language.
226 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
227 names of the people who have checked it.
230 ----------------------------------
232 etc/TUTORIAL.bg Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
234 etc/TUTORIAL.cs Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
235 etc/TUTORIAL.de Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
236 etc/TUTORIAL.es Marcelo Toledo
239 etc/TUTORIAL.ja Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
241 etc/TUTORIAL.nl Lute Kamstra
242 etc/TUTORIAL.pl Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
243 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR Marcelo Toledo
245 etc/TUTORIAL.ru Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
246 etc/TUTORIAL.sk Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
247 etc/TUTORIAL.sl Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
248 etc/TUTORIAL.sv Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
249 etc/TUTORIAL.th Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>