emacs/admin/FOR-RELEASE

Tasks needed before the next release.

* TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE

** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.

** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/.

** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.

Emacs 22 translators:

LANG	Translator            Status
cs	Pavel Janík           
de	Sven Joachim          
fr	Eric Jacoboni         
pl	Włodek Bzyl           
pt-br	Rodrigo Real          
ru	Alex Ott              
sk	Miroslav Vaško        

** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS.

** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together.

* BUGS

** Does deleting frames run Lisp code?  If so, can we get rid of that?
It is a dangerous design.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html

** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html

** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake.  Those features should not
be part of Gnus.  They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
minimized.  I don't know what is left to do here.

** Check for modes which bind M-s that conflicts with a new global binding M-s
and change key bindings where necessary.  The current list of modes:

1. Gnus binds `M-s' to `gnus-summary-search-article-forward'.

2. Minibuffer binds `M-s' to `next-matching-history-element'
   (not useful any more since C-s can now search in the history).

3. Shell mode binds `M-s' to `comint-next-matching-input'.
   This key binding can be changed later when we will implement
   incremental search through the shell history.

4. `center-line' in Text mode was already moved to the text formatting
   keymap as `M-o M-s' (thus this binding is not necessary any more
   in `nroff-mode-map' too and can be removed now from the nroff mode
   because it can now use the global key binding `M-o M-s' `center-line').

5. PCL-CVS binds `M-s' to `cvs-status', and log-edit-mode binds it to
   `log-edit-comment-search-forward'.  Perhaps search commands
   on the global key binding `M-s' are useless in these modes.

** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg02091.html

Fixed by this change?

2007-11-09  Vinicius Jose Latorre  <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>

	* ps-print.el: [...]
	(ps-do-despool): If ps-lpr-switches is not a list, force it to be one.

** In C, use EMACS_INT for variables and structure members
for buffer/string positions.  E.g. struct it, struct text_pos.

* DOCUMENTATION

** Clean up Emacs.app references in code and documentation.

** Document new font backend

** Document XEmbed support

** Check the Emacs Tutorial.

The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
likewise in the respective language.

After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
names of the people who have checked it.

SECTION                  READERS
----------------------------------
etc/TUTORIAL             
etc/TUTORIAL.bg          
etc/TUTORIAL.cn
etc/TUTORIAL.cs          
etc/TUTORIAL.de          
etc/TUTORIAL.eo
etc/TUTORIAL.es          
etc/TUTORIAL.fr          
etc/TUTORIAL.it          
etc/TUTORIAL.ja		 
etc/TUTORIAL.ko
etc/TUTORIAL.nl		 
etc/TUTORIAL.pl          
etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       
etc/TUTORIAL.ro
etc/TUTORIAL.ru          
etc/TUTORIAL.sk          
etc/TUTORIAL.sl          
etc/TUTORIAL.sv          
etc/TUTORIAL.th          
etc/TUTORIAL.zh

** Check the manual.

abbrevs.texi      -- cyd
ack.texi          -- rgm
anti.texi
arevert-xtra.texi
basic.texi        -- cyd
buffers.texi      -- cyd
building.texi     -- cyd
calendar.texi     -- rgm
cal-xtra.texi     -- rgm
cmdargs.texi      -- cyd
commands.texi     -- cyd
custom.texi       -- cyd
dired.texi        -- cyd
dired-xtra.texi
display.texi      -- cyd
emacs.texi        -- cyd
emacs-xtra.texi
emerge-xtra.texi
entering.texi     -- cyd
files.texi
fixit.texi        -- cyd
fortran-xtra.texi -- rgm
frames.texi       -- cyd
glossary.texi
help.texi
indent.texi       -- cyd
killing.texi      -- cyd
kmacro.texi       -- cyd
macos.texi     -- contents need to be evaluated and see what is still
 relevant after the NS merge.
maintaining.texi  -- cyd
major.texi        -- cyd
mark.texi         -- cyd
mini.texi         -- cyd
misc.texi
msdog.texi
msdog-xtra.texi
mule.texi
m-x.texi          -- cyd
programs.texi     -- cyd
regs.texi         -- cyd
rmail.texi        -- rgm
screen.texi       -- cyd
search.texi       -- cyd
sending.texi
text.texi         -- cyd
trouble.texi
windows.texi      -- rudalics
xresources.texi

** Check the Lisp manual.

abbrevs.texi
advice.texi
anti.texi
back.texi
backups.texi
buffers.texi
commands.texi
compile.texi
control.texi      -- cyd
customize.texi
debugging.texi
display.texi
edebug.texi
elisp.texi
errors.texi
eval.texi         -- cyd
files.texi
frames.texi
functions.texi
hash.texi         -- cyd
help.texi
hooks.texi
index.texi
internals.texi
intro.texi        -- cyd
keymaps.texi
lists.texi        -- cyd
loading.texi
locals.texi
macros.texi
maps.texi
markers.texi
minibuf.texi
modes.texi
nonascii.texi
numbers.texi      -- cyd
objects.texi      -- cyd
os.texi
positions.texi
processes.texi
searching.texi
sequences.texi    -- cyd
streams.texi
strings.texi      -- cyd
symbols.texi      -- cyd
syntax.texi
text.texi
tips.texi
variables.texi    -- cyd
windows.texi

* PLANNED ADDITIONS

** CEDET (not for 23.1 due to paperwork issues, perhaps for 23.2)
** js2-mode
** pov-mode (probably not for Emacs-23: waiting for a Free POV-Ray).
** gas-mode ?


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