admin/FOR-RELEASE

   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 * BUGS
  51
  52 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code?  If so, can we get rid of that?
  53 It is a dangerous design.
  54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
  55
  56 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
  57 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
  58
  59 ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode.
  60 "can't turn off font-lock"
  61 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00548.html
  62
  63 ** mah@everybody.org, Sep 18: erc causes emacs to hang with multi-tty
  64 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01765.html
  65
  66 ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty
  67 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00094.html
  68 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01816.html
  69
  70 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop.
  71 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01720.html
  72
  73 ** herring@lanl.gov: find-func: can no longer find adviced subrs
  74 This ought to work.
  75
  76 ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries
  77 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00209.html
  78
  79 ** menu indications of key bindings for remapped commands
  80 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html
  81
  82 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake.  Those features should not
  83 be part of Gnus.  They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
  84 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
  85 minimized.  I don't know what is left to do here.
  86
  87 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
  88
  89 ** timh@insightful.com, 9 Nov: X-coding-system incompatibility, and workaround
  90
  91 ** multi-tty does not work correctly.
  92 If the server is started from a tty frame and emacsclient creates an
  93 X11 frame, the tty frame gets confused, it thinks it is an X11 frame
  94 when trying to do a C-z.  This worked with server.el version 1.136, it
  95 broke after that.
  96 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-12/msg00545.html
  97 Also emacsclient does not work on Windows, it also worked with
  98 server.el version 1.136.
  99 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00710.html
 100
 101 ** skeleton bug? Or is it now working as documented?
 102 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01335.html
 103
 104 ** move verilog-mode.el compile patterns into compile.el?
 105 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00234.html
 106
 107 ** stack-trace-on-error segfaults infloop
 108 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg02031.html
 109
 110 ** han@mijncomputer.nl, Feb 3: emacsclient misbehaves
 111
 112 ** Mouse clicks on the menubar don't currently work with a console
 113 Following the direct use of Gpm, the menubar now needs to be
 114 considered a special part of the screen in Emacs on a console.
 115 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00277.html
 116
 117 ** unicode-merge issues:
 118
 119 *** The data segment size increased after the unicode-2 merge.
 120 The "data" size increased for emacs from ~4MB to ~11MB on x86.
 121 The temacs sizes are comparable.
 122 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00951.html
 123
 124
 125 * DOCUMENTATION
 126
 127 ** Document multi-tty features
 128 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html
 129 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html
 130
 131 ** Document new font backend
 132
 133 ** Document XEmbed support
 134
 135 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 136
 137 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
 138 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
 139 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
 140 likewise in the respective language.
 141
 142 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 143 names of the people who have checked it.
 144
 145 SECTION                  READERS
 146 ----------------------------------
 147 etc/TUTORIAL
 148 etc/TUTORIAL.bg
 149 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 150 etc/TUTORIAL.cs
 151 etc/TUTORIAL.de
 152 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
 153 etc/TUTORIAL.es
 154 etc/TUTORIAL.fr
 155 etc/TUTORIAL.it
 156 etc/TUTORIAL.ja
 157 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 158 etc/TUTORIAL.nl
 159 etc/TUTORIAL.pl
 160 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 161 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 162 etc/TUTORIAL.ru
 163 etc/TUTORIAL.sk
 164 etc/TUTORIAL.sl
 165 etc/TUTORIAL.sv
 166 etc/TUTORIAL.th
 167 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 168
 169 \f
 170 Local variables:
 171 mode: outline
 172 coding: utf-8
 173 end: