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