Re: What should I be doing?

[Glen Mazza <gr...@yahoo.com>]

More patches, please, particularly in layout and
renderers--run the example files on FOP 0.20.5 and
1.0dev--catch the deltas (there's dozens) and send us
patches to the 1.0 code, one-by-one.

I'm currently working on converting FOP from strings
to int's.  Finn's work & Alt-Design has given me a
quite a bit to base work off of.  

Also, subscribe to the FOP-CVS list--that's a better
place to track state changes.

Glen

--- John Austin <jw...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> As I mentioned off-line to another list member, I
> have some
> questions about the progress of the current Fop
> development
> effort.
> 
> So far:
> 
> i) I have made a few measurements and reconfirmed
> some other peoples
>    opinions about possible areas for improvement.
> 
> ii) I have also proof-read some code from Alt-Design
> as preparation
>     for possibly working on it's integration. 
> 
> iii) Written a few Problem Reports in Bugzilla to
> better document
>      the 'here and now' status of the HEAD
> development stream.
> 
> iv) Established a statistical basis for an object
> discovery and
>     re-use strategy.
> 
> v) Provoked some discussion of string interning (I
> was aiming for
>    something grander in terms of [iv] above.)
> 
> 
> Everyone is extremely polite and encouraging and I
> have every
> confidence in the abilities of each active member of
> this
> discussion. 
> 
> BUT:
> 
> I don't have a feeling that we are capturing any
> territory.
> 
> The discussions are lively and quite enlightening
> but they seem to
> peter out or double back on themselves. I don't see
> any state
> changes from Bugzilla indicating that anything is
> getting fixed
> and my experience tells me that this is not healthy.
> 
> 
> -- 
> John Austin <jw...@sympatico.ca>




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