Community:SummerOfCode14: Difference between revisions

This page lists all the [[SummerOfCode|Google Summer of Code]] 2014 projects with confirmed mentors, and which have been approved by the SoC administrator. New suggestions can be made on [[Community:SummerOfCode14:Brainstorming|the Brainstorming page]]. Do not edit this page yourself; contact Florian for edits.

In addition to the specifically-named projects below, we have also tagged a number of bugs in Bugzilla with the keyword [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=student-project&resolution=--- student-project]. However, as the idea of a "student project" is wider than just the Summer of Code, students looking through the list will need to decide whether any particular bug listed there is actually the right size and scope for Summer of Code.

| [https://mozillians.org/u/gasolin/ Fred Lin]

[https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/gweng/ Greg Weng]

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| Patrick Cloke

| IRC, XMPP, Twitter and Yahoo have already been implemented in JavaScript and should not be considered; Some base code exists for OSCAR (AIM/ICQ); SIP, Bonjour and OSCAR are probably the most wanted protocols.

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Depending on remaining time and student experience, adding performance tests to Lightning would be a bonus.

| Javascript; Python and make for perf tests

| A student applying for this project should be able to work with large codebases. Getting familiar with the Lightning source code early improves chances of being accepted. Look for Fallen on irc.mozilla.org / #calendar if you need help getting started.

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* Turn the CalDAV calendar into a cache-only provider (no bug yet)

| Javascript, SQL,  

| As these changes will partially require some migration steps, it is important to write unit tests for the code produced during the Summer of Code. Not all of the mentioned bugs need to be fixed for passing mid-terms and finals, please read through the bugs and consult with mentor or reporter with your suggestion when applying.

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* udpate the caldav provider to the latest spec chunk by chunk

| Javascript, SQL,  

| The work involved will be significantly more and would require deep analysis of the calendar code base. However, the end-product would bring cheers to a lot of users and end complaints of lightning not functioning with a particular server. As a start dive into the RFC and the buglist to find out some of the easy cases which can be solved to gauge the difficulty of the project.

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| [https://mozillians.org/u/glob/ Byron Jones]

| [https://mozillians.org/u/glob/ Byron Jones]

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| Migrate from YUI2 to YUI3. {{bug|453268}}

| [https://mozillians.org/u/glob/ Byron Jones]

| Yahoo [https://code.launchpad.net/~evan-goer/bugzilla-yui3/yui3 started the work] however progress has stalled.

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See meta bug at {{bug|916295}}; actionable bugs for this project are {{bug|916265}} and {{bug|886570}}.

| JavaScript, Python

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| Mochitest failure investigator

To build this tool we need to take a given test failure and work backwards to find its failure point.  Starting with the given test failure, we need to start a fresh instance of the browser/profile and verify the single test case passes on it's own.  Then we can repeat this process by adding more tests for each run until we find the failure.  The most logical way to add tests will be per directory as each directory usually contains tests of similiar behavior.  This would be added into the mochitest python harness.  Doing so will give people the ability to quickly run this locally and with a small adjustment to our Try server (passing in the correct command line arguments), we can run this on production machines.

| JavaScript, Python

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| Having {apt-get,yum} install rust

| deb packaging / Rust (LLVM appreciated)

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| Main issues: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/RustPackaging/Bootstrap & https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/4259. Will focus on Debian/Ubuntu first

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! Comments

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| [https://mozillians.org/u/jdm/ Josh Matthews]

| [https://mozillians.org/u/jdm/ Josh Matthews]

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| {{mozillian|gueroJeff|Jeff Beatty}}

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* [[Intellego|Project wiki]]

* [[Intellego/Meetings/Status|Weekly status meetings]]

* IRC: {{IRC|intellego}}

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| Java Script, knowledge of Firefox add-ons

| [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/psiinon/ Simon Bennetts]

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== Open(Art) ==

| Solid javascript. Understanding of Dataflow / Flow-Based programming.

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