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 ** Rmail issues:
  76
  77 mail/rmail-spam-filter.el:  check it still (?) works
  78
  79 Gnus/Rmail issues:
  80
  81 message.el:
  82 Fix message-fcc-handler-function for the case
  83   message-fcc-handler-function = rmail-output
  84 (but is this even a sensible option? It is not the default.)
  85 Ideally, it should behave as gnus-output-to-rmail does:
  86   In Emacs 23, write Babyl only if FILENAME is Babyl, otherwise mbox.
  87     (rmailout can handle this?)
  88   In Emacs 22, write Babyl
  89   In both cases, if an Rmail buffer is visiting FILENAME, update it
  90 It could just use gnus-output-to-rmail, but message.el probably
  91 wants to remain independent from gnus (?).
  92
  93 Gnus manual needs updating with respect to Rmail (but then so does the
  94 Rmail manual).
  95
  96
  97 * DOCUMENTATION
  98
  99 ** Clean up Emacs.app references in code and documentation.
 100
 101 ** Document new font backend
 102
 103 ** Document XEmbed support
 104
 105 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 106
 107 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
 108 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
 109 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
 110 likewise in the respective language.
 111
 112 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 113 names of the people who have checked it.
 114
 115 SECTION                  READERS
 116 ----------------------------------
 117 etc/TUTORIAL
 118 etc/TUTORIAL.bg
 119 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 120 etc/TUTORIAL.cs
 121 etc/TUTORIAL.de
 122 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
 123 etc/TUTORIAL.es
 124 etc/TUTORIAL.fr
 125 etc/TUTORIAL.it
 126 etc/TUTORIAL.ja
 127 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 128 etc/TUTORIAL.nl
 129 etc/TUTORIAL.pl
 130 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 131 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 132 etc/TUTORIAL.ru
 133 etc/TUTORIAL.sk
 134 etc/TUTORIAL.sl
 135 etc/TUTORIAL.sv
 136 etc/TUTORIAL.th
 137 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 138
 139 ** Check the manual.
 140
 141 abbrevs.texi      -- cyd
 142 ack.texi          -- rgm
 143 anti.texi
 144 arevert-xtra.texi
 145 basic.texi        -- cyd
 146 buffers.texi      -- cyd
 147 building.texi     -- cyd
 148 calendar.texi     -- rgm
 149 cal-xtra.texi     -- rgm
 150 cmdargs.texi      -- cyd
 151 commands.texi     -- cyd
 152 custom.texi       -- cyd
 153 dired.texi        -- cyd
 154 dired-xtra.texi
 155 display.texi      -- cyd
 156 emacs.texi        -- cyd
 157 emacs-xtra.texi
 158 emerge-xtra.texi
 159 entering.texi     -- cyd
 160 files.texi
 161 fixit.texi        -- cyd
 162 fortran-xtra.texi -- rgm
 163 frames.texi       -- cyd
 164 glossary.texi
 165 help.texi
 166 indent.texi       -- cyd
 167 killing.texi      -- cyd
 168 kmacro.texi       -- cyd
 169 macos.texi     -- contents need to be evaluated and see what is still
 170  relevant after the NS merge.
 171 maintaining.texi  -- cyd
 172 major.texi        -- cyd
 173 mark.texi         -- cyd
 174 mini.texi         -- cyd
 175 misc.texi
 176 msdog.texi
 177 msdog-xtra.texi
 178 mule.texi
 179 m-x.texi          -- cyd
 180 programs.texi     -- cyd
 181 regs.texi         -- cyd
 182 rmail.texi
 183 screen.texi       -- cyd
 184 search.texi       -- cyd
 185 sending.texi
 186 text.texi         -- cyd
 187 trouble.texi
 188 windows.texi      -- rudalics
 189 xresources.texi
 190
 191 ** Check the Lisp manual.
 192
 193 abbrevs.texi
 194 advice.texi
 195 anti.texi
 196 back.texi
 197 backups.texi
 198 buffers.texi
 199 commands.texi
 200 compile.texi
 201 control.texi
 202 customize.texi
 203 debugging.texi
 204 display.texi
 205 edebug.texi
 206 elisp.texi
 207 errors.texi
 208 eval.texi
 209 files.texi
 210 frames.texi
 211 functions.texi
 212 hash.texi
 213 help.texi
 214 hooks.texi
 215 index.texi
 216 internals.texi
 217 intro.texi
 218 keymaps.texi
 219 lists.texi
 220 loading.texi
 221 locals.texi
 222 macros.texi
 223 maps.texi
 224 markers.texi
 225 minibuf.texi
 226 modes.texi
 227 nonascii.texi
 228 numbers.texi
 229 objects.texi
 230 os.texi
 231 positions.texi
 232 processes.texi
 233 searching.texi
 234 sequences.texi
 235 streams.texi
 236 strings.texi
 237 symbols.texi
 238 syntax.texi
 239 text.texi
 240 tips.texi
 241 variables.texi
 242 windows.texi
 243
 244 * PLANNED ADDITIONS
 245
 246 ** CEDET (not for 23.1 due to paperwork issues, perhaps for 23.2)
 247 ** js2-mode
 248 ** pov-mode (probably not for Emacs-23: waiting for a Free POV-Ray).
 249 ** gas-mode ?
 250
 251 \f
 252 Local variables:
 253 mode: outline
 254 coding: utf-8
 255 end: