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1 | Tasks needed before the next release. |
2 | ||
c8de0427 | 3 | * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE |
1f912e99 | 4 | |
10a99e0d GM |
5 | ** Manuals |
6 | Check cross-references between the manuals (eg from emacs to elisp) | |
332eb5f1 GM |
7 | are correct. You can use something like the following in the info |
8 | directory in the Emacs build tree: | |
9 | ||
bcc65704 | 10 | emacs -Q --eval "(progn (require 'info) (setq Info-directory-list '(\".\")))" \ |
332eb5f1 | 11 | -f info-xref-check-all |
10a99e0d | 12 | |
7e3a3bb3 GM |
13 | Setting Info-directory-list avoids having system info pages confuse |
14 | things. References to external manuals will be flagged as | |
15 | uncheckable. You should still check these, and also that each | |
16 | external manual has an appropriate redirect in the file manual/.htaccess | |
17 | in the web pages repository. E.g.: | |
18 | Redirect /software/emacs/manual/html_mono/automake.html /software/automake/manual/automake.html | |
19 | Redirect /software/emacs/manual/html_node/automake/ /software/automake/manual/html_node/ | |
20 | ||
8b09455e GM |
21 | Another tool you can use to check links is gnu.org's linc.py: |
22 | http://www.gnu.org/server/source/ | |
23 | ||
24 | You run this something like: | |
25 | ||
26 | cd /path/to/cvs/emacs-www | |
27 | linc.py -o /path/to/output-dir --url http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ . | |
28 | ||
29 | Be warned that it is really, really slow (as in, can take ~ a full day | |
30 | to check the manual/ directory). It is probably best to run it on a | |
31 | single directory at a time from eg manual/html_node. It is very | |
32 | inefficient, but may reveal a few things that info-xref does not. | |
33 | ||
34 | ||
10a99e0d GM |
35 | make emacs.dvi, elisp.dvi, and deal with any errors (undefined |
36 | references etc) in the output. Break any overfull lines. | |
37 | Underfull hboxes are not serious, but it can be nice to get rid of | |
38 | them if a simple rephrasing or rearrangement will work. | |
39 | ||
40 | Update the master menu and detailed menu (eg the antinews version). | |
41 | The command texinfo-multiple-files-update can do this, but you | |
42 | probably want to apply the results selectively (eg the current master | |
43 | menu has better line-breaks than the automatic version). It includes | |
44 | the menu-entry name (if there is one) as well as the node name - using | |
45 | only the latter looks better. Also, it doesn't seem to handle nested | |
46 | includes, so will miss edebug.texi etc. | |
47 | ||
64adbcf6 GM |
48 | Check for widow and orphan lines in the printed manual; make sure all |
49 | the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. Orphans/widows | |
50 | are cases where the first/last line of a paragraph is on its own at | |
51 | the end/start of a page, or where the last word in a paragraph is on | |
52 | its own at the start of a line. It looks better if you reword/respace | |
53 | things to avoid these. (AFAIK, there is no way to find these except | |
54 | paging through the whole manual.) This should be the very last thing | |
55 | you do, since any change can alter the layout. | |
e2866686 GM |
56 | (Actually, there is probably little point in trying to do this. |
57 | It's only really relevant if printed versions of the manuals are going | |
58 | to be published. End-users are not likely to print out all 1000+ | |
59 | pages of the manuals, and even if they do, the resulting page breaks | |
60 | depend on what paper and font size they use. This also means that if | |
61 | you _are_ going to do this, it should be done with the paper and font | |
62 | size that the GNU Press are going to use when they print the manuals. | |
63 | I think this is different to what you get if you just use eg `make | |
64 | emacs.pdf' (e.g., enable "smallbook"). | |
059cbcd5 | 65 | |
6ad032d2 GM |
66 | ** Check the keybindings in the refcards are correct, and add any new ones. |
67 | Regenerate the pdf versions in etc/refcards/. | |
68 | What paper size are the English versions supposed to be on? | |
accc7588 GM |
69 | On Debian testing, the packages texlive-lang-czechslovak and |
70 | texlive-lang-polish will let you generate the cs-* and sk-* pdfs. | |
a017d05f | 71 | (You may need texlive-lang-cyrillic, texlive-lang-german for others.) |
accc7588 GM |
72 | The Makefile rules did not work for me, I had to use something like: |
73 | csplain -output-format=pdf cs-refcard | |
f199f76c | 74 | |
b713c813 RS |
75 | ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them. |
76 | ||
590394eb | 77 | Emacs 22 translators: |
49561a36 RS |
78 | |
79 | LANG Translator Status | |
590394eb GM |
80 | cs Pavel Janík |
81 | de Sven Joachim | |
82 | fr Eric Jacoboni | |
83 | pl Włodek Bzyl | |
84 | pt-br Rodrigo Real | |
85 | ru Alex Ott | |
86 | sk Miroslav Vaško | |
49561a36 | 87 | |
5db6195f GM |
88 | ** For a major release, add a "New in Emacs XX" section to faq.texi. |
89 | ||
0fd352a5 GM |
90 | ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS. |
91 | ||
92 | ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together. | |
93 | ||
10a99e0d GM |
94 | ** Consider bumping customize-changed-options-previous-release. |
95 | ||
8cee47b8 | 96 | ** cusver-check from admin.el can help find new defcustoms missing |
5db6195f GM |
97 | :version tags. |
98 | ||
f9de7738 RS |
99 | * BUGS |
100 | ||
caf857eb JL |
101 | ** Check for modes which bind M-s that conflicts with a new global binding M-s |
102 | and change key bindings where necessary. The current list of modes: | |
103 | ||
104 | 1. Gnus binds `M-s' to `gnus-summary-search-article-forward'. | |
105 | ||
106 | 2. Minibuffer binds `M-s' to `next-matching-history-element' | |
107 | (not useful any more since C-s can now search in the history). | |
108 | ||
1f9689eb | 109 | 3. `center-line' in Text mode was already moved to the text formatting |
caf857eb JL |
110 | keymap as `M-o M-s' (thus this binding is not necessary any more |
111 | in `nroff-mode-map' too and can be removed now from the nroff mode | |
112 | because it can now use the global key binding `M-o M-s' `center-line'). | |
113 | ||
1f9689eb | 114 | 4. PCL-CVS binds `M-s' to `cvs-status', and log-edit-mode binds it to |
caf857eb JL |
115 | `log-edit-comment-search-forward'. Perhaps search commands |
116 | on the global key binding `M-s' are useless in these modes. | |
117 | ||
8f4fb15f GM |
118 | 5. Rmail binds `\es' to `rmail-search'/`rmail-summary-search'. |
119 | ||
120 | ||
3026f1b4 | 121 | * DOCUMENTATION |
58340fa7 | 122 | |
0b048d52 MT |
123 | ** Check the Emacs Tutorial. |
124 | ||
29121f81 RS |
125 | The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a |
126 | period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective | |
41999d0f GM |
127 | language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", |
128 | likewise in the respective language. | |
b75122e4 RS |
129 | |
130 | After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the | |
131 | names of the people who have checked it. | |
132 | ||
0b048d52 MT |
133 | SECTION READERS |
134 | ---------------------------------- | |
107ddb97 | 135 | TUTORIAL cyd |
7a22e700 | 136 | TUTORIAL.bg ogi |
fd99fde6 GM |
137 | TUTORIAL.cn |
138 | TUTORIAL.cs | |
7a22e700 | 139 | TUTORIAL.de wl |
fd99fde6 GM |
140 | TUTORIAL.eo |
141 | TUTORIAL.es | |
142 | TUTORIAL.fr | |
0dc18ae0 | 143 | TUTORIAL.he eliz |
fd99fde6 GM |
144 | TUTORIAL.it |
145 | TUTORIAL.ja | |
146 | TUTORIAL.ko | |
735cc5ca | 147 | TUTORIAL.nl Pieter Schoenmakers |
fd99fde6 GM |
148 | TUTORIAL.pl |
149 | TUTORIAL.pt_BR | |
150 | TUTORIAL.ro | |
5eb7536f | 151 | TUTORIAL.ru Alex Ott |
fd99fde6 | 152 | TUTORIAL.sk |
6d0bd9ba | 153 | TUTORIAL.sl Primoz PETERLIN |
21f50183 | 154 | TUTORIAL.sv Mats Lidell |
fd99fde6 GM |
155 | TUTORIAL.th |
156 | TUTORIAL.zh | |
0b048d52 | 157 | |
01c29e98 CY |
158 | ** Check the manual. |
