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 ** libxpm is loaded too soon
  40 Since the multi-tty merge, libxpm is loaded before the init files because
  41 of changes in toolbar setup; that prevents using image-library-alist in
  42 .emacs to select the desired XPM library.  Reported by Takashi Hiromatsu.
  43 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02191.html
  44
  45 * BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT
  46
  47 ** raman@users.sf.net, sep 7: Emacs 23.0.50: Segfaults in alloc.c (batch process)
  48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00690.html
  49
  50 ** undefined reference getopt_long
  51 Report by Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> on bug-gnu-emacs
  52 from 2007-08-27.  Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as
  53 of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this.
  54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html
  55
  56 * BUGS
  57
  58 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code?  If so, can we get rid of that?
  59 It is a dangerous design.
  60 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
  61
  62 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
  63 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
  64
  65 ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode.
  66 "can't turn off font-lock"
  67 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00548.html
  68
  69 ** mah@everybody.org, Sep 18: erc causes emacs to hang with multi-tty
  70 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01765.html
  71
  72 ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty
  73 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00094.html
  74 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01816.html
  75
  76 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop.
  77 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01720.html
  78
  79 ** herring@lanl.gov: find-func: can no longer find adviced subrs
  80 This ought to work.
  81
  82 ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries
  83 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00209.html
  84
  85 ** menu indications of key bindings for remapped commands
  86 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html
  87
  88 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake.  Those features should not
  89 be part of Gnus.  They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
  90 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
  91 minimized.  I don't know what is left to do here.
  92
  93 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
  94
  95 ** timh@insightful.com, 9 Nov: X-coding-system incompatibility, and workaround
  96
  97 ** multi-tty does not work correctly.
  98 If the server is started from a tty frame and emacsclient creates an
  99 X11 frame, the tty frame gets confused, it thinks it is an X11 frame
 100 when trying to do a C-z.  This worked with server.el version 1.136, it
 101 broke after that.
 102 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-12/msg00545.html
 103 Also emacsclient does not work on Windows, it also worked with
 104 server.el version 1.136.
 105 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00710.html
 106
 107 ** skeleton bug? Or is it now working as documented?
 108 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01335.html
 109
 110 ** move verilog-mode.el compile patterns into compile.el?
 111 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00234.html
 112
 113 ** stack-trace-on-error segfaults infloop
 114 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg02031.html
 115
 116 ** `make bootstrap; make install' dumps another emacs
 117 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00311.html
 118
 119 ** han@mijncomputer.nl, Feb 3: emacsclient misbehaves
 120
 121 ** Mouse clicks on the menubar don't currently work with a console
 122 Following the direct use of Gpm, the menubar now needs to be
 123 considered a special part of the screen in Emacs on a console.
 124 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00277.html
 125
 126 ** unicode-merge issues:
 127
 128 *** The data segment size increased after the unicode-2 merge.
 129 The "data" size increased for emacs from ~4MB to ~11MB on x86.
 130 The temacs sizes are comparable.
 131 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00951.html
 132
 133 ** font-backend problems:
 134
 135 *** Xresource pane.menubar.*font no longer takes effect
 136 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00314.html
 137 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01683.html
 138
 139 *** font-lock faces use different font with font-backend
 140 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg00651.html
 141
 142 *** font height problems with font-backend
 143 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg00620.html
 144
 145
 146 * DOCUMENTATION
 147
 148 ** Document multi-tty features
 149 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html
 150 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html
 151
 152 ** Document new font backend
 153
 154 ** Document XEmbed support
 155
 156 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 157
 158 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
 159 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
 160 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
 161 likewise in the respective language.
 162
 163 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 164 names of the people who have checked it.
 165
 166 SECTION                  READERS
 167 ----------------------------------
 168 etc/TUTORIAL
 169 etc/TUTORIAL.bg
 170 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 171 etc/TUTORIAL.cs
 172 etc/TUTORIAL.de
 173 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
 174 etc/TUTORIAL.es
 175 etc/TUTORIAL.fr
 176 etc/TUTORIAL.it
 177 etc/TUTORIAL.ja
 178 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 179 etc/TUTORIAL.nl
 180 etc/TUTORIAL.pl
 181 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 182 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 183 etc/TUTORIAL.ru
 184 etc/TUTORIAL.sk
 185 etc/TUTORIAL.sl
 186 etc/TUTORIAL.sv
 187 etc/TUTORIAL.th
 188 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 189
 190 \f
 191 Local variables:
 192 mode: outline
 193 coding: utf-8
 194 end: