| 1 | Tasks needed before the next release. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals; |
| 6 | make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | ** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Emacs 22 translators: |
| 13 | |
| 14 | LANG Translator Status |
| 15 | cs Pavel Janík |
| 16 | de Sven Joachim |
| 17 | fr Eric Jacoboni |
| 18 | pl Włodek Bzyl |
| 19 | pt-br Rodrigo Real |
| 20 | ru Alex Ott |
| 21 | sk Miroslav Vaško |
| 22 | |
| 23 | ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS |
| 28 | |
| 29 | These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the |
| 30 | attention of Windows users to fixing them. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind |
| 33 | Verify that the new font backend eliminates this and other Cleartype related |
| 34 | problems. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin. |
| 37 | (Did we decide that is unreproducible?) |
| 38 | |
| 39 | * BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT |
| 40 | |
| 41 | ** raman@users.sf.net, sep 7: Emacs 23.0.50: Segfaults in alloc.c (batch process) |
| 42 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00690.html |
| 43 | |
| 44 | ** undefined reference getopt_long |
| 45 | Report by Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> on bug-gnu-emacs |
| 46 | from 2007-08-27. Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as |
| 47 | of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this. |
| 48 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html |
| 49 | |
| 50 | ** emacs-22.1 with GTK problems (with patches) |
| 51 | Only outstanding issue seems to be whether Solaris 2.6 GTK can be |
| 52 | supported in the absence of recursive mutexes, via a change to |
| 53 | alloc.c, or whether configure should abort. |
| 54 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00055.html |
| 55 | |
| 56 | * BUGS |
| 57 | |
| 58 | ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code? If so, can we get rid of that? |
| 59 | It is a dangerous design. |
| 60 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html |
| 61 | |
| 62 | ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c? |
| 63 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html |
| 64 | |
| 65 | ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode. |
| 66 | "can't turn off font-lock" |
| 67 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00548.html |
| 68 | |
| 69 | ** mah@everybody.org, Sep 18: erc causes emacs to hang with multi-tty |
| 70 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01765.html |
| 71 | |
| 72 | ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty |
| 73 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00094.html |
| 74 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01816.html |
| 75 | |
| 76 | ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop. |
| 77 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01720.html |
| 78 | |
| 79 | ** herring@lanl.gov: find-func: can no longer find adviced subrs |
| 80 | This ought to work. |
| 81 | |
| 82 | ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries |
| 83 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00209.html |
| 84 | |
| 85 | ** menu indications of key bindings for remapped commands |
| 86 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html |
| 87 | |
| 88 | ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake. Those features should not |
| 89 | be part of Gnus. They should be moved to some other part of Emacs. |
| 90 | rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been |
| 91 | minimized. I don't know what is left to do here. |
| 92 | |
| 93 | ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect |
| 94 | |
| 95 | ** timh@insightful.com, 9 Nov: X-coding-system incompatibility, and workaround |
| 96 | |
| 97 | ** multi-tty does not work correctly. |
| 98 | If the server is started from a tty frame and emacsclient creates an |
| 99 | X11 frame, the tty frame gets confused, it thinks it is an X11 frame |
| 100 | when trying to do a C-z. This worked with server.el version 1.136, it |
| 101 | broke after that. |
| 102 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-12/msg00545.html |
| 103 | Also emacsclient does not work on Windows, it also worked with |
| 104 | server.el version 1.136. |
| 105 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00710.html |
| 106 | |
| 107 | ** diff mode change for missing spaces in -u format. |
| 108 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-11/msg01990.html |
| 109 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01114.html |
| 110 | |
| 111 | ** skeleton bug? Or is it now working as documented? |
| 112 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01335.html |
| 113 | |
| 114 | ** move verilog-mode.el compile patterns into compile.el? |
| 115 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00234.html |
| 116 | |
| 117 | |
| 118 | ** unicode-merge issues: |
| 119 | |
| 120 | ** The data segment size increased after the unicode-2 merge. |
| 121 | The "data" size increased for emacs from ~4MB to ~11MB on x86. |
| 122 | The temacs sizes are comparable. |
| 123 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00951.html |
| 124 | |
| 125 | ** ps-prin1.ps: "Handle multiple strings in a line" |
| 126 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00079.html |
| 127 | Change lost? |
| 128 | |
| 129 | ** ucs-mule-8859-to-mule-unicode |
| 130 | This has been removed (together with ucs-tables.el), but |
| 131 | latin1-disp.el still uses it. |
| 132 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00066.html |
| 133 | |
| 134 | ** auto-compose-current-font |
| 135 | This has been removed, but is still used in |
| 136 | devan-util.el, mlm-util.el, tibet-util.el, tml-util.el |
| 137 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00064.html |
| 138 | |
| 139 | ** cp-supported-codepages |
| 140 | This has been removed (together with most of codepage.el), but is |
| 141 | still used by mm-codepage-setup in gnus/mm-util. There is no NEWS |
| 142 | entry about this removal. |
| 143 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00063.html |
| 144 | |
| 145 | * DOCUMENTATION |
| 146 | |
| 147 | ** Document multi-tty features |
| 148 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html |
| 149 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html |
| 150 | |
| 151 | ** Document new font backend |
| 152 | |
| 153 | ** Document XEmbed support |
| 154 | |
| 155 | ** Check the Emacs Tutorial. |
| 156 | |
| 157 | The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a |
| 158 | period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective |
| 159 | language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", |
| 160 | likewise in the respective language. |
| 161 | |
| 162 | After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the |
| 163 | names of the people who have checked it. |
| 164 | |
| 165 | SECTION READERS |
| 166 | ---------------------------------- |
| 167 | etc/TUTORIAL |
| 168 | etc/TUTORIAL.bg |
| 169 | etc/TUTORIAL.cn |
| 170 | etc/TUTORIAL.cs |
| 171 | etc/TUTORIAL.de |
| 172 | etc/TUTORIAL.eo |
| 173 | etc/TUTORIAL.es |
| 174 | etc/TUTORIAL.fr |
| 175 | etc/TUTORIAL.it |
| 176 | etc/TUTORIAL.ja |
| 177 | etc/TUTORIAL.ko |
| 178 | etc/TUTORIAL.nl |
| 179 | etc/TUTORIAL.pl |
| 180 | etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR |
| 181 | etc/TUTORIAL.ro |
| 182 | etc/TUTORIAL.ru |
| 183 | etc/TUTORIAL.sk |
| 184 | etc/TUTORIAL.sl |
| 185 | etc/TUTORIAL.sv |
| 186 | etc/TUTORIAL.th |
| 187 | etc/TUTORIAL.zh |
| 188 | |
| 189 | \f |
| 190 | Local variables: |
| 191 | mode: outline |
| 192 | coding: utf-8 |
| 193 | end: |