Community:SummerOfCode06
Add your ideas here for Projects for the Google Summer of Code 2006
We will be reviewing ideas posted here the week of 4/17 and putting together proposals the following week. Please note if you are interested in being a Mentor for one of these projects, or suggest someoneone who could serve as mentor. Mentor requirements are here - http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html
Thanks
Chris Hofmann
- Complete Torrent-Integration: [1] (started in last year's SoC)
- Complete Skype-Integration for Thunderbird (started in last year's SoC)
- Work on Venkman to bring it some good updates/bugfixes/new features. Maybe work to do a 1.0 release? (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141097)
- XUL editor plugin for Eclipse that leverages the XULRunner component and JS debugger from the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework to create a XUL UI development tool. (Beltzner 09:31, 17 April 2006 (PDT))
- "Advance the XUL platform" projects (to be defined) e.g. implement <menugroup>, fix menu bugs, etc. Ben 10:38, 17 April 2006 (PDT)
- Multi-threaded (accelerated) Download Manager ([2]) with possible Metalink (Mirrors/P2P/checksums) support.
- Automatically verifying MD5/SHA1 hashes, and optionally PGP signatures, of downloads. When you have downloaded a file, the download manager should try to download filename.md5, filename.sha, filename.asc and run the associated tool on the downloaded file to verify. Mark the entry as red or something in the download manager, and change the Open link to Info link, if the file did not verify. The Info link would open a page explaining what is wrong. It could perhaps have a open or preferably just delete file button. More difficult case would be to get the md5/sha1 signature if it is just embedded on the page where the download link is, but you could try some heuristics...
- UI improvements to DOM inspector... it's currently really tedious to use. Ben 18:06, 18 April 2006 (PDT)
- Enhanced Page Info window (need spec)... I'm willing to mentor this. Ben 18:07, 18 April 2006 (PDT)