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 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code?  If so, can we get rid of that?
  65 It is a dangerous design.
  66 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
  67
  68 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
  69 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
  70
  71 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake.  Those features should not
  72 be part of Gnus.  They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
  73 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
  74 minimized.  I don't know what is left to do here.
  75
  76 ** Check for modes which bind M-s that conflicts with a new global binding M-s
  77 and change key bindings where necessary.  The current list of modes:
  78
  79 1. Gnus binds `M-s' to `gnus-summary-search-article-forward'.
  80
  81 2. Minibuffer binds `M-s' to `next-matching-history-element'
  82    (not useful any more since C-s can now search in the history).
  83
  84 3. `center-line' in Text mode was already moved to the text formatting
  85    keymap as `M-o M-s' (thus this binding is not necessary any more
  86    in `nroff-mode-map' too and can be removed now from the nroff mode
  87    because it can now use the global key binding `M-o M-s' `center-line').
  88
  89 4. PCL-CVS binds `M-s' to `cvs-status', and log-edit-mode binds it to
  90    `log-edit-comment-search-forward'.  Perhaps search commands
  91    on the global key binding `M-s' are useless in these modes.
  92
  93 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
  94 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg02091.html
  95
  96 Fixed by this change?
  97
  98 2007-11-09  Vinicius Jose Latorre  <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
  99
 100         * ps-print.el: [...]
 101         (ps-do-despool): If ps-lpr-switches is not a list, force it to be one.
 102
 103 ** In C, use EMACS_INT for variables and structure members
 104 for buffer/string positions.  E.g. struct it, struct text_pos.
 105
 106 * DOCUMENTATION
 107
 108 ** Clean up Emacs.app references in code and documentation.
 109
 110 ** Document new font backend
 111
 112 ** Document XEmbed support
 113
 114 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 115
 116 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
 117 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
 118 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
 119 likewise in the respective language.
 120
 121 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 122 names of the people who have checked it.
 123
 124 SECTION                  READERS
 125 ----------------------------------
 126 TUTORIAL
 127 TUTORIAL.bg
 128 TUTORIAL.cn
 129 TUTORIAL.cs
 130 TUTORIAL.de
 131 TUTORIAL.eo
 132 TUTORIAL.es
 133 TUTORIAL.fr
 134 TUTORIAL.he
 135 TUTORIAL.it
 136 TUTORIAL.ja
 137 TUTORIAL.ko
 138 TUTORIAL.nl
 139 TUTORIAL.pl
 140 TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 141 TUTORIAL.ro
 142 TUTORIAL.ru
 143 TUTORIAL.sk
 144 TUTORIAL.sl
 145 TUTORIAL.sv
 146 TUTORIAL.th
 147 TUTORIAL.zh
 148
 149 ** Check the manual.
 150
 151 abbrevs.texi
 152 ack.texi
 153 anti.texi
 154 arevert-xtra.texi
 155 basic.texi        cyd
 156 buffers.texi
 157 building.texi
 158 calendar.texi
 159 cal-xtra.texi
 160 cmdargs.texi
 161 commands.texi     cyd
 162 custom.texi
 163 dired.texi
 164 dired-xtra.texi
 165 display.texi      cyd
 166 emacs.texi
 167 emacs-xtra.texi
 168 emerge-xtra.texi
 169 entering.texi     cyd
 170 files.texi
 171 fixit.texi
 172 fortran-xtra.texi
 173 frames.texi
 174 glossary.texi
 175 help.texi         cyd
 176 indent.texi
 177 killing.texi      cyd
 178 kmacro.texi
 179 macos.texi
 180 maintaining.texi
 181 major.texi
 182 mark.texi         cyd
 183 mini.texi
 184 misc.texi
 185 msdog.texi
 186 msdog-xtra.texi
 187 mule.texi
 188 m-x.texi          cyd
 189 picture-xtra.texi
 190 programs.texi
 191 regs.texi         cyd
 192 rmail.texi
 193 screen.texi       cyd
 194 search.texi
 195 sending.texi
 196 text.texi
 197 trouble.texi
 198 vc-xtra.texi
 199 vc1-xtra.texi
 200 windows.texi
 201 xresources.texi
 202
 203 ** Check the Lisp manual.
 204
 205 abbrevs.texi
 206 advice.texi
 207 anti.texi
 208 back.texi
 209 backups.texi
 210 buffers.texi
 211 commands.texi
 212 compile.texi
 213 control.texi
 214 customize.texi
 215 debugging.texi
 216 display.texi
 217 edebug.texi
 218 elisp.texi
 219 errors.texi
 220 eval.texi
 221 files.texi
 222 frames.texi
 223 functions.texi
 224 hash.texi
 225 help.texi
 226 hooks.texi
 227 index.texi
 228 internals.texi
 229 intro.texi
 230 keymaps.texi
 231 lists.texi
 232 loading.texi
 233 locals.texi
 234 macros.texi
 235 maps.texi
 236 markers.texi
 237 minibuf.texi
 238 modes.texi
 239 nonascii.texi
 240 numbers.texi
 241 objects.texi
 242 os.texi
 243 package.texi
 244 positions.texi
 245 processes.texi
 246 searching.texi
 247 sequences.texi
 248 streams.texi
 249 strings.texi
 250 symbols.texi
 251 syntax.texi
 252 text.texi
 253 tips.texi
 254 variables.texi
 255 windows.texi
 256
 257 * PLANNED ADDITIONS
 258
 259 ** pov-mode (probably not for Emacs-23: waiting for a Free POV-Ray).
 260 ** gas-mode ?
 261
 262 \f
 263 Local variables:
 264 mode: outline
 265 coding: utf-8
 266 end: