This page is for anyone to submit ideas for Google Summer of Code projects with Mozilla for 2010. As it is open to all, it will inevitably contain suggestions of wildly variable quality.
Students: ideas approved by the SoC admins are here. 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.
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
Links to ideas lists from previous years.
Mozilla Platform
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| Implement resource packages
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A specification is ready for prototyping resource packages (bug 529208), which provide a backwards-compatible, simple, efficient way to bundle up resources in a single file to make transfers faster and reduce HTTP overhead.
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beltzner
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limi,bz(?)
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need to make sure bz/someone from the platform team can mentor
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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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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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| Built-in Grammar checking
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This project would be divided into three parts :
- A syntax analyser, able o build a semantic tree from a sentence, proceeding by substitutions according to a given set of grammar rules.
- Basic grammar rules and dictionnary for the English language
(At this point, the system should be able to interpret all possible meanings simple well-formed sentence)
- A correction system, built in two parts. First, completing the syntax analyser so that it can "guess" the closest correctly formed sentences when the provided one doesn't match with the rules, and second by verifying that all built trees, therefore structurally correct, don't contain concordance mistakes, etc.
It would probably not be ready for everyday use by the end of the SoC (due to the complexity of natural languages making it a lot of work to transcribe them into substitution rules for tree building) but the language-independant part of the system should be operational.
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Arnaud VIÉ (Unas)
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This could also be implemented into Thunderbird.
Plus, the syntax analyser could be used later as a basis in a translation tool too, when provided with a base of equivalence between words and sentence structures in two languages.
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Thunderbird
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Calendar
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| Improve Email Invitations
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Our Email Invitations have been greatly improved since 0.9, but there are still some remaining regressions and new bugs to be fixed here. Also, it would be swell to implement some of the remaining iTIP/iMIP specs, like COUNTER and delegation.rfc2447 Email Scheduling (rfc2447)
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Fallen
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Simon V. ? Ludovic?
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No confirmed mentor yet
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| Further mozmill tests/improvements
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Merike has done a great job working on Mozmill and I think its a good idea to continue this effort. Mozmill is an automatic testing framework that immitates user actions to check if the application is doing what it is supposed to. The student would be making sure mozmill tests run with our build system (bug 545838) and writing further tests.
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Fallen
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Clint? Merike?
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No confirmed mentor yet
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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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Mobile/Fennec
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L10n
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| Babelzilla on Silme
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Move Babelzilla to Django/Silme platform, improve UX for localizers/authors. Provide version control access for l10n maintainers and web-interface for other people to suggest translations. Allow importing/exporting translations in gettext format.
Consider integration with AMO and implementing bug 427071.
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Tim Babych (tymofiy)
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Axel (Pike), Zbigniew (gandalf)
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Firefox Support (Sumo)
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Rhino
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Mozilla IT Infrastructure
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Labs: Weave
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Labs: Bespin
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