Community:SummerOfCode09:Brainstorming
This page is for submitting ideas for Summer of Code projects for 2009. Therefore, it will inevitably contain suggestions of wildly variable quality. Ideas approved by the SoC admins are here.
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.
- Check back regularly. The administrators may have questions about your idea that you will need to answer.
Suggestion List
Last year's ideas: Confirmed, Brainstorming
Mozilla Platform
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| Web pages over rsync | A lot of web pages today are dynamic and so uncacheable, even though large parts of them are the same between requests. The rsync protocol is a great way of sending the deltas between two similar files in a small number of bytes. tridge has done a proof of concept, using proxies and librsync, for caching everything and using rsync to send deltas instead of complete pages when things change a bit. This has the potential to transform the web experience for users on slow connections. The project would be to fix up his proxy, and make a matching Firefox extension which together would form a proof of concept. | Gerv | I hope to get tridge to mentor or co-mentor, but haven't heard back |
Firefox
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Thunderbird
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Calendar
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Camino
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SeaMonkey
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Bugzilla
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| Better Bugzilla Helper | 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. | Gerv | Gerv |
L10n
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Firefox Support (Sumo)
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Rhino
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