annotate admin/FOR-RELEASE @ 66340:72170abe8953

(Init File): Recommend when to use site-start.el.

Tasks needed before the next release.

* TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE

** `undo-ask-before-discard', currently set to t for debugging purposes
has to be set to nil: when t, it can leak memory and cause other problems.

** Update release dates of manuals.

** Spell check the manuals.

** Get rid of overfull and underfull boxes in manuals.

** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.

** Update facemenu-unlisted-faces, adding whatever other
face name prefixes should be in it for good results.

** Update AUTHORS.

** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.

** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.

** Check what should be deleted or updated in MORE.STUFF.

* NEW FEATURES

** Rework how the fringe "angle" bitmap at at bottom of buffer is
shown to include an indication of whether the last line has a NL or not.
[Assigned to KFS]

** Rework how fringe bitmaps are defined and used.
Currently, bitmap usage and bitmap appearence are "mixed-up" in a
one-level representation.  It would be cleaner to split the
representation into a two-level model where first level maps
bitmap usage to a bitmap name, and second level maps bitmap name to
a bitmap appearence.
[Assigned to KFS]

* FATAL ERRORS

** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.

** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
invalid pointer from string_free_list.

* BUGS

** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.

TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.

** Chinese characters display quadruple width on Windows.

This was caused by the change to w32fns.c on 2005-01-03, but that is
required to fix another bug. See "[Bug] Unusual wide Chinese fonts on
w32 (again)" and "Problem with chinese gbk fonts on w32" in
emacs-devel list.

* DOCUMENTATION

** Update man/info.texi.

** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.

Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
you're going to handle.

DIRECTORY		STATUS		IN CHARGE
---------		------		---------
etc (and subdirs)	done		Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org))
leim			working		Kenichi Handa
lib-src			done		ttn
lisp			done		ttn
lisp/calc		done		ttn
lisp/calendar		working		Glenn Morris
lisp/emacs-lisp		done		ttn
lisp/emulation		done		ttn
lisp/eshell		done		ttn
lisp/gnus		done		ttn
lisp/international	done		Kenichi Handa
lisp/language		done		Kenichi Handa
lisp/mail		done		ttn
lisp/mh-e		done		Bill Wohler
lisp/net		done		ttn
lisp/obsolete		done		ttn
lisp/play		done		ttn
lisp/progmodes		done		Nick Roberts
lisp/term		done		ttn
lisp/textmodes		done		ttn
lisp/url		done		ttn
lispintro		done		ttn
lispref			done		ttn
lwlib			done		ttn
m4			done		ttn
mac (and subdirs)	done		ttn
man			done		ttn
msdos			done		ttn
nt (and subdirs)	done		ttn
oldXMenu		done		ttn
src (and subdirs)	done		ttn
vms			done		ttn

** Check the Emacs manual.

Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
people who have checked it.

SECTION             READERS
-----------------------------
man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
man/anti.texi       Chong Yidong
man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <[e-mail]>
man/calendar.texi   [e-mail]  Chong Yidong
man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong
man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     [e-mail]
man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/macos.texi
man/maintaining.texi Chong Yidong
man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <[e-mail]>   Chong Yidong
man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
man/xresources.texi

** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.

Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
people who have checked it.

SECTION                  READERS
----------------------------------
lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/advice.texi	 [e-mail]  Chong Yidong
lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <[e-mail]>  Chong Yidong
lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong
lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <[e-mail]>   Lute Kamstra
lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/functions.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/hash.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/help.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/hooks.texi	 Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
lispref/internals.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/intro.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
lispref/keymaps.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/lists.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/modes.texi	 Chong Yidong
lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/numbers.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/objects.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/os.texi		 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/positions.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong	   ttn
lispref/searching.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/sequences.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/streams.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/strings.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/symbols.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/syntax.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
lispref/tips.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/variables.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong

** Check the Emacs Tutorial.

The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
(".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
in the respective language.

After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
names of the people who have checked it.

SECTION                  READERS
----------------------------------
etc/TUTORIAL             rms
etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.cn
etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
etc/TUTORIAL.ja		 Kenichi Handa <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.ko
etc/TUTORIAL.nl		 Lute Kamstra
etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
etc/TUTORIAL.ro
etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.zh


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