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 * BUGS
  28
  29 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code?  If so, can we get rid of that?
  30 It is a dangerous design.
  31 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
  32
  33 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
  34 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
  35
  36 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake.  Those features should not
  37 be part of Gnus.  They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
  38 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
  39 minimized.  I don't know what is left to do here.
  40
  41 ** Check for modes which bind M-s that conflicts with a new global binding M-s
  42 and change key bindings where necessary.  The current list of modes:
  43
  44 1. Gnus binds `M-s' to `gnus-summary-search-article-forward'.
  45
  46 2. Minibuffer binds `M-s' to `next-matching-history-element'
  47    (not useful any more since C-s can now search in the history).
  48
  49 3. Shell mode binds `M-s' to `comint-next-matching-input'.
  50    This key binding can be changed later when we will implement
  51    incremental search through the shell history.
  52
  53 4. `center-line' in Text mode was already moved to the text formatting
  54    keymap as `M-o M-s' (thus this binding is not necessary any more
  55    in `nroff-mode-map' too and can be removed now from the nroff mode
  56    because it can now use the global key binding `M-o M-s' `center-line').
  57
  58 5. PCL-CVS binds `M-s' to `cvs-status', and log-edit-mode binds it to
  59    `log-edit-comment-search-forward'.  Perhaps search commands
  60    on the global key binding `M-s' are useless in these modes.
  61
  62 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
  63 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg02091.html
  64
  65 Fixed by this change?
  66
  67 2007-11-09  Vinicius Jose Latorre  <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
  68
  69         * ps-print.el: [...]
  70         (ps-do-despool): If ps-lpr-switches is not a list, force it to be one.
  71
  72 ** In C, use EMACS_INT for variables and structure members
  73 for buffer/string positions.  E.g. struct it, struct text_pos.
  74
  75 ** These lisp files refer to rmail, and might need updating post-mbox.
  76
  77 It seems that rmail-output-to-rmail-file can be replaced by rmail-output.
  78
  79 mail/rmail-spam-filter.el:  check it still (?) works
  80
  81 gnus/gnus-art.el
  82 gnus/gnus-util.el
  83 gnus/gnus.el
  84 gnus/message.el
  85 gnus/nnbabyl.el
  86 mail/feedmail.el  ; comments about mail-header-separator still valid?
  87 mail/metamail.el
  88 mail/sendmail.el
  89 mail/undigest.el  ; seems totally dependent (?) on Babyl format, and has
  90                     received zero mbox-branch updates.  Is it not needed now?
  91 mail/unrmail.el   ; rev 1.13.2.4 not synced from mbox branch - should it be?
  92 net/mairix.el     ; fixed?
  93 org/org-rmail.el  ; fixed?
  94
  95 EOOH references:
  96
  97 gnus/gnus-util.el
  98 gnus/nnbabyl.el
  99 gnus/nndoc.el
 100 gnus/nnmail.el
 101 mail/sendmail.el
 102 mail/undigest.el
 103
 104
 105 * DOCUMENTATION
 106
 107 ** Clean up Emacs.app references in code and documentation.
 108
 109 ** Document new font backend
 110
 111 ** Document XEmbed support
 112
 113 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 114
 115 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
 116 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
 117 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
 118 likewise in the respective language.
 119
 120 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 121 names of the people who have checked it.
 122
 123 SECTION                  READERS
 124 ----------------------------------
 125 etc/TUTORIAL
 126 etc/TUTORIAL.bg
 127 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 128 etc/TUTORIAL.cs
 129 etc/TUTORIAL.de
 130 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
 131 etc/TUTORIAL.es
 132 etc/TUTORIAL.fr
 133 etc/TUTORIAL.it
 134 etc/TUTORIAL.ja
 135 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 136 etc/TUTORIAL.nl
 137 etc/TUTORIAL.pl
 138 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 139 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 140 etc/TUTORIAL.ru
 141 etc/TUTORIAL.sk
 142 etc/TUTORIAL.sl
 143 etc/TUTORIAL.sv
 144 etc/TUTORIAL.th
 145 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 146
 147 ** Check the manual.
 148
 149 abbrevs.texi      -- cyd
 150 ack.texi          -- rgm
 151 anti.texi
 152 arevert-xtra.texi
 153 basic.texi        -- cyd
 154 buffers.texi      -- cyd
 155 building.texi     -- cyd
 156 calendar.texi     -- rgm
 157 cal-xtra.texi     -- rgm
 158 cmdargs.texi      -- cyd
 159 commands.texi     -- cyd
 160 custom.texi       -- cyd
 161 dired.texi        -- cyd
 162 dired-xtra.texi
 163 display.texi      -- cyd
 164 emacs.texi        -- cyd
 165 emacs-xtra.texi
 166 emerge-xtra.texi
 167 entering.texi     -- cyd
 168 files.texi
 169 fixit.texi        -- cyd
 170 fortran-xtra.texi -- rgm
 171 frames.texi       -- cyd
 172 glossary.texi
 173 help.texi
 174 indent.texi       -- cyd
 175 killing.texi      -- cyd
 176 kmacro.texi       -- cyd
 177 macos.texi     -- contents need to be evaluated and see what is still
 178  relevant after the NS merge.
 179 maintaining.texi  -- cyd
 180 major.texi        -- cyd
 181 mark.texi         -- cyd
 182 mini.texi         -- cyd
 183 misc.texi
 184 msdog.texi
 185 msdog-xtra.texi
 186 mule.texi
 187 m-x.texi          -- cyd
 188 programs.texi     -- cyd
 189 regs.texi         -- cyd
 190 rmail.texi
 191 screen.texi       -- cyd
 192 search.texi       -- cyd
 193 sending.texi
 194 text.texi         -- cyd
 195 trouble.texi
 196 windows.texi      -- rudalics
 197 xresources.texi
 198
 199 ** Check the Lisp manual.
 200
 201 abbrevs.texi
 202 advice.texi
 203 anti.texi
 204 back.texi
 205 backups.texi
 206 buffers.texi
 207 commands.texi
 208 compile.texi
 209 control.texi
 210 customize.texi
 211 debugging.texi
 212 display.texi
 213 edebug.texi
 214 elisp.texi
 215 errors.texi
 216 eval.texi
 217 files.texi
 218 frames.texi
 219 functions.texi
 220 hash.texi
 221 help.texi
 222 hooks.texi
 223 index.texi
 224 internals.texi
 225 intro.texi
 226 keymaps.texi
 227 lists.texi
 228 loading.texi
 229 locals.texi
 230 macros.texi
 231 maps.texi
 232 markers.texi
 233 minibuf.texi
 234 modes.texi
 235 nonascii.texi
 236 numbers.texi
 237 objects.texi
 238 os.texi
 239 positions.texi
 240 processes.texi
 241 searching.texi
 242 sequences.texi
 243 streams.texi
 244 strings.texi
 245 symbols.texi
 246 syntax.texi
 247 text.texi
 248 tips.texi
 249 variables.texi
 250 windows.texi
 251
 252 * PLANNED ADDITIONS
 253
 254 ** CEDET (not for 23.1 due to paperwork issues, perhaps for 23.2)
 255 ** js2-mode
 256 ** pov-mode (probably not for Emacs-23: waiting for a Free POV-Ray).
 257 ** gas-mode ?
 258
 259 \f
 260 Local variables:
 261 mode: outline
 262 coding: utf-8
 263 end: