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 ** Update INSTALL and NEWS to reflect lack of MS-DOS support, if it still
  28 isn't working by then.
  29
  30 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS
  31
  32 ** Emacs crashes on Windows when visiting .tar.gz files.  See
  33
  34    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-06/msg01850.html
  35
  36 and its follow-ups.
  37
  38 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
  39 Verify that the new font backend eliminates this and other Cleartype related
  40 problems.
  41
  42 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  43   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  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 ** han@mijncomputer.nl, Feb 3: emacsclient misbehaves
 117
 118 ** Mouse clicks on the menubar don't currently work with a console
 119 Following the direct use of Gpm, the menubar now needs to be
 120 considered a special part of the screen in Emacs on a console.
 121 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00277.html
 122
 123 ** unicode-merge issues:
 124
 125 *** The data segment size increased after the unicode-2 merge.
 126 The "data" size increased for emacs from ~4MB to ~11MB on x86.
 127 The temacs sizes are comparable.
 128 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00951.html
 129
 130 ** Clean up Emacs.app references in code and documentation.
 131
 132 * DOCUMENTATION
 133
 134 ** Verify if doc/emacs/macos.texi is still useful, remove it if it is not.
 135
 136 ** Document multi-tty features
 137 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html
 138 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html
 139
 140 ** Document new font backend
 141
 142 ** Document XEmbed support
 143
 144 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 145
 146 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
 147 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
 148 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
 149 likewise in the respective language.
 150
 151 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 152 names of the people who have checked it.
 153
 154 SECTION                  READERS
 155 ----------------------------------
 156 etc/TUTORIAL
 157 etc/TUTORIAL.bg
 158 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 159 etc/TUTORIAL.cs
 160 etc/TUTORIAL.de
 161 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
 162 etc/TUTORIAL.es
 163 etc/TUTORIAL.fr
 164 etc/TUTORIAL.it
 165 etc/TUTORIAL.ja
 166 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 167 etc/TUTORIAL.nl
 168 etc/TUTORIAL.pl
 169 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 170 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 171 etc/TUTORIAL.ru
 172 etc/TUTORIAL.sk
 173 etc/TUTORIAL.sl
 174 etc/TUTORIAL.sv
 175 etc/TUTORIAL.th
 176 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 177
 178 ** Check the manual.
 179
 180 abbrevs.texi
 181 ack.texi
 182 anti.texi
 183 arevert-xtra.texi
 184 basic.texi        -- cyd
 185 buffers.texi
 186 building.texi
 187 calendar.texi
 188 cal-xtra.texi
 189 cmdargs.texi
 190 commands.texi     -- cyd
 191 custom.texi
 192 dired.texi
 193 dired-xtra.texi
 194 display.texi
 195 emacs.texi        -- cyd
 196 emacs-xtra.texi
 197 emerge-xtra.texi
 198 entering.texi     -- cyd
 199 files.texi
 200 fixit.texi
 201 fortran-xtra.texi -- rgm
 202 frames.texi
 203 glossary.texi
 204 gnu.texi
 205 gpl.texi
 206 help.texi
 207 indent.texi
 208 killing.texi      -- cyd
 209 kmacro.texi
 210 macos.texi     -- contents need to be evaluated and see what is still
 211 relevant after the NS merge.
 212 maintaining.texi
 213 major.texi
 214 mark.texi         -- cyd
 215 mini.texi         -- cyd
 216 misc.texi
 217 msdog.texi
 218 msdog-xtra.texi
 219 mule.texi
 220 m-x.texi
 221 programs.texi
 222 regs.texi         -- cyd
 223 rmail.texi
 224 screen.texi       -- cyd
 225 search.texi
 226 sending.texi
 227 text.texi
 228 trouble.texi
 229 windows.texi
 230 xresources.texi
 231
 232 ** Check the Lisp manual.
 233
 234 abbrevs.texi
 235 advice.texi
 236 anti.texi
 237 back.texi
 238 backups.texi
 239 buffers.texi
 240 commands.texi
 241 compile.texi
 242 control.texi
 243 customize.texi
 244 debugging.texi
 245 display.texi
 246 doclicense.texi
 247 edebug.texi
 248 elisp.texi
 249 errors.texi
 250 eval.texi
 251 files.texi
 252 frames.texi
 253 functions.texi
 254 hash.texi
 255 help.texi
 256 hooks.texi
 257 index.texi
 258 internals.texi
 259 intro.texi
 260 keymaps.texi
 261 lists.texi
 262 loading.texi
 263 locals.texi
 264 macros.texi
 265 maps.texi
 266 markers.texi
 267 minibuf.texi
 268 modes.texi
 269 nonascii.texi
 270 numbers.texi
 271 objects.texi
 272 os.texi
 273 positions.texi
 274 processes.texi
 275 searching.texi
 276 sequences.texi
 277 spellfile
 278 streams.texi
 279 strings.texi
 280 symbols.texi
 281 syntax.texi
 282 text.texi
 283 tips.texi
 284 two.el
 285 variables.texi
 286 windows.texi
 287
 288 * PLANNED ADDITIONS
 289 ** CEDET (not for 23.1 due to paperwork issues, perhaps for 23.2)
 290 ** ruby-mode
 291 ** js2-mode
 292 ** pov-mode (probably not for Emacs-23: waiting for a Free POV-Ray).
 293 \f
 294 Local variables:
 295 mode: outline
 296 coding: utf-8
 297 end: