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 "(progn (require 'info) (setq Info-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 ** Check for modes which bind M-s that conflicts with a new global binding M-s
  65 and change key bindings where necessary.  The current list of modes:
  66
  67 1. Gnus binds `M-s' to `gnus-summary-search-article-forward'.
  68
  69 2. Minibuffer binds `M-s' to `next-matching-history-element'
  70    (not useful any more since C-s can now search in the history).
  71
  72 3. `center-line' in Text mode was already moved to the text formatting
  73    keymap as `M-o M-s' (thus this binding is not necessary any more
  74    in `nroff-mode-map' too and can be removed now from the nroff mode
  75    because it can now use the global key binding `M-o M-s' `center-line').
  76
  77 4. PCL-CVS binds `M-s' to `cvs-status', and log-edit-mode binds it to
  78    `log-edit-comment-search-forward'.  Perhaps search commands
  79    on the global key binding `M-s' are useless in these modes.
  80
  81 5. Rmail binds `\es' to `rmail-search'/`rmail-summary-search'.
  82
  83
  84 * DOCUMENTATION
  85
  86 ** Document XEmbed support
  87
  88 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  89
  90 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  91 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  92 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
  93 likewise in the respective language.
  94
  95 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  96 names of the people who have checked it.
  97
  98 SECTION                  READERS
  99 ----------------------------------
 100 TUTORIAL             cyd
 101 TUTORIAL.bg          ogi
 102 TUTORIAL.cn
 103 TUTORIAL.cs
 104 TUTORIAL.de          wl
 105 TUTORIAL.eo
 106 TUTORIAL.es
 107 TUTORIAL.fr
 108 TUTORIAL.he          eliz
 109 TUTORIAL.it
 110 TUTORIAL.ja
 111 TUTORIAL.ko
 112 TUTORIAL.nl          Pieter Schoenmakers
 113 TUTORIAL.pl
 114 TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 115 TUTORIAL.ro
 116 TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott
 117 TUTORIAL.sk
 118 TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN
 119 TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell
 120 TUTORIAL.th
 121 TUTORIAL.zh
 122
 123 ** Check the manual.
 124
 125 abbrevs.texi      cyd
 126 ack.texi          rgm
 127 anti.texi         cyd
 128 arevert-xtra.texi cyd
 129 basic.texi        cyd
 130 buffers.texi      cyd
 131 building.texi     cyd
 132 calendar.texi     rgm
 133 cal-xtra.texi     rgm
 134 cmdargs.texi      cyd
 135 commands.texi     cyd
 136 custom.texi       cyd
 137 dired.texi        cyd
 138 dired-xtra.texi   rgm
 139 display.texi      cyd
 140 emacs.texi        rgm
 141 emacs-xtra.texi
 142 emerge-xtra.texi
 143 entering.texi     cyd
 144 files.texi        cyd
 145 fixit.texi        cyd
 146 fortran-xtra.texi rgm
 147 frames.texi       cyd
 148 glossary.texi
 149 help.texi         cyd
 150 indent.texi       cyd
 151 killing.texi      cyd
 152 kmacro.texi       cyd
 153 macos.texi
 154 maintaining.texi  cyd
 155 mark.texi         cyd
 156 mini.texi
 157 misc.texi         cyd
 158 modes.texi        cyd
 159 msdog.texi
 160 msdog-xtra.texi
 161 mule.texi
 162 m-x.texi          cyd
 163 package.texi      cyd
 164 picture-xtra.texi rgm  (see bug#10860)
 165 programs.texi     cyd
 166 regs.texi         cyd
 167 rmail.texi        rgm
 168 screen.texi       cyd
 169 search.texi       cyd
 170 sending.texi      cyd
 171 text.texi         cyd
 172 trouble.texi      cyd
 173 vc-xtra.texi      cyd
 174 vc1-xtra.texi     cyd
 175 windows.texi      cyd
 176 xresources.texi   cyd
 177
 178 ** Check the Lisp manual.
 179
 180 abbrevs.texi
 181 advice.texi       cyd
 182 anti.texi
 183 back.texi
 184 backups.texi
 185 buffers.texi
 186 commands.texi     cyd
 187 compile.texi      cyd
 188 control.texi      cyd
 189 customize.texi    cyd
 190 debugging.texi    cyd
 191 display.texi
 192 edebug.texi
 193 elisp.texi
 194 errors.texi
 195 eval.texi         cyd
 196 files.texi
 197 frames.texi
 198 functions.texi    cyd
 199 hash.texi         cyd
 200 help.texi         cyd
 201 hooks.texi
 202 index.texi
 203 internals.texi
 204 intro.texi        cyd
 205 keymaps.texi      cyd
 206 lists.texi        cyd
 207 loading.texi      cyd
 208 locals.texi
 209 macros.texi       cyd
 210 maps.texi
 211 markers.texi
 212 minibuf.texi
 213 modes.texi        cyd
 214 nonascii.texi
 215 numbers.texi      cyd
 216 objects.texi      cyd
 217 os.texi
 218 package.texi
 219 positions.texi
 220 processes.texi
 221 searching.texi
 222 sequences.texi    cyd
 223 streams.texi      cyd
 224 strings.texi      cyd
 225 symbols.texi      cyd
 226 syntax.texi       cyd
 227 text.texi
 228 tips.texi
 229 variables.texi    cyd
 230 windows.texi
 231
 232 * PLANNED ADDITIONS
 233 * pov-mode (waiting for a Free POV-Ray)
 234 ** gas-mode ?
 235
 236 \f
 237 Local variables:
 238 mode: outline
 239 coding: utf-8
 240 end: