Yes, I've read the FOP Coding Guidelines [1]. I have an SVN client (Tortoise SVN) and IDE (InteillJ IDEA) set up.
Thanks for the advice on where to get started! I'm looking at [3] http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47709, which is the failure of the amendment to the font-shorthand-test, and which you say looks like a Properties bug. Best Regards, Jonathan S. Levinson Senior Software Developer Object Group InterSystems 617-621-0600 -----Original Message----- From: Chris Bowditch [mailto:bowditch_ch...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:06 AM To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Volunteering to work on FOP development 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 > > >
