Jonathan Levinson wrote:
Hi,
Hi Jonathon,
My management has asked me to volunteer to help fix FOP bugs and add FOP
enhancements. I’m not yet familiar with FOP internals though I’ve read
your design documents.
Good news indeed. FOP is short on development resources. I take it you
have read the FOP Coding Guidelines [1] and got SVN client and Java IDE
setup?
I work for InterSystems: www.intersystems.com
<http://www.intersystems.com> <http://www.intersystems.com> . I’m
responsible for the InterSystems reporting engine: ZEN Reports. ZEN
Reports generates XSLT to transform XML to XSL-FO and uses RenderX XEP,
FOP, and Antenna House for rendering engines.
I have to start somewhere and a question I have is this: what would be a
good “starter bug” or enhancement for me to work on? Can anyone give me
any pointers on how to get started?
The trick for a newbie is to avoid the layout engine. Still there are
plenty of bugs in the Renderers/Painters, FO Tree or Properties
component. I had a quick flick through bugzilla and found [2] which may
be an FOTree related issue and [3] which looks like a Properties bug
[1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/conventions.html
[2] http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47835
[3] http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47709
Thanks,
Chris
Thanks!
Best Regards,
Jonathan S. Levinson
Senior Software Developer
Object Group
InterSystems
617-621-0600
