Things That Need Doing

This page is to keep track of all of the items that are needed in order to ship MF2.0

Address all Preview-Feedback and TechPreview issues

• Close all preview-feedback issues
• How to perform non-integer exact number selection #675, #842
• Whether omitting the * variant key should be permitted #603

Function Interaction and Resolved Values

• How best to define value resolution #678
• Specify the handling of "resolved values"
• Specify the interaction of declarations, selectors, and variable references. #824
• Create tests

Error handling

• Ensure that a complete enumeration and error types is in place
• [ ] Fix requirements for error handling #782 (ECH)
• Ensure that error requirements are defined in the specification (EAO)
• Ensure that error fallback format is define for each error state (EAO)
• Update tests to match

Bidi and whitespace handling

• Whether to relax constraints on complex message start #610
• Finish design of bidi isolation support in the message syntax #746 (APP)
• Address the handling of pattern-exterior whitespace (PEWS) with regard to UAX31 (APP)

Interchange Data Model

• Specify the Interchange Data Model
  • Are namespaces separated from the name or all-one-field?
• Ensure that there are implementations
• Update tests
• A specification for a one-to-one mapping between the data model and XLIFF (this is one of our deliverables)

Function Registry (EAO)

• Specify or drop the Registry Data Model #815
• Establish registry maintenance procedures #634
• Address default registry options not included in Tech Preview
• Update tests

Markup

• Whether markup should support additional spaces #650

Expression Attributes

• Whether "attribute-like" behavior is needed and what form it should take #642

Tests

• Create complete tests for syntax (TIM)
• Create complete tests for formatting
• Create complete tests for selection
• Create complete tests for each default registry entry

Informative Annexes

This includes:

• format to parts (EAO) (on 2024-06-24 the WG discussed not including this)

Publication

• Review and approve the details of the stability policy as a WG
• Convert specification parts into a single HTML document (plus ancillary files as appropriate)
• Linkfy terms to definitions
• Publish to unicode.org

Later?

• Develop a user guide

Chair Resources

Nudge the CLA server:

• http://cla-assistant.io/check/unicode-org/message-format-wg?pullRequest=###