Community:SummerOfCode11:Brainstorming
This page is for anyone to submit ideas for Google Summer of Code projects with Mozilla for 2011. 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.) You can also submit your own ideas - you don't have to put an idea on this page and get it made official in order to propose it.
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
| Title | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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| SVG/MathML clipboard and search features |
Goal: implement clipboard and search features for SVG images and MathML formulas. Currently, Mozilla lacks support for searching or copying text in SVG. MathML has these features for simple text but it would be more useful to preserve the mathematical structure when copying formulas. The MathML3 recommandation contains a new clipboard specification that should help to implement interoperable features. As possible extensions to this work, one can implement copying SVG images or the related feature of pasting SVG/MathML in the Mozilla editor. |
Frédéric Wang |
Firefox
| Title="A page loading progress bar with bandwidth usage data counter" | Details - with links as appropriate:
I recommend this as an improvement to the existing version of Firefox
beta release. Add the page loading bar at the bottom of each page as
well as place the user's internet bandwidth usage counter beside it.
This data counter will display the usage for each webpage used in one
browsing session.
The data counter should be merged into a chart depicting the total
webpage usage out of the user's internet plan's bandwidth.
The features can be embedded into a jetpack.
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript languages are needed.
Source of programming languages:
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developing_add-ons
Source of Firefox-plugin usage out of CPU usage (for my reference on
OS resource usage for my proposal):
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Monitoring_plugins
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Reporter Sawaiz | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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Thunderbird
| Title | Details - | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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| Better integration with Windows 7 taskbar (Jumplist) | As in title. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494138. | :Libras2909 | :squib (maybe?) | All dependencies are satisfied |
Calendar
| Title | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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| Full Offline Support | The Mozilla Calendar Project supports experimental offline support but only for reading your events while offline. While this is great if you want to look at your calendar while away from the internet, it still hinders productivity. One of the top 5 most wanted bugs in the Calendar product is adding support for also changing events when offline and writing them back to the calendar server when network connectivity returns.
A student fixing this bug will have to develop a performant synchronization mechanism that is capable of applying changes done offline to remote calendars when going back online. This needs to be implemented general enough to work with our existing calendar providers and with extensibility in mind. There are at least two categories of calendar servers here, those allowing to upload single events (i.e CalDAV) and those requiring to upload the full calendar (i.e webdav/ics). This needs to be kept in mind when going back online, since it may be needed to first download the full calendar before applying the changes. When calendar items are written back to the server, conflicts might occur. The student is responsible for providing the user with understandable UI to resolve those conflicts. The dialog should be more detailed than the current CalDAV dialog that just allows discarding changes or overwriting the server item. The dialog should provide good balance between making it easy for beginner users to understand and allowing power users to find out details about the conflict. Technologies the Student should have experience in include database design, (preferably experience with sqlite), advanced javascript, basic understanding of XPCOM and either experience with XUL or HTML. Knowledge of the Mozilla Platform is not a must, but makes it easier to get started with coding. Note this project can prove to be very ambitious due to the amount of conceptual work and research needed. A small amount of code is already attached to bug 380060, but it should be evaluated if this solution is the best w.r.t our existing architecture and the performance requirements in a synchronization scenario. |
Philipp | Philipp Kewisch (mozilla@kewis.ch, Fallen on moznet / #calendar) |
Camino
See the Camino Summer of Code page for project suggestions.
SeaMonkey
| Title | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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| Score-based filtering | You can filter on quite some terms, but you can't weigh them. A scoring system will allow a much finer control, eg. it would be just a property score with a range of maybe 1..1000, along with some new conditions
[is ]
[isn't ]
Score [is lower than ][\/] [<value in range>]
[is lower than or equal to ]
[is greater than ]
[is greater than or equal to]
and actions [Increment score by] [Decrement score by][\/] [<value in range>] [Set score to ] Each message would start with a score of 500 before filters get applied. This feature will require MailNews Core C++ hacking. Related: |
Karsten "Mnyromyr" Düsterloh | Karsten "Mnyromyr" Düsterloh |
NSS (Network Security Services)
| Title | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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Bugzilla
| Title | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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| Tag Cloud | Feature: means for quickly grasping a larger bugzilla instance as well as for data mining.
Could involve tags, keywords, or even probably configurable arbitrary fields. |
Michael Shigorin (no student) | There seems to exist HTML-TagCloud module. |
Mobile/Fennec
| Title | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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Firefox Support (Sumo)
| Title | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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Mozilla IT Infrastructure
| Title | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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Mozilla Services (Sync, Identity, etc)
| Title | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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Developer Tools
| Title | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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Drumbeat/Batucada
Any hacking projects connected to a Drumbeat project or Batucada.
| Title | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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