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<p>This page is for anyone to submit ideas for Google Summer of Code projects with Mozilla for 2012. As it is open to all, it will inevitably contain suggestions of wildly variable quality.  
This page is for anyone to submit ideas for Google Summer of Code projects with Mozilla for 2012. As it is open to all, it will inevitably contain suggestions of wildly variable quality.  
</p><p><b>Students: ideas approved by the SoC admins are &lt;a href="Community:SummerOfCode12"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.</b> You can also submit ideas from this page, but they are rather less likely to be accepted. (There's probably a reason they haven't been moved to that page.) <b>You can also submit your own ideas - you don't have to put an idea on this page and get it made official in order to propose it.</b>
</p>
<h2>How To Make Good Suggestions</h2>
<p>Before adding an idea to this list, please consider the following:
</p>
<ul><li> <b>Be specific</b>. It's hard to understand the impact of, or the size of, vague proposals.
</li><li> <b>Consider size</b>. The student has eight weeks to design, code, test and document the proposal. It needs to fill, but not overfill, that time.
</li><li> <b>Do your research</b>. Support the idea with well-researched links.
</li><li> <b>Don't morph other people's ideas</b>. If you have a related idea, place it next to the existing one, or add a comment.
</li><li> <b>Insert only your own name into the Mentor column</b>, and then only if you are willing to take on the responsibility. If you think the SoC admins won't know you, leave contact details.
</li><li> <b>Check back regularly</b>. The administrators may have questions about your idea that you will need to answer.
</li><li> <b>Know when to give up</b>. If you've added the same idea for the last three years and it hasn't made it to the official page, perhaps you can predict what will happen this time.
</li></ul>
<h2>Suggestion List</h2>
<p>&lt;a href="SummerOfCode"&gt;Links to ideas lists from previous years&lt;/a&gt;.
</p>
<h2> Mozilla Platform (Gecko) </h2>
<h2> Firefox </h2>
<h2> Firefox Mobile </h2>
<h2> Boot2Gecko </h2>
<h2> Calendar </h2>
<table class="standard-table" style="border: 1px solid black">


<b>Students: ideas approved by the SoC admins are [[Community:SummerOfCode12|here]].</b> You can also submit ideas from this page, but they are rather less likely to be accepted. (There's probably a reason they haven't been moved to that page.) <b>You can also submit your own ideas - you don't have to put an idea on this page and get it made official in order to propose it.</b>
<tr>
 
<th> Title
==How To Make Good Suggestions==
</th>
 
<th> Details - with links as appropriate
Before adding an idea to this list, please consider the following:
</th>
 
<th> Reporter
* '''Be specific'''. It's hard to understand the impact of, or the size of, vague proposals.
</th>
* '''Consider size'''. The student has eight weeks to design, code, test and document the proposal. It needs to fill, but not overfill, that time.
<th> Mentor(s)
* '''Do your research'''. Support the idea with well-researched links.
</th>
* '''Don't morph other people's ideas'''. If you have a related idea, place it next to the existing one, or add a comment.
<th> Comments
* '''Insert only your own name into the Mentor column''', and then only if you are willing to take on the responsibility. If you think the SoC admins won't know you, leave contact details.
</th></tr>
* '''Check back regularly'''. The administrators may have questions about your idea that you will need to answer.
<tr>
* '''Know when to give up'''. If you've added the same idea for the last three years and it hasn't made it to the official page, perhaps you can predict what will happen this time.
<td> Improve Invitation support
 
</td>
==Suggestion List==
<td> While Lightning supports invitations, there are still some features that are not supported yet and others that are not quite as stable. Possible goals for this project include improving the UI to make sure users are not confused and implementing/adapting code to support previously unsupported features of invitations like delegations or counters. Lightning relies on the &lt;a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6047"&gt;itip/imip&lt;/a&gt; standard for invitations, which is also used by most other calendaring clients and servers, so an interested student should look into these. Related bugs are <span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template">{{bug|420516}}</span></span></span></span>, <span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template">{{bug|426532}}</span></span></span></span>, <span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template">{{bug|445982}}</span></span></span></span>, <span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template">{{bug|538043}}</span></span></span></span>, <span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template">{{bug|720263}}</span></span></span></span>, <span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template">{{bug|624332}}</span></span></span></span>, <span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template">{{bug|433848}}</span></span></span></span>. This is not the final list of bugs to be fixed, just to give you an idea of what can be done here.
 
</td>
[[SummerOfCode|Links to ideas lists from previous years]].
<td> &lt;a href="mailto:mozilla@kewis.ch"&gt;Fallen&lt;/a&gt;
 
</td>
== Mozilla Platform (Gecko) ==
<td> ludovic?
 
</td></tr>
== Firefox ==
<tr>
 
<td> OS Integration
== Firefox Mobile ==
</td>
 
<td> Lightning should improve its integration into the Operating system, most importantly on Windows. If you've ever wanted to doubleclick on an event to open it in Lightning, this project is for you. Note this might be a bit more tricky than it intially sounds, but you will have the chance to contribute to multiple projects, as some parts of this project could possibly be better solved within Thunderbird or even the Mozilla Platform. To get prepared, see the list of &lt;a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Calendar&amp;component=OS%20Integration&amp;resolution=---&amp;list_id=2260690"&gt;OS Integration bugs&lt;/a&gt;, and especially <span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template">{{bug|352566}}</span></span></span></span>.
== Boot2Gecko ==
</td>
 
<td> &lt;a href="mailto:mozilla@kewis.ch"&gt;Fallen&lt;/a&gt;
== Thunderbird ==
</td>
 
<td> Fallen+someone else?
== SeaMonkey ==
</td></tr></table>
 
<h2> Thunderbird </h2>
== Camino ==
<h2> SeaMonkey </h2>
 
<h2> Camino </h2>
==NSS (Network Security Services)==
<h2>NSS (Network Security Services)</h2>
 
<h2> Bugzilla </h2>
== Bugzilla ==
<h2> Firefox Support (SUMO) </h2>
 
<h2> QA </h2>
== Firefox Support (SUMO) ==
<h2> Documentation </h2>
 
<h2> Mozilla IT and Infrastructure </h2>
== QA ==
<h2> Open Web Apps </h2>
 
<h2> BrowserID </h2>
== Documentation ==
<h2> Sync </h2>
 
<h2> Developer Tools </h2>
== Mozilla IT and Infrastructure ==
<h2> Foundation </h2>
 
<h2> InstantBird </h2>
== Open Web Apps ==
<p><br />
 
</p>
== BrowserID ==
<p><br />
 
</p>
== Sync ==
 
== Developer Tools ==
 
== Foundation ==
 
== InstantBird ==

Revision as of 20:24, 7 February 2012

This page is for anyone to submit ideas for Google Summer of Code projects with Mozilla for 2012. As it is open to all, it will inevitably contain suggestions of wildly variable quality.

Students: ideas approved by the SoC admins are <a href="Community:SummerOfCode12">here</a>. You can also submit ideas from this page, but they are rather less likely to be accepted. (There's probably a reason they haven't been moved to that page.) You can also submit your own ideas - you don't have to put an idea on this page and get it made official in order to propose it.

How To Make Good Suggestions

Before adding an idea to this list, please consider the following:

  • Be specific. It's hard to understand the impact of, or the size of, vague proposals.
  • Consider size. The student has eight weeks to design, code, test and document the proposal. It needs to fill, but not overfill, that time.
  • Do your research. Support the idea with well-researched links.
  • Don't morph other people's ideas. If you have a related idea, place it next to the existing one, or add a comment.
  • Insert only your own name into the Mentor column, and then only if you are willing to take on the responsibility. If you think the SoC admins won't know you, leave contact details.
  • Check back regularly. The administrators may have questions about your idea that you will need to answer.
  • Know when to give up. If you've added the same idea for the last three years and it hasn't made it to the official page, perhaps you can predict what will happen this time.

Suggestion List

<a href="SummerOfCode">Links to ideas lists from previous years</a>.

Mozilla Platform (Gecko)

Firefox

Firefox Mobile

Boot2Gecko

Calendar

Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments
Improve Invitation support While Lightning supports invitations, there are still some features that are not supported yet and others that are not quite as stable. Possible goals for this project include improving the UI to make sure users are not confused and implementing/adapting code to support previously unsupported features of invitations like delegations or counters. Lightning relies on the <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6047">itip/imip</a> standard for invitations, which is also used by most other calendaring clients and servers, so an interested student should look into these. Related bugs are bug 420516, bug 426532, bug 445982, bug 538043, bug 720263, bug 624332, bug 433848. This is not the final list of bugs to be fixed, just to give you an idea of what can be done here. <a href="mailto:mozilla@kewis.ch">Fallen</a> ludovic?
OS Integration Lightning should improve its integration into the Operating system, most importantly on Windows. If you've ever wanted to doubleclick on an event to open it in Lightning, this project is for you. Note this might be a bit more tricky than it intially sounds, but you will have the chance to contribute to multiple projects, as some parts of this project could possibly be better solved within Thunderbird or even the Mozilla Platform. To get prepared, see the list of <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Calendar&component=OS%20Integration&resolution=---&list_id=2260690">OS Integration bugs</a>, and especially bug 352566. <a href="mailto:mozilla@kewis.ch">Fallen</a> Fallen+someone else?

Thunderbird

SeaMonkey

Camino

NSS (Network Security Services)

Bugzilla

Firefox Support (SUMO)

QA

Documentation

Mozilla IT and Infrastructure

Open Web Apps

BrowserID

Sync

Developer Tools

Foundation

InstantBird



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