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author Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
date Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:22:37 +0000
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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.

** 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 AUTHORS.

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

** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.

Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).

LANG	Translator            Status
cs	Pavel Janík           No response
de	Sven Joachim          Done
fr	Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
pl	Włodek Bzyl           Done
pt-br	Rodrigo Real          Done
ru	Alex Ott              Working
sk	Miroslav Vaško        No response

Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.

** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.

* BUGS

** Stephen.Berman@gmx.net: isearch-yank-line and field text property

** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
.emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
	(setq-default truncate-lines t)
	(custom-set-variables
	 '(hscroll-margin 20)
	 '(hscroll-step 1)
	)

** 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.

In its current form, it sys_select says the socket is ready, so we
call server_accept_connection which again calls accept() which returns
-1 with errno == WSAEWOULDBLOCK (10035) indicating that there is no
pending connection to accept.

It seems that to fix this, w32 server sockets must use WSAAsyncSelect
+ FD_ACCEPT to request notifications of incoming connections...


* DOCUMENTATION

** Delete all @tindex commands from the Emacs Lisp Manual.

** 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      Jason Rumney
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      Nick Roberts
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


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