Community:SummerOfCode08:Brainstorming

Projects with a confirmed mentor and approved by the Mozilla project SoC administrator will be moved to Community:SummerOfCode08. Potential students should look at that page to find project ideas for which we'd like submissions.

Ground Rules

• 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. Potential mentors sign up here.

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Suggestion List

Last year's ideas: Confirmed, Brainstorming

Firefox/Gecko

Please use this format for submitting ideas.

Title	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Extension: Remote Cookie Storage	A Firefox extension that stores/retrieves cookies on a server instead of locally, allowing cross-machine cookie sharing. Includes a UI to choose which cookies to share. This is similar to Google Browser Sync, but is open-source (including server-side code so users can run their own servers if they like). Privacy-focussed.	Eric H. Jung	Eric H. Jung	How does this relate to Weave? -- Gerv.
Metalink Support	Native support for the Metalink XML format (bug 331979) which lists mirrors and checksums, along with other useful metadata such as mirror location. Listing multiple URLs for a file increases availability while the checksums guarantee integrity and let downloads be repaired automatically. You can also filter downloads by location and other things. Metalink is currently supported by most download managers including DownThemAll!	Ant Bryan

Thunderbird

Title	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Maildir Support	Bug 382876 Implement the possibility to store Thunderbird mails in Maildir format. Storing mails as individual files and using SQLite for the index file should increase data safety.	KAMiKAZOW		The bug number you give is about Calendar. Also, what to do the new Thunderbird team think of this? Reading bugs, bienvenu seemed to think that pluggable storage was the way to go. -- Gerv

Calendar

Title	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

Camino

Title	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

SeaMonkey

Title	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

Bugzilla

Title	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Integrate Bugzilla with a Wiki	Many bug tracking systems have the capability to integrate with a wiki. Bugzilla doesn't. There are plenty of ways anyone could integrate these two types of systems. Bugzilla supports plug-ins as well. Some possible integrations are: Linking from the wiki directly to Bugzilla via a simple tag. Displaying a query on a wiki page, ie blockers for 3.2. Linking to a wiki page from bugzilla and showing designs for more in depth enhancements, perhaps in an iframe? Integrating project, component and other pages into the wiki might be neat. Maybe making a new component/project automatically makes a space in the wiki that shows some basic info about the state of bugs and also has places for the user to enter other info? Users in bugzilla have wiki pages that let them put more info about themselves like their IM or other stuff? This would be a super tight integration so that might want to be avoided due to annoyances in maintenance. Examples from confluence/jira (neither are foss) http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/JIRA+Issues+Macro http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Testplan+Plugins http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/JIRA+Portlet+Macro?focusedCommentId=137265353 I've got to look at other wiki/bug tracking integrations for more ideas. The list is as long as your imagination. Also including Testopia into the mix might make it interesting as well. The solution could be a generalize way of hooking bugzilla into any wiki, or a specific wiki into bugzilla.	Atsushi Shimono & Guy Pyrzak	Max Kanat Alexander & Guy Pyrzak	How complicated do you think this is? Is it really eight weeks work? -- Gerv
A Firefox Extension for Bugzilla	Firefox has many useful extensions that integrate bug trackers into it. There are extensions that integrate task systems into email such as Remember The Milk(RTM). We're interested in a useful way of integrating Bugzilla with Firefox, extra props for integrating it into an email client! Yeah, this one is a bit fuzzy. See Bugxula for more ideas. Since Bugxula has not been worked on in a long time it could pick up from where it left off. It could focus more on finding and reporting bugs since it is probably the 2 main things users do without a full interface. It could also be a whole new think like the RTM extension which appears oh so cutely inside of gmail. Maybe it is an extension that works in both thunderbird and firefox! I'd kinda like to get feedback on places they would like to see this one.	Guy Pyrzak	Max Kanat Alexander & Guy Pyrzak	You need to define better how this proposal relates to Bugxula? Would it reimplement it? Improve it? Do something different? -- Gerv

L10n

Title	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Locale strings verifier	Guidelines - Nearly every extension today provides locales which ship as different languages with the extension. At the moment, where is no tool which can automatically validate the existing locales if all files and string exists. If not every string exists or the files are wrong encoded, the application will only start up with an error message and the user has to uninstall the extension in safe mode. Wanted features: Setting default locale, export of valid ones, warnings if strings equal etc.	Archaeopteryx		This would be a standalone tool run by the developer, and not a part of Firefox/Thunderbird, right? -- Gerv