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/uce.el
  90 mail/undigest.el  ; seems totally dependent (?) on Babyl format, and has
  91                     received zero mbox-branch updates.  Is it not needed now?
  92 mail/unrmail.el   ; rev 1.13.2.4 not synced from mbox branch - should it be?
  93 net/mairix.el
  94 org/org-rmail.el
  95
  96 EOOH references:
  97
  98 gnus/gnus-util.el
  99 gnus/nnbabyl.el
 100 gnus/nndoc.el
 101 gnus/nnmail.el
 102 mail/sendmail.el
 103 mail/uce.el
 104 mail/undigest.el
 105
 106
 107 * DOCUMENTATION
 108
 109 ** Clean up Emacs.app references in code and documentation.
 110
 111 ** Document new font backend
 112
 113 ** Document XEmbed support
 114
 115 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 116
 117 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
 118 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
 119 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
 120 likewise in the respective language.
 121
 122 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 123 names of the people who have checked it.
 124
 125 SECTION                  READERS
 126 ----------------------------------
 127 etc/TUTORIAL
 128 etc/TUTORIAL.bg
 129 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 130 etc/TUTORIAL.cs
 131 etc/TUTORIAL.de
 132 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
 133 etc/TUTORIAL.es
 134 etc/TUTORIAL.fr
 135 etc/TUTORIAL.it
 136 etc/TUTORIAL.ja
 137 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 138 etc/TUTORIAL.nl
 139 etc/TUTORIAL.pl
 140 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 141 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 142 etc/TUTORIAL.ru
 143 etc/TUTORIAL.sk
 144 etc/TUTORIAL.sl
 145 etc/TUTORIAL.sv
 146 etc/TUTORIAL.th
 147 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 148
 149 ** Check the manual.
 150
 151 abbrevs.texi      -- cyd
 152 ack.texi          -- rgm
 153 anti.texi
 154 arevert-xtra.texi
 155 basic.texi        -- cyd
 156 buffers.texi      -- cyd
 157 building.texi     -- cyd
 158 calendar.texi     -- rgm
 159 cal-xtra.texi     -- rgm
 160 cmdargs.texi      -- cyd
 161 commands.texi     -- cyd
 162 custom.texi       -- cyd
 163 dired.texi        -- cyd
 164 dired-xtra.texi
 165 display.texi      -- cyd
 166 emacs.texi        -- cyd
 167 emacs-xtra.texi
 168 emerge-xtra.texi
 169 entering.texi     -- cyd
 170 files.texi
 171 fixit.texi        -- cyd
 172 fortran-xtra.texi -- rgm
 173 frames.texi       -- cyd
 174 glossary.texi
 175 help.texi
 176 indent.texi       -- cyd
 177 killing.texi      -- cyd
 178 kmacro.texi       -- cyd
 179 macos.texi     -- contents need to be evaluated and see what is still
 180  relevant after the NS merge.
 181 maintaining.texi  -- cyd
 182 major.texi        -- cyd
 183 mark.texi         -- cyd
 184 mini.texi         -- cyd
 185 misc.texi
 186 msdog.texi
 187 msdog-xtra.texi
 188 mule.texi
 189 m-x.texi          -- cyd
 190 programs.texi     -- cyd
 191 regs.texi         -- cyd
 192 rmail.texi
 193 screen.texi       -- cyd
 194 search.texi       -- cyd
 195 sending.texi
 196 text.texi         -- cyd
 197 trouble.texi
 198 windows.texi      -- rudalics
 199 xresources.texi
 200
 201 ** Check the Lisp manual.
 202
 203 abbrevs.texi
 204 advice.texi
 205 anti.texi
 206 back.texi
 207 backups.texi
 208 buffers.texi
 209 commands.texi
 210 compile.texi
 211 control.texi
 212 customize.texi
 213 debugging.texi
 214 display.texi
 215 edebug.texi
 216 elisp.texi
 217 errors.texi
 218 eval.texi
 219 files.texi
 220 frames.texi
 221 functions.texi
 222 hash.texi
 223 help.texi
 224 hooks.texi
 225 index.texi
 226 internals.texi
 227 intro.texi
 228 keymaps.texi
 229 lists.texi
 230 loading.texi
 231 locals.texi
 232 macros.texi
 233 maps.texi
 234 markers.texi
 235 minibuf.texi
 236 modes.texi
 237 nonascii.texi
 238 numbers.texi
 239 objects.texi
 240 os.texi
 241 positions.texi
 242 processes.texi
 243 searching.texi
 244 sequences.texi
 245 streams.texi
 246 strings.texi
 247 symbols.texi
 248 syntax.texi
 249 text.texi
 250 tips.texi
 251 variables.texi
 252 windows.texi
 253
 254 * PLANNED ADDITIONS
 255
 256 ** CEDET (not for 23.1 due to paperwork issues, perhaps for 23.2)
 257 ** js2-mode
 258 ** pov-mode (probably not for Emacs-23: waiting for a Free POV-Ray).
 259 ** gas-mode ?
 260
 261 \f
 262 Local variables:
 263 mode: outline
 264 coding: utf-8
 265 end: