Community:SummerOfCode17:Brainstorming

Mozilla community members - submit proposals here for 2017 Google Summer of Code projects with Mozilla. (If this page looks empty, it's because accepted ideas have already been transferred to the official list.) The absolute last deadline for submitting ideas in time to help us get accepted by Google is February 9th.

Are you a student looking to apply to SoC with Mozilla? Your first stop should be the official list of ideas. This page is full of weird and whacky ideas, some of which are still on here for a reason - it could be that they are not properly defined, the wrong size, or don't have a mentor. That makes them less likely to get accepted. You can, of course, also submit your own ideas - you don't have to put an idea on this page and get it 'made official' in order to send in a proposal for it.

How To Write A Good Project Proposal

Before adding an proposal 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 who you are, 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

Here are the ideas lists from previous years.

Proposals can be in almost any part of the Mozilla project - don't be fooled by the "Code" in "Summer of Code". If there is no category below for your part of Mozilla, add one!

Mozilla Platform (Gecko)

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
TaskCluster Improvements	(placeholder)	Backend (Node) JS, Github	:dustin	:dustin	(will be something from TaskCluster/Round Tuit Box)

Firefox

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
about:telemetry redesign	about:telemetry is present on all builds of Firefox as a way for users to view the data being stored and sent via Telemetry. It was built before Firefox had multi-process Telemetry and without a clear design. This has resulted in a confusing HTML UI and barely-comprehensible JS.	webtech (HTML+CSS+JS) and Design	:chutten	:chutten

Firefox Developer Tools

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Firefox for Android

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Thunderbird

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Instantbird

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Calendar

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SeaMonkey

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Bugzilla

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Firefox Support (SUMO)

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QA

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

Automation & Tools

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
JS static analysis	Bring some static analysis in our Firefox Javascript code	Javascript experience, FLOW(?)	Sylvestre	same
C++ static analysis	Add new checkers specific to our base code	Strong C++ experience, clang	Sylvestre	Andi
JSON in Sqlite	Query JSON Documents stored in Sqlite	Database, SQL, Python	Kyle Lahnakoski	Kyle Lahnakoski	Details

Documentation

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Mozilla Developer Network

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Mozilla IT and Infrastructure

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Sync / Services

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Developer Tools

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Add-on SDK

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Foundation

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OpenArt

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Release Engineering

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Emscripten

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Rust

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Rust + WebAssembly showcase	Rust and WebAssembly are going to be a great pair. Design and implement a simple and attractive web application, in Rust, that demonstrates the power of Rust on the web. Make fixes to upstream projects as necessary. Write a blog post about it.	Rust, web development	brson	brson	cc https://users.rust-lang.org/t/compiling-to-the-web-with-rust-and-emscripten/7627
Rust dashboard updates	Update rusty-dash.com to include additional metrics important to the project. This tool is vital to the day-to-day management of Rust, but it needs some dedicated attention to fulfill its promise.	Rust	brson	brson	Follow on work to https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/the-rust-project-needs-much-better-visibility-into-important-metrics/3367
Rust reproducible builds	Make the Rust build process produce the identical binaries when run with identical configurations. This improves the security of the Rust ecosystem by allowing others to double-check the official Rust builds	Rust, compilers, systems programming	brson	brson	https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/verifying-rustc-releases-with-reproducible-builds/4502
Abstract the Rust standard library	The Rust standard library is very portable, but can be very, very portable. Refactor the standard library to pull out a platform abstraction layer.	Moderate Rust experience	brson	brson	https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/refactoring-std-for-ultimate-portability/4301
Rust cross-platform showcase project	Rust is very portable. Create a single showcase demo project that compiles for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, wasm, and microcontrollers. Use real crates to accomplish some real task. Set up CI for all platforms on Travis. To be used as a teaching tool and for regression testing.	Moderate Rust experience	brson	brson
rustc micro-optimization bonanza	Just go hog wild finding microoptimizations in rustc. Write a blog post bragging about it.	Performance optimization	brson	brson
Rust-specific benchmark suite	Today Rust uses perf.rust-lang.org to track _compile time_ performance, but nothing to track _runtime_ performance. Work with the Rust developers to create a benchmark suite specific to Rust.	Programming	brson	brson, nrc?

Servo

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Security Engineering

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Localization

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Build system

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Security Assurance

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WADI

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Mozilla Science Lab

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MozVR

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Connected Devices

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