refer to a newer release of Emacs. (This is probably needed only
when preparing a major Emacs release, or branching for it.)
-5. Edit configure.in so that maintainer-mode is off by default.
- (FIXME - need to find a better way of dealing with this.
- Or maybe it's fine and indeed correct to leave it on?
- See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-03/msg00859.html
- and subsequent.)
-
- autoreconf -i -I m4 --force
+5. autoreconf -i -I m4 --force
make bootstrap
6. Commit etc/AUTHORS, all the files changed by M-x set-version, and
13. For a pretest, announce it on emacs-devel and BCC the pretesters.
For a release, announce it on info-gnu@gnu.org,
info-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, and emacs-devel.
+
+14. For a release, update the Emacs homepage in the web repository.
+ Also add the new NEWS file as NEWS.xx.y.