admin/FOR-RELEASE

   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
   4
   5 ** Manuals
   6 Check cross-references between the manuals (eg from emacs to elisp)
   7 are correct.  You can use something like the following in the info
   8 directory in the Emacs build tree:
   9
  10 emacs -Q --eval "(setq Info-default-directory-list '(\".\"))" \
  11   -f info-xref-check-all
  12
  13 make emacs.dvi, elisp.dvi, and deal with any errors (undefined
  14 references etc) in the output.  Break any overfull lines.
  15 Underfull hboxes are not serious, but it can be nice to get rid of
  16 them if a simple rephrasing or rearrangement will work.
  17
  18 Update the master menu and detailed menu (eg the antinews version).
  19 The command texinfo-multiple-files-update can do this, but you
  20 probably want to apply the results selectively (eg the current master
  21 menu has better line-breaks than the automatic version).  It includes
  22 the menu-entry name (if there is one) as well as the node name - using
  23 only the latter looks better.  Also, it doesn't seem to handle nested
  24 includes, so will miss edebug.texi etc.
  25
  26 Check for widow and orphan lines in the printed manual; make sure all
  27 the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.  Orphans/widows
  28 are cases where the first/last line of a paragraph is on its own at
  29 the end/start of a page, or where the last word in a paragraph is on
  30 its own at the start of a line.  It looks better if you reword/respace
  31 things to avoid these.  (AFAIK, there is no way to find these except
  32 paging through the whole manual.)  This should be the very last thing
  33 you do, since any change can alter the layout.
  34
  35 ** Check the keybindings in the refcards are correct, and add any new ones.
  36 Regenerate the pdf versions in etc/refcards/.
  37 What paper size are the English versions supposed to be on?
  38 On Debian testing, the packages texlive-lang-czechslovak and
  39 texlive-lang-polish will let you generate the cs-* and sk-* pdfs.
  40 The Makefile rules did not work for me, I had to use something like:
  41 csplain -output-format=pdf cs-refcard
  42
  43 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  44
  45 Emacs 22 translators:
  46
  47 LANG    Translator            Status
  48 cs      Pavel Janík
  49 de      Sven Joachim
  50 fr      Eric Jacoboni
  51 pl      Włodek Bzyl
  52 pt-br   Rodrigo Real
  53 ru      Alex Ott
  54 sk      Miroslav Vaško
  55
  56 ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS.
  57
  58 ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together.
  59
  60 ** Consider bumping customize-changed-options-previous-release.
  61
  62 * BUGS
  63
  64 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake.  Those features should not
  65 be part of Gnus.  They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
  66 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
  67 minimized.  I don't know what is left to do here.
  68
  69 ** Check for modes which bind M-s that conflicts with a new global binding M-s
  70 and change key bindings where necessary.  The current list of modes:
  71
  72 1. Gnus binds `M-s' to `gnus-summary-search-article-forward'.
  73
  74 2. Minibuffer binds `M-s' to `next-matching-history-element'
  75    (not useful any more since C-s can now search in the history).
  76
  77 3. `center-line' in Text mode was already moved to the text formatting
  78    keymap as `M-o M-s' (thus this binding is not necessary any more
  79    in `nroff-mode-map' too and can be removed now from the nroff mode
  80    because it can now use the global key binding `M-o M-s' `center-line').
  81
  82 4. PCL-CVS binds `M-s' to `cvs-status', and log-edit-mode binds it to
  83    `log-edit-comment-search-forward'.  Perhaps search commands
  84    on the global key binding `M-s' are useless in these modes.
  85
  86 * DOCUMENTATION
  87
  88 ** Document XEmbed support
  89
  90 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  91
  92 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  93 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  94 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
  95 likewise in the respective language.
  96
  97 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  98 names of the people who have checked it.
  99
 100 SECTION                  READERS
 101 ----------------------------------
 102 TUTORIAL             cyd
 103 TUTORIAL.bg
 104 TUTORIAL.cn
 105 TUTORIAL.cs
 106 TUTORIAL.de
 107 TUTORIAL.eo
 108 TUTORIAL.es
 109 TUTORIAL.fr
 110 TUTORIAL.he          eliz
 111 TUTORIAL.it
 112 TUTORIAL.ja
 113 TUTORIAL.ko
 114 TUTORIAL.nl
 115 TUTORIAL.pl
 116 TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 117 TUTORIAL.ro
 118 TUTORIAL.ru
 119 TUTORIAL.sk
 120 TUTORIAL.sl
 121 TUTORIAL.sv
 122 TUTORIAL.th
 123 TUTORIAL.zh
 124
 125 ** Check the manual.
 126
 127 abbrevs.texi      cyd
 128 ack.texi
 129 anti.texi
 130 arevert-xtra.texi cyd
 131 basic.texi        cyd
 132 buffers.texi      cyd
 133 building.texi     cyd
 134 calendar.texi
 135 cal-xtra.texi
 136 cmdargs.texi      cyd
 137 commands.texi     cyd
 138 custom.texi       cyd
 139 dired.texi        cyd
 140 dired-xtra.texi
 141 display.texi      cyd
 142 emacs.texi
 143 emacs-xtra.texi
 144 emerge-xtra.texi
 145 entering.texi     cyd
 146 files.texi        cyd
 147 fixit.texi
 148 fortran-xtra.texi
 149 frames.texi       cyd
 150 glossary.texi
 151 help.texi         cyd
 152 indent.texi       cyd
 153 killing.texi      cyd
 154 kmacro.texi       cyd
 155 macos.texi
 156 maintaining.texi  cyd
 157 mark.texi         cyd
 158 mini.texi
 159 misc.texi         cyd
 160 modes.texi        cyd
 161 msdog.texi
 162 msdog-xtra.texi
 163 mule.texi
 164 m-x.texi          cyd
 165 package.texi      cyd
 166 picture-xtra.texi
 167 programs.texi     cyd
 168 regs.texi         cyd
 169 rmail.texi
 170 screen.texi       cyd
 171 search.texi       cyd
 172 sending.texi      cyd
 173 text.texi         cyd
 174 trouble.texi      cyd
 175 vc-xtra.texi      cyd
 176 vc1-xtra.texi     cyd
 177 windows.texi      cyd
 178 xresources.texi
 179
 180 ** Check the Lisp manual.
 181
 182 abbrevs.texi
 183 advice.texi
 184 anti.texi
 185 back.texi
 186 backups.texi
 187 buffers.texi
 188 commands.texi
 189 compile.texi
 190 control.texi
 191 customize.texi
 192 debugging.texi
 193 display.texi
 194 edebug.texi
 195 elisp.texi
 196 errors.texi
 197 eval.texi
 198 files.texi
 199 frames.texi
 200 functions.texi
 201 hash.texi
 202 help.texi
 203 hooks.texi
 204 index.texi
 205 internals.texi
 206 intro.texi
 207 keymaps.texi
 208 lists.texi
 209 loading.texi
 210 locals.texi
 211 macros.texi
 212 maps.texi
 213 markers.texi
 214 minibuf.texi
 215 modes.texi
 216 nonascii.texi
 217 numbers.texi
 218 objects.texi
 219 os.texi
 220 package.texi
 221 positions.texi
 222 processes.texi
 223 searching.texi
 224 sequences.texi
 225 streams.texi
 226 strings.texi
 227 symbols.texi
 228 syntax.texi
 229 text.texi
 230 tips.texi
 231 variables.texi
 232 windows.texi
 233
 234 * PLANNED ADDITIONS
 235
 236 ** pov-mode (probably not for Emacs-23: waiting for a Free POV-Ray).
 237 ** gas-mode ?
 238
 239 \f
 240 Local variables:
 241 mode: outline
 242 coding: utf-8
 243 end: