updated status for current situation, focus on redesign and testing

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk@194268 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

STATUS

@@ -14,106 +14,53 @@ Eric Schaeffer
 Jon Smirl 
 
 
-
 **** THINGS WORKED ON ***** 
 
-refactoring properties [Karen Lease]
-region-start, region-end, writing-mode, tests [Arved Sandstrom]
-upgrading svg (producing the dom in a new way and render that dom), 
-refactoring of line area (not immediately) [Keiron Liddle]
-integrating Avalon and Fop [Steven Coffman]
-docs, examples [Fotis Jannidis] 
 
+redesign/refactoring - layout [Karen Lease]
+redesign/refactoring - page layout [Arved Sandstrom]
+svg, testing [Keiron Liddle]
 
 
 **** THINGS TO DO ****
 
 
-Support XSL Candidate Release 
-
-first target is basic conformance 
-
-1.One category of tasks will be to implement missing formatting objects. 
-
-basic
-  fo:declarations
-  fo:multi-case 
-  fo:table-and-caption 
-
-extended
-  fo:bidi-override 
-  fo:color-profile
-  fo:float 
-  fo:initial-property-set
-  fo:inline-container
-  fo:marker
-  fo:multi-properties
-  fo:multi-property-set
-  fo:multi-switch
-  fo:multi-toggle
-  fo:region-end
-  fo:region-start
-  fo:retrieve-marker
-  fo:table-caption 
-  fo:title
-
-
-2. A not insignificant, category of tasks is to decide upon and 
-  implement all reasonable properties required by the specification. This 
-  also means that at this point, until further review, no FO can be considered 
-  to be compliant. 
-  This are the properties which must be implemented to reach basic conformance
-
-  a) CHANGED 
-   space-after.optimum (Incomplete) 
-   space-before.optimum (Incomplete) 
-   keep-with-next (Changed)
-
-  b) NEW 
-   alignment-adjust                                       
-   alignment-baseline
-   baseline-shift                                         
-   block-progression-dimension                            
-   border-after-precedence
-   border-before-precedence
-   border-end-precedence
-   border-start-precedence
-   clip                                                   
-   content-type                                           
-   direction                                              
-   display-align                                          
-   dominant-baseline                                      
-   font-variant                                           
-   format                                                 
-   grouping-separator                                     
-   grouping-size                                          
-   inline-progression-dimension                           
-   keep-with-next                                     
-   keep-with-previous                                     
-   letter-value                                           
-   line-stacking-strategy                                 
-   number-columns-repeated       
-   number-columns-spanned        
-   number-rows-spanned           
-   orphans                       
-   overflow                      
-   reference-orientation         
-   relative-align                
-   role                          
-   source-document               
-   space-after (full)
-   space-before (full)
-   space-end                     
-   space-start                   
-   visibility                    
-   widows                        
-   writing-mode                  
-   z-index                       
-
-3. A third category of tasks is the ongoing effort to promote maintainability, 
-   write  more and better documentation, and to refine the build process. 
-  a) add examples. In examples/fo there should be at least one file for each 
-     supported flow object showing the use of all properties applying to it.
+1)
+The immediate list of things that need to be done. These include things
+that may prevent other activity or could be done independantly.
+
+* Redesign of flow layout handling, breaks keeps, spacing etc.
+* Redesign/factoring of line area handling.
+* Testing system, moving old tests to new system etc.
+* SVG
+- integrating Avalon and Fop
+- Documentation / website needs to better help users understand how to use FOP
+- examples (a separate set of user fo examples)
+
+(* being worked on,  - no current activity)
+
+2)
+After the the layout handling is redesigned then these items should be
+promoted to first priority.
+These should be done with the aim of getting to basic conformance.
+
+- Implement all remaining formatting objects
+- improve property handling for types not currently supported (eg. 'large' font)
+- implement all required properties
+
+3)
+Nail down external interfaces (the main part is fairly stable).
+Setting base directory, using config, logging, extensions etc.
+
+Interfaces to include:
+how does FOP get called
+how does the formatter interface to renderers
+how do people write new plug-ins: handlers for new image types
+processors for fo:instream-foreign-object
 
+4)
+Improve the code. Follow the Sun Java coding guidelines.
+Have better comments and correlation between spec terms
+and methods etc.