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
 103 TUTORIAL.bg
 104 TUTORIAL.cn
 105 TUTORIAL.cs
 106 TUTORIAL.de
 107 TUTORIAL.eo
 108 TUTORIAL.es
 109 TUTORIAL.fr
 110 TUTORIAL.he
 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
 137 commands.texi     cyd
 138 custom.texi
 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
 160 modes.texi        cyd
 161 msdog.texi
 162 msdog-xtra.texi
 163 mule.texi
 164 m-x.texi          cyd
 165 picture-xtra.texi
 166 programs.texi     cyd
 167 regs.texi         cyd
 168 rmail.texi
 169 screen.texi       cyd
 170 search.texi       cyd
 171 sending.texi      cyd
 172 text.texi         cyd
 173 trouble.texi
 174 vc-xtra.texi      cyd
 175 vc1-xtra.texi     cyd
 176 windows.texi      cyd
 177 xresources.texi
 178
 179 ** Check the Lisp manual.
 180
 181 abbrevs.texi
 182 advice.texi
 183 anti.texi
 184 back.texi
 185 backups.texi
 186 buffers.texi
 187 commands.texi
 188 compile.texi
 189 control.texi
 190 customize.texi
 191 debugging.texi
 192 display.texi
 193 edebug.texi
 194 elisp.texi
 195 errors.texi
 196 eval.texi
 197 files.texi
 198 frames.texi
 199 functions.texi
 200 hash.texi
 201 help.texi
 202 hooks.texi
 203 index.texi
 204 internals.texi
 205 intro.texi
 206 keymaps.texi
 207 lists.texi
 208 loading.texi
 209 locals.texi
 210 macros.texi
 211 maps.texi
 212 markers.texi
 213 minibuf.texi
 214 modes.texi
 215 nonascii.texi
 216 numbers.texi
 217 objects.texi
 218 os.texi
 219 package.texi
 220 positions.texi
 221 processes.texi
 222 searching.texi
 223 sequences.texi
 224 streams.texi
 225 strings.texi
 226 symbols.texi
 227 syntax.texi
 228 text.texi
 229 tips.texi
 230 variables.texi
 231 windows.texi
 232
 233 * PLANNED ADDITIONS
 234
 235 ** pov-mode (probably not for Emacs-23: waiting for a Free POV-Ray).
 236 ** gas-mode ?
 237
 238 \f
 239 Local variables:
 240 mode: outline
 241 coding: utf-8
 242 end: