This page lists all the Google Summer of Code 2010 projects with confirmed mentors, and which have been approved by the SoC administrator. New suggestions can be made on the Brainstorming page.
Potential students: you may choose from the list below, but you do not have to. Feel free to submit a proposal for your own idea. However, before you do so, see the guidelines for good ideas. You can also discuss your ideas or application in the #developers channel on IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org/#developers .
In addition to the specifically-named projects below, we have also tagged a number of bugs in Bugzilla with the keyword 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.
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Mozilla Platform
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| Improve Cairo performance to match Skia
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There are a number of areas where Skia outperforms Cairo. Find them, and improve Cairo to match or exceed Skia's performance.
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jrmuizel
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jrmuizel
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| Add retained paths to cairo/SVG/D2D
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We could speed up SVG rendering in many situations by adding Cairo API to reuse a path multiple times, and supporting this API directly in cairo backends where this feature exists in the underlying platform (e.g. D2D). Think "rotating tiger head".
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roc
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jrmuizel
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| Create a JPEG XR decoding library
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JPEG XR gives us better compression and other useful features like HDR and alpha channels. The library should be as similar to libjpeg as possible.
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roc
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jrmuizel
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| Improved add-on packaging system
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Main article: XPI v2 – Making Extension Development Easier
The idea is to create a new packaging system for add-ons that makes it much easier to get started with add-on development. There are 3 parts to this idea:
- Merge install.rdf and chrome.manifest into a single manifest file in JSON format.
- Change the way chrome URLs map to actual files, in order to allow a more flexible add-on structure.
- (optional?) Optimize the installation process for performance.
The old system would need to continue to work with the new one.
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jorgev (Add-ons team)
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jorgev
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Firefox
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| Multitouch simulator
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A simulation framework would allow developers who do not own a touchscreen device to program websites using the touch APIs. The simulator would be able to run scripted sequences of events, e.g. "move finger 1 from point A to point B and move finger 2 down", and possibly record events too if on an enabled device.
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Felipe
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Felipe
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This framework could be a standalone JS package, a jQuery plugin or a Firebug plugin.
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Thunderbird
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| Implement pluggable mail store
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See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Pluggable_Mail_Stores We have someone signed up to do maildir, but it would be interesting to see a sqlite implementation, and we'll probably need help with the core code and perhaps the mail dir impl.
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David Bienvenu
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David Bienvenu
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| Add Quicklook support for attachments
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457546
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Libras2909 (irc: Libras2909 #nus)
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bwinton
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This would save MacOSX time skimming through attachments. Thus it would encourage more MacOSx users to move to Thunderbird. Moreover, there has been a lot of Quicklook plugin supports for displaying several different file types. [1]. Thus all we have to do is implementing a way to allow Finder to get the attachment from Thunderbird for display purpose.
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Calendar
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| Hooks / stubs mechanisms for Mozilla Lightning + Improve event/tasks alarms support
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Subproject #1 - Hooks / stubs mechanisms for Mozilla Lightning
The goal behind this project is to add extension points to Lightning to
facilitate extension developers that would like to provide tight
integration between Lightning and their groupware of choice. For
example, extension points could be defined to allow full access control
list (ACL) support in Lightning. The proper read, write, modify (and
others) checks would be done in Lightning but the results of those would
come from an extension providing the right responses based on input
criteria. Other stubs could be defined for handling various integration
aspects, like calendar names, colors, calendars creation/deletion,
delegation, subscriptions using a server-side search operations and so
on. The SOGo Integrator and Connector extensions are good examples of
what extension points were needed when developing those extensions.
Subproject #2 - Improve event/tasks alarms support
Getting reminded when an event is about to occur or when a task's due
date is close is critical for most users. This can get quite complex
when recurring events or tasks are used or when remote calendars are
used as alarms should be calendar-user agent (CUA) specific. Also,
proper handling of past alarms should be done by Lightning. This project
is about providing Lightning with one of the best events/tasks alarms
implementation out there which handle all corner-cases and provide users
with configuration options that would best suit their needs.
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Fallen
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Ludovic Marcotte
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| Improved automated UI testing for Lightning
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Mozmill is a UI Automation tool for the Mozilla Platform. Calendar
already has a set of Mozmill tests for some functional areas but these
are not run as part of the build process where they would provide useful
feedback to developers. You would be integrating existing tests into
build process as well as writing further tests for areas not covered
yet. These include testing calendar preferences, display of tasks in
different views, conversion between tasks and events, possibly also
keyboard shortcuts.
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Fallen
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Merike Sell
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Camino
See the Camino Summer of Code 2010 page for project suggestions.
SeaMonkey
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| Weave Sync engines for tabs and mailnews status
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Weave Sync is Mozilla's mechanism for synchronizing different installs of Firefox and SeaMonkey.
This project should adapt the existing Firefox tabs engine to work with SeaMonkey, and implement an engine for mailnews status, e.g. read feed entries and newsgroup posts.
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KaiRo
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KaiRo
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The tabs engine is a good learning/entry step, the mailnews status is the actual goal.
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Bugzilla
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| Better Bugzilla Helper
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The current Bugzilla Helper was great for its time, but other Bugzillas have done their own step-by-step versions since which are easier to use. And people have had good ideas, like "here's a screenshot of a Thunderbird window - click on where you think the problem is" and so on. Someone needs to research what others have done, write a plan for a much better simple bug filing system, get it discussed and approved in the community, and build it.
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Gerv
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Gerv
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| Social Bugzilla Extension
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An extension that would collect stats about users and show them as part of a the user info display (in comments; assignee field etc). This system would allow new and veteran users understand who they are talking to and perhaps make bugzilla more "human". The system would identify users who are new to filing bugs, new to making patches, or might be cronic dup filers. It would also let people know how active users are. To see more about this idea see my blog post here http://guy-pyrzak.blogspot.com/2010/03/ideas-for-user-stats-to-gether-for-more.html. We could also implement a "points" system that would let admins create a formula based on the values we collect to show information. This data could also be added to a webservice to be available to other systems to scrape.
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pyrzak
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pyrzak
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This could be sliced into multiple parts and extended to include information about activity on projects and components
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| Shortcuts Extension
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An extension to support keyboard shortcuts all over Bugzilla
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pyrzak
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pyrzak
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| Tagging Exension
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This would be an experiment more than a final concept. Add tagging in all the varous forms people have talked about to Bugzilla.
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pyrzak
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pyrzak
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This is kinda a hard one so I would be hesitant for a newbie to take this one on, but it would be great for a veteran of SoC or someone who really understands tagging methods.
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NSS (Network Security Services)
Mobile/Fennec
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| Add new automated tests to test the Fennec front end
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Fennec has very little automation that tests the UI and we need to get some basic coverage on all the pieces. Here is a bug outlining some features and areas with specific test cases: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553474. These tests will cover the whole front end and act as a new standard for developers to model new test cases after when modifying or adding new features.
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Aditya Rao
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Joel Maher
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The test would be most likely related to bookmarks, tabs, preferences, alerts, panning and zooming. This benefits Mozilla by giving a better testing coverage each day for the mobile browsers. Currently testing is done on lower level stuff, but not the front end. This would primarily be in xul and js code.
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| Automate Fennec Performance Tests
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Fennec currently has two tests that test the performance of the mobile browser. New set of test will test other features like awesome bar, new tab load, setting preferences etc.
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Aditya Rao
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Joel Maher
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This would be a great benefit to Mozilla as it would help set better goals for overall performance. This would primarily be in xul and js code.
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L10n
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Firefox Support (Sumo)
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Rhino
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| Complete ECMAScript edition 5 implementation (spec, presentation) in Rhino JavaScript
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Implement ES5 strict mode and the remaining features of JavaScript 1.8 (including generator expressions) to help release Rhino 1.8 Release 1.
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Norris Boyd
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Norris Boyd (norrisboyd[at]gmail.com)
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Mozilla IT Infrastructure
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Labs: Weave
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Labs: Bespin
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