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| author | Henrik Enberg <henrik.enberg@telia.com> |
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| date | Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:03:54 +0000 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/admin/FOR-RELEASE Mon Jan 16 00:03:54 2006 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,255 @@ +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. + +** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME +and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons. + +** Ensure MH-E 8.0 has been released. +Assigned to Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>. + +* NEW FEATURES + +** 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 + +** Ronan Keryell's Sep 23 bug about "tramp sudo:: and version control on RCS" + +** 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. + +* DOCUMENTATION + +** Add a node to the Lisp manual describing key sequences from the +Lisp point of view. + +** Check 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 done Kenichi Handa +lib-src done ttn +lisp done ttn +lisp/calc done ttn +lisp/calendar done 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" <tzz@lifelogs.com> +man/calendar.texi joakim@verona.se Chong Yidong +man/cmdargs.texi Chong Yidong "Luc Teirlinck" +man/commands.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +man/custom.texi Chong Yidong "Luc Teirlinck" +man/dired.texi Chong Yidong joakim@verona.se +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 Chong Yidong +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 <joakim@verona.se> 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 joakim@verona.se 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 <joakim@verona.se> 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 "Luc Teirlinck" +lispref/debugging.texi Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se> 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 <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> +etc/TUTORIAL.cn +etc/TUTORIAL.cs Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz> +etc/TUTORIAL.de Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> +etc/TUTORIAL.es Marcelo Toledo +etc/TUTORIAL.fr ttn +etc/TUTORIAL.it ttn +etc/TUTORIAL.ja Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> +etc/TUTORIAL.ko +etc/TUTORIAL.nl Lute Kamstra +etc/TUTORIAL.pl Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se> +etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR Marcelo Toledo +etc/TUTORIAL.ro +etc/TUTORIAL.ru Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com> +etc/TUTORIAL.sk Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz> +etc/TUTORIAL.sl Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si> +etc/TUTORIAL.sv Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se> +etc/TUTORIAL.th Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org> +etc/TUTORIAL.zh + + +Local variables: +mode: outline +end: