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 ** Spell check the manuals.
  11
  12 ** Get rid of overfull and underfull boxes in manuals.
  13
  14 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
  15 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
  16
  17 ** Update facemenu-unlisted-faces, adding whatever other
  18 face name prefixes should be in it for good results.
  19
  20 ** Update AUTHORS.
  21
  22 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  23
  24 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  25
  26 ** Check what should be deleted or updated in MORE.STUFF.
  27
  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.
  30
  31 ** Ensure MH-E 8.0 has been released.
  32 Assigned to Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>.
  33
  34 * NEW FEATURES
  35
  36 * BUGS
  37
  38 ** Reiner Steib's 23 Jan 2006 bug report that tool bar icons don't update.
  39
  40 ** Ralf Angeli's 4 Jul 2005 bug report about scroll-preserve-screen-position.
  41
  42 ** Martin Rudalics' 30 Jan 2006 bug report about overlays at end of buffer.
  43
  44 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  45
  46 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  47 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  48 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  49 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
  50
  51 In its current form, it sys_select says the socket is ready, so we
  52 call server_accept_connection which again calls accept() which returns
  53 -1 with errno == WSAEWOULDBLOCK (10035) indicating that there is no
  54 pending connection to accept.
  55
  56 It seems that to fix this, w32 server sockets must use WSAAsyncSelect
  57 + FD_ACCEPT to request notifications of incoming connections...
  58
  59
  60 * DOCUMENTATION
  61
  62 ** Add a node to the Lisp manual describing key sequences from the
  63 Lisp point of view.
  64
  65 ** Check man/info.texi.
  66
  67 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
  68
  69 Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
  70 you're going to handle.
  71
  72 DIRECTORY               STATUS          IN CHARGE
  73 ---------               ------          ---------
  74 etc (and subdirs)       done            Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org))
  75 leim                    working         Kenichi Handa
  76 lib-src                 done            ttn
  77 lisp                    done            ttn
  78 lisp/calc               done            Jay Belanger
  79 lisp/calendar           done            Glenn Morris
  80 lisp/emacs-lisp         done            ttn
  81 lisp/emulation          done            ttn
  82 lisp/eshell             done            ttn
  83 lisp/gnus               done            Romain Francoise
  84 lisp/international      working         Kenichi Handa
  85 lisp/language           working         Kenichi Handa
  86 lisp/mail               done            ttn
  87 lisp/mh-e               done            Bill Wohler
  88 lisp/net                done            ttn
  89 lisp/obsolete           done            ttn
  90 lisp/play               done            Romain Francoise
  91 lisp/progmodes          done            Nick Roberts
  92 lisp/term               done            ttn
  93 lisp/textmodes          done            ttn
  94 lisp/url                done            ttn
  95 lispintro               done            ttn
  96 lispref                 done            ttn
  97 lwlib                   done            ttn
  98 m4                      done            ttn
  99 mac (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 100 man                     done            ttn
 101 msdos                   done            ttn
 102 nt (and subdirs)        done            ttn
 103 oldXMenu                done            ttn
 104 src (and subdirs)       done            ttn
 105 vms                     done            ttn
 106
 107 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 108
 109 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 110 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 111 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 112 people who have checked it.
 113
 114 SECTION             READERS
 115 -----------------------------
 116 man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
 117 man/anti.texi       Chong Yidong
 118 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 119 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 120 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 121 man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 122 man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 123 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 124 man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
 125 man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
 126 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 127 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
 128 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 129 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 130 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 131 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 132 man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
 133 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 134 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 135 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 136 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 137 man/macos.texi      Chong Yidong
 138 man/maintaining.texi Chong Yidong
 139 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 140 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 141 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 142 man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
 143 man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
 144 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
 145 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
 146 man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
 147 man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
 148 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 149 man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 150 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 151 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 152 man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 153 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 154 man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
 155 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 156 man/xresources.texi
 157
 158 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 159
 160 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 161 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 162 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 163 people who have checked it.
 164
 165 SECTION                  READERS
 166 ----------------------------------
 167 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 168 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
 169 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
 170 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 171 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 172 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 173 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 174 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 175 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 176 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 177 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 178 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 179 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 180 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
 181 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 182 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 183 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 184 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 185 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 186 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 187 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 188 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
 189 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 190 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 191 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 192 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 193 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 194 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 195 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 196 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 197 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 198 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 199 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 200 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 201 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 202 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 203 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 204 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 205 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 206 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 207 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 208 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 209 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 210 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 211 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 212 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 213 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 214 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 215 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 216
 217 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 218
 219 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 220 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 221 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 222 in the respective language.
 223
 224 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 225 names of the people who have checked it.
 226
 227 SECTION                  READERS
 228 ----------------------------------
 229 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 230 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 231 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 232 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 233 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 234 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 235 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 236 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 237 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 238 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 239 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 240 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 241 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 242 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 243 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 244 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 245 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 246 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 247 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 248 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 249
 250 \f
 251 Local variables:
 252 mode: outline
 253 end: