* admin/update_autogen: Fix sed bug that was losing the last AUTOGEN_VCS.

[bpt/emacs.git] / admin / FOR-RELEASE

Tasks needed before the next release.

* TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE

** Either update, test, and support the old w32 build method, or remove it.

** Manuals
Check for node names using problematic characters:
  find doc -name '*.texi' -exec grep '^@node[^,]*[:.()]' {} +
Sadly makeinfo does not warn about such characters.

Check cross-references between the manuals (eg from emacs to elisp)
are correct.  You can use something like the following in the info
directory in the Emacs build tree:

emacs -Q --eval "(progn (require 'info) (setq Info-directory-list '(\".\")))" \
  -f info-xref-check-all

Setting Info-directory-list avoids having system info pages confuse
things.  References to external manuals will be flagged as
uncheckable.  You should still check these, and also that each
external manual has an appropriate redirect in the file manual/.htaccess
in the web pages repository.  E.g.:
Redirect /software/emacs/manual/html_mono/automake.html /software/automake/manual/automake.html
Redirect /software/emacs/manual/html_node/automake/ /software/automake/manual/html_node/

Another tool you can use to check links is gnu.org's linc.py:
http://www.gnu.org/server/source/

You run this something like:

cd /path/to/cvs/emacs-www
linc.py -o /path/to/output-dir --url http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ .

Be warned that it is really, really slow (as in, can take ~ a full day
to check the manual/ directory).  It is probably best to run it on a
single directory at a time from eg manual/html_node.  It is very
inefficient, but may reveal a few things that info-xref does not.


make emacs.dvi, elisp.dvi, and deal with any errors (undefined
references etc) in the output.  Break any overfull lines.
Underfull hboxes are not serious, but it can be nice to get rid of
them if a simple rephrasing or rearrangement will work.

Update the master menu and detailed menu (eg the antinews version).
The command texinfo-multiple-files-update can do this, but you
probably want to apply the results selectively (eg the current master
menu has better line-breaks than the automatic version).  It includes
the menu-entry name (if there is one) as well as the node name - using
only the latter looks better.  Also, it doesn't seem to handle nested
includes, so will miss edebug.texi etc.

Check for widow and orphan lines in the printed manual; make sure all
the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.  Orphans/widows
are cases where the first/last line of a paragraph is on its own at
the end/start of a page, or where the last word in a paragraph is on
its own at the start of a line.  It looks better if you reword/respace
things to avoid these.  (AFAIK, there is no way to find these except
paging through the whole manual.)  This should be the very last thing
you do, since any change can alter the layout.
(Actually, there is probably little point in trying to do this.
It's only really relevant if printed versions of the manuals are going
to be published.  End-users are not likely to print out all 1000+
pages of the manuals, and even if they do, the resulting page breaks
depend on what paper and font size they use.  This also means that if
you _are_ going to do this, it should be done with the paper and font
size that the GNU Press are going to use when they print the manuals.
I think this is different to what you get if you just use eg `make
emacs.pdf' (e.g., enable "smallbook").

** Check the keybindings in the refcards are correct, and add any new ones.
What paper size are the English versions supposed to be on?
On Debian testing, the packages texlive-lang-czechslovak and
texlive-lang-polish will let you generate the cs-* and sk-* pdfs.
(You may need texlive-lang-cyrillic, texlive-lang-german for others.)
The Makefile rules did not work for me, I had to use something like:
csplain -output-format=pdf cs-refcard

** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.

Emacs 22 translators:

LANG	Translator            Status
cs	Pavel Janík           
de	Sven Joachim          
fr	Eric Jacoboni         
pl	Włodek Bzyl           
pt-br	Rodrigo Real          
ru	Alex Ott              
sk	Miroslav Vaško        

** For a major release, add a "New in Emacs XX" section to faq.texi.

** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS.

** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together.

** Consider bumping customize-changed-options-previous-release.

** cusver-check from admin.el can help find new defcustoms missing
:version tags.

* BUGS

** Check for modes which bind M-s that conflicts with a new global binding M-s
and change key bindings where necessary.  The current list of modes:

1. Gnus binds `M-s' to `gnus-summary-search-article-forward'.

2. Minibuffer binds `M-s' to `next-matching-history-element'
   (not useful any more since C-s can now search in the history).

3. `center-line' in Text mode was already moved to the text formatting
   keymap as `M-o M-s' (thus this binding is not necessary any more
   in `nroff-mode-map' too and can be removed now from the nroff mode
   because it can now use the global key binding `M-o M-s' `center-line').

4. PCL-CVS binds `M-s' to `cvs-status', and log-edit-mode binds it to
   `log-edit-comment-search-forward'.  Perhaps search commands
   on the global key binding `M-s' are useless in these modes.

5. Rmail binds `\es' to `rmail-search'/`rmail-summary-search'.


* DOCUMENTATION

** Check the Emacs Tutorial.

The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
likewise in the respective language.

After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
names of the people who have checked it.

SECTION                  READERS
----------------------------------
TUTORIAL             cyd
TUTORIAL.bg          ogi
TUTORIAL.cn          xfq
TUTORIAL.cs          
TUTORIAL.de          wl
TUTORIAL.eo
TUTORIAL.es          
TUTORIAL.fr          
TUTORIAL.he          eliz
TUTORIAL.it          
TUTORIAL.ja          
TUTORIAL.ko
TUTORIAL.nl	     Pieter Schoenmakers
TUTORIAL.pl          
TUTORIAL.pt_BR       
TUTORIAL.ro
TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott
TUTORIAL.sk          
TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN
TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell
TUTORIAL.th          
TUTORIAL.zh

** Check the manual.

abbrevs.texi      cyd
ack.texi          rgm
anti.texi         cyd
arevert-xtra.texi cyd
basic.texi        cyd
buffers.texi      cyd
building.texi     cyd
calendar.texi     rgm
cal-xtra.texi     rgm
cmdargs.texi      cyd
commands.texi     cyd
custom.texi       cyd
dired.texi        cyd
dired-xtra.texi   rgm
display.texi      cyd
emacs.texi        rgm
emacs-xtra.texi   rgm
emerge-xtra.texi  rgm
entering.texi     cyd
files.texi        cyd
fixit.texi        cyd
fortran-xtra.texi rgm
frames.texi       cyd
glossary.texi     rgm
help.texi         cyd
indent.texi       cyd
killing.texi      cyd
kmacro.texi       cyd
macos.texi        rgm  (can't actually test any of it though)
maintaining.texi  cyd
mark.texi         cyd
mini.texi         rgm
misc.texi         cyd
modes.texi        cyd
msdog.texi        rgm  (can't actually test any of it though)
msdog-xtra.texi   rgm  (can't actually test any of it though)
mule.texi         rgm  (not 100% sure about "Fontsets")
m-x.texi          cyd
package.texi      cyd
picture-xtra.texi rgm
programs.texi     cyd
regs.texi         cyd
rmail.texi        rgm
screen.texi       cyd
search.texi       cyd
sending.texi      cyd
text.texi         cyd
trouble.texi      cyd
vc-xtra.texi      cyd
vc1-xtra.texi     cyd
windows.texi      cyd
xresources.texi   cyd

** Check the Lisp manual.

abbrevs.texi      rgm
advice.texi       cyd
anti.texi         rgm
back.texi         rgm
backups.texi      cyd
buffers.texi      cyd
commands.texi     cyd
compile.texi      cyd
control.texi      cyd
customize.texi    cyd
debugging.texi    cyd
display.texi      cyd
edebug.texi       rgm
elisp.texi
errors.texi       rgm
eval.texi         cyd
files.texi        cyd
frames.texi       cyd
functions.texi    cyd
hash.texi         cyd
help.texi         cyd
hooks.texi        rgm
index.texi
internals.texi    rgm  cyd
intro.texi        cyd
keymaps.texi      cyd
lists.texi        cyd
loading.texi      cyd
macros.texi       cyd
maps.texi         rgm
markers.texi      rgm
minibuf.texi      rgm
modes.texi        cyd
nonascii.texi     cyd
numbers.texi      cyd
objects.texi      cyd
os.texi           cyd
package.texi      rgm
positions.texi    cyd
processes.texi    rgm
searching.texi    rgm
sequences.texi    cyd
streams.texi      cyd
strings.texi      cyd
symbols.texi      cyd
syntax.texi       cyd
text.texi         cyd
tips.texi         rgm
variables.texi    cyd
windows.texi      rgm (skimmed)

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