Update years in copyright notice; nfc.

[bpt/emacs.git] / admin / FOR-RELEASE

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

** Make VC-over-Tramp work where possible, or at least fail
gracefully if something isn't supported over Tramp.
To be done by Andre Spiegel <spiegel@gnu.org>.

** Update Speedbar.

** Update vhdl-mode.el based on changes in
   http://opensource.ethz.ch/emacs/vhdl-mode.html.

** Debug custom themes.

* FATAL ERRORS

** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.

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

** Emacs on Windows crashes reading JPEG images from files.

The problem is caused by the Emacs executable and the image library
having multiple, incompatible copies of the run-time code, which can
happen when mixing a MSVC build of Emacs with a MinGW build of the
jpeg library (or the other way around).  The fix is straightforward
and has already been posted on the developers' list, but it is on the
back burner waiting for a legal comment or an alternate implementation
(around 30 lines of code).

* BUGS

** Fix those modes that still use compile-internal, to not use it.

** Fix recognition of shell's `dirs' command.

Is his change right?

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:21:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: kevin.gal@verizon.net

When I use tcsh (which echoes command input) in a shell buffer,
entering "M-x dirs" fails because it mistakens the echoed "dirs"
string as the directory string to use as input when changing the
buffers default directory.  The attached gziped patch file contains a
fix.  The patch also binds the "dirs" command to "\e\C-m" in
shell-mode-map (previously unbound) to make it easy to invoke.
Finally, a test has been added to see if "shell-dirstack-query" is
non-nil.  If so, it is not overwritten.

To enable the fix, the user must set comint-process-echoes to t.

** 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.

** Bug in ebrowse

Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:35:48 +0200
From: Markus Gritsch <gritsch@iue.tuwien.ac.at>

the C++ header file which led to the problematic BROWSE file reads

namespace test {
     class Base
     {
     };

     class B : public Base
     {
     };
}

class A : public test::Base
{
};

The *Tree* is then displayed as

   *Globals*
   test
   test::Base
     test::B

The class A seems to be missing.

* DOCUMENTATION

** Document Custom Themes.

** Update man/info.texi.

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

Policy document admin/notes/years must be updated before
making further progress on this task!!!

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

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

** 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
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
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
man/maintaining.texi
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
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
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"
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
lispref/internals.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/intro.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"
lispref/keymaps.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/lists.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/locals.texi
lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/maps.texi
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	   Thien-Thi Nguyen
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