admin/FOR-RELEASE

   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
   4
   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.
   7
   8 ** Update release dates of manuals.
   9
  10 ** Get rid of overfull and underfull boxes in manuals.
  11
  12 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
  13 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
  14
  15 ** Update facemenu-unlisted-faces, adding whatever other
  16 face name prefixes should be in it for good results.
  17
  18 ** Update AUTHORS.
  19
  20 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  21
  22 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  23
  24 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  25
  26 LANG    Translator            Status
  27 cs      Pavel Janík
  28 de      ? (*)
  29 fr      Eric Jacoboni
  30 pl      Włodek Bzyl
  31 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  32 ru      Alex Ott              Working
  33 sk      Miroslav Vaško
  34
  35 (*) If the assignment of Sven Joachim arrives in time, we can install his
  36 update for de-refcard.tex.
  37
  38 If there's no update for a translation on 2006-06-07, notify RMS.
  39
  40 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  41 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  42
  43 * BUGS
  44
  45 ** We need a way a Lisp file encoded in iso-2022 can assure
  46 reliable decoding regardless of user options.
  47
  48 ** JD Smith's 17 Apr 2006 bug report that CVS operations
  49 get mysterious unreproducible failures.
  50
  51 ** Is there a basic problem with cl-byte-compile-compiler-macro?
  52
  53 ** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
  54 .emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
  55         (setq-default truncate-lines t)
  56         (custom-set-variables
  57          '(hscroll-margin 20)
  58          '(hscroll-step 1)
  59         )
  60
  61 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  62
  63 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  64 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  65 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  66 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
  67
  68 In its current form, it sys_select says the socket is ready, so we
  69 call server_accept_connection which again calls accept() which returns
  70 -1 with errno == WSAEWOULDBLOCK (10035) indicating that there is no
  71 pending connection to accept.
  72
  73 It seems that to fix this, w32 server sockets must use WSAAsyncSelect
  74 + FD_ACCEPT to request notifications of incoming connections...
  75
  76
  77 * DOCUMENTATION
  78
  79 ** Check man/info.texi.
  80
  81 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
  82
  83 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
  84 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
  85 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
  86 people who have checked it.
  87
  88 SECTION                  READERS
  89 ----------------------------------
  90 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  91 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
  92 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
  93 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  94 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  95 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
  96 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  97 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  98 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  99 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 100 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 101 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 102 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 103 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 104 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 105 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 106 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 107 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 108 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 109 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 110 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 111 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
 112 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 113 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 114 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 115 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 116 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 117 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 118 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 119 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 120 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 121 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 122 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 123 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 124 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 125 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 126 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 127 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 128 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 129 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 130 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 131 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 132 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 133 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 134 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 135 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 136 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 137 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 138 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 139
 140 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 141
 142 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 143 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 144 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 145 in the respective language.
 146
 147 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 148 names of the people who have checked it.
 149
 150 SECTION                  READERS
 151 ----------------------------------
 152 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 153 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 154 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 155 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 156 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 157 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 158 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 159 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 160 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 161 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 162 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 163 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 164 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 165 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 166 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 167 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 168 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 169 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 170 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 171 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 172
 173 \f
 174 Local variables:
 175 mode: outline
 176 coding: utf-8
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