159 | ||
c40a7de7 | 160 | abbrevs.texi cyd |
41f1e868 | 161 | ack.texi rgm |
0b21c100 | 162 | anti.texi cyd |
bfd779dd | 163 | arevert-xtra.texi cyd |
21100e7d | 164 | basic.texi cyd |
da97a9e6 | 165 | buffers.texi cyd |
bc859d5f | 166 | building.texi cyd |
112d1241 | 167 | calendar.texi rgm |
a5987767 | 168 | cal-xtra.texi rgm |
a73a3461 | 169 | cmdargs.texi cyd |
de0bde62 | 170 | commands.texi cyd |
89bd9ccd | 171 | custom.texi cyd |
c40a7de7 | 172 | dired.texi cyd |
3b19a30d | 173 | dired-xtra.texi rgm |
939db9ac | 174 | display.texi cyd |
2d2f6581 | 175 | emacs.texi rgm |
2e03845d | 176 | emacs-xtra.texi rgm |
68af8d4f | 177 | emerge-xtra.texi rgm |
de0bde62 | 178 | entering.texi cyd |
bfd779dd | 179 | files.texi cyd |
06848b82 | 180 | fixit.texi cyd |
d400b295 | 181 | fortran-xtra.texi rgm |
dc95a8b0 | 182 | frames.texi cyd |
a0706406 | 183 | glossary.texi rgm |
21100e7d | 184 | help.texi cyd |
6d262977 | 185 | indent.texi cyd |
21100e7d | 186 | killing.texi cyd |
bfd779dd | 187 | kmacro.texi cyd |
40ace058 | 188 | macos.texi rgm (can't actually test any of it though) |
3d992aa0 | 189 | maintaining.texi cyd |
21100e7d | 190 | mark.texi cyd |
49fe4321 | 191 | mini.texi rgm |
88c5c7c8 | 192 | misc.texi cyd |
dc95a8b0 | 193 | modes.texi cyd |
8f4042d2 | 194 | msdog.texi rgm (can't actually test any of it though) |
371fb833 | 195 | msdog-xtra.texi rgm (can't actually test any of it though) |
05806f43 | 196 | mule.texi rgm (not 100% sure about "Fontsets") |
21100e7d | 197 | m-x.texi cyd |
b0d7d8af | 198 | package.texi cyd |
5f8dc2ca | 199 | picture-xtra.texi rgm |
bc859d5f | 200 | programs.texi cyd |
21100e7d | 201 | regs.texi cyd |
b474519e | 202 | rmail.texi rgm |
de0bde62 | 203 | screen.texi cyd |
5abc31ef | 204 | search.texi cyd |
b30941db | 205 | sending.texi cyd |
bc859d5f | 206 | text.texi cyd |
c61ab18c | 207 | trouble.texi cyd |
3d992aa0 CY |
208 | vc-xtra.texi cyd |
209 | vc1-xtra.texi cyd | |
dc95a8b0 | 210 | windows.texi cyd |
06848b82 | 211 | xresources.texi cyd |
01c29e98 CY |
212 | |
213 | ** Check the Lisp manual. | |
214 | ||
ea16568d | 215 | abbrevs.texi rgm |
25dec365 | 216 | advice.texi cyd |
764a3017 | 217 | anti.texi rgm |
0b021094 | 218 | back.texi rgm |
d268b4fe | 219 | backups.texi cyd |
431ee44b | 220 | buffers.texi cyd |
faccede1 | 221 | commands.texi cyd |
25dec365 | 222 | compile.texi cyd |
31cbea1d | 223 | control.texi cyd |
e1161b06 | 224 | customize.texi cyd |
faccede1 | 225 | debugging.texi cyd |
5319014e | 226 | display.texi cyd |
0b021094 | 227 | edebug.texi rgm |
01c29e98 | 228 | elisp.texi |
7e05b1ec | 229 | errors.texi rgm |
31cbea1d | 230 | eval.texi cyd |
a59225b1 | 231 | files.texi cyd |
a08a07e3 | 232 | frames.texi cyd |
735cc5ca | 233 | functions.texi cyd |
31cbea1d | 234 | hash.texi cyd |
8376d7c2 | 235 | help.texi cyd |
2064cc6a | 236 | hooks.texi rgm |
01c29e98 | 237 | index.texi |
d15aac68 | 238 | internals.texi rgm cyd |
6d0bd9ba | 239 | intro.texi cyd |
3d8badf4 | 240 | keymaps.texi cyd |
31cbea1d | 241 | lists.texi cyd |
6c1e4b46 | 242 | loading.texi cyd |
03988c98 | 243 | macros.texi cyd |
53a1239b | 244 | maps.texi rgm |
3266b56f | 245 | markers.texi rgm |
5db6195f | 246 | minibuf.texi rgm |
8376d7c2 | 247 | modes.texi cyd |
83ef8187 | 248 | nonascii.texi cyd |
31cbea1d | 249 | numbers.texi cyd |
7a22e700 | 250 | objects.texi cyd |
d15aac68 | 251 | os.texi cyd |
763d4948 | 252 | package.texi rgm |
ef959d3a | 253 | positions.texi cyd |
4373fd43 | 254 | processes.texi rgm |
fee88ca0 | 255 | searching.texi rgm |
31cbea1d | 256 | sequences.texi cyd |
faccede1 | 257 | streams.texi cyd |
31cbea1d CY |
258 | strings.texi cyd |
259 | symbols.texi cyd | |
4230351b | 260 | syntax.texi cyd |
83ef8187 | 261 | text.texi cyd |
b3134b95 | 262 | tips.texi rgm |
735cc5ca | 263 | variables.texi cyd |
09ebefe1 | 264 | windows.texi rgm (skimmed) |
01c29e98 | 265 | |
c0a070c1 KS |
266 | \f |
267 | Local variables: | |
268 | mode: outline | |
49561a36 | 269 | coding: utf-8 |
c0a070c1 | 270 | end: |