Mozilla community members - submit ideas here for 2012 Google Summer of Code projects with Mozilla.
Are you a students looking to apply to SoC with Mozilla? Project ideas formally approved by the Mozilla SoC admins are here. 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 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 the title. If there is no category for your part of Mozilla, add one!
Mozilla Platform (Gecko)
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| Networking Dashboard
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Build a UI for insight into Mozilla Networking. This is really both a gecko and firefox project. Show what connections are active, how fast connections have run in the past, what protocols are in use with protocol specific context information (http versions, spdy, websockets), allow management (e.g. shutdown) of particular connections, and even trigger some diagnostic tests.
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mcmanus plus hopefully a ux sponsor
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Firefox
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Firefox Mobile
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Boot2Gecko
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Calendar
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| Improve Invitation support
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While Lightning supports invitations, there are still some features that are not supported yet and others that are not quite as stable. Possible goals for this project include improving the UI to make sure users are not confused and implementing/adapting code to support previously unsupported features of invitations like delegations or counters. Lightning relies on the itip/imip standard for invitations, which is also used by most other calendaring clients and servers, so an interested student should look into these. Related bugs are bug 420516, bug 426532, bug 445982, bug 538043, bug 720263, bug 624332, bug 433848. This is not the final list of bugs to be fixed, just to give you an idea of what can be done here.
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ludovic?
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Lightning should improve its integration into the Operating system, most importantly on Windows. If you've ever wanted to doubleclick on an event to open it in Lightning, this project is for you. Note this might be a bit more tricky than it intially sounds, but you will have the chance to contribute to multiple projects, as some parts of this project could possibly be better solved within Thunderbird or even the Mozilla Platform. To get prepared, see the list of OS Integration bugs, and especially bug 352566.
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Fallen+someone else?
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Thunderbird
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| Search toolbar
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Thunderbird comes with a powerful search feature. When performing a search, the results appear in a new search tab. This new tab allows you to drill down and filter the results of your search. We would like to expand this search result tab so that users can modify their search query as well. A WIP patch has already been started, and so if the project is completed with time to spare, there are a few other things we can add and rearrange to the search tab to make it better for our users. See bug 719008.
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SeaMonkey
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Camino
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Bugzilla
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Firefox Support (SUMO)
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Documentation
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| Create examples for SVG Reference
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The SVG Reference needs examples! Lots of examples! We need live samples for all the various SVG elements and attributes, examples for how to do cool stuff with SVG in the DOM, etc. The goal would be to have in-line, live SVG samples, with the code and an explanation of how the code works, for every SVG element and attribute.
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Sheppy
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Also talk to Jeremie Patonnier about helping with mentoring.
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| Create examples for HTML and CSS references
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The HTML and CSS references on MDN need examples. While there are some here and there, someone needs to go through and ensure that every HTML element has good examples that cover a variety of use cases and interesting capabilities, and that every CSS property has good coverage as well. These would include live examples with the code and an explanation of how it works.
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Sheppy
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Teoli?
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Mozilla IT and Infrastructure
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Identity
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Sync
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Developer Tools
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| Slide Drive Improvements
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Slide Drive (https://github.com/dseif/slide-drive) combines the deck.js HTML5 slideshow package with Popcorn.js. It was originally developed for Software Carpentry, but would be useful to many other people who want to move off PowerPoint and recorded video. Many enhancements are possible, the most important being accessibility support.
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greg
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Release Engineering
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| Tryserver automation improvements
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We currently have a trychooser syntax which allows developers to customize what they'd like to test their patch with (out of over 200 build & test options) - this syntax can use some improvements to allow for even more granular control and also needs a web-driven interface as well as logic that would let users specify a repo (mozilla-hosted), a custom test package, and much more. Bugs include try_enhancement tracking and most importantly bug 625463
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Lukas Blakk
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Lukas Blakk
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useful skills include some webdev and python programming
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Instantbird
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