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| Firefox Performance Dashboard
| This project would implement the dashboard described in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1132498 bug 1132498]. Collecting the memory and CPU usage of addons and webpages and displaying it in a fashion that shows bad actors would be valuable for power users.
| HTML, CSS, JavaScript
| [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jdm/ jdm]
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== Firefox Developer Tools ==
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| Python library and Sublime Text plugin for Firefox Developer Tools
| Develop a Python library that can use the Firefox [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Remote_Debugging_Protocol Remote Debugging Protocol] to interface with Firefox from an external text editor, and create a plugin for Sublime Text to showcase the capabilities of the library. An old [https://github.com/paulrouget/firefox-remote-styleEditors prototype] is already available and can serve as a starting point for further development.
| JavaScript, Python
| [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/past/ past]
| [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/past/ past]
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| Contact Blacklist
| {{bug|1133501}} Implement a blacklist to prevent specified contacts from calling or messaging the user.
| HTML, CSS, JS
| [mailto:yvtheja@gmail.com Vishnu Teja (:ythej)]
| [mailto:dsherk@mozilla.com Doug Sherk (:drs)]
| Already assigned to [mailto:yvtheja@gmail.com Vishnu Teja (:ythej)]
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| Needs a mentor -- florian
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| Secure email UI
| Secure email UI
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| jcranmer
| jcranmer
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| This may be too large a task; narrowing focus could be useful
| Summer of Code is about coding, not about UX work; asking students to do UX work often leads to disappointing results -- florian. This may be too large a task; narrowing focus could be useful.
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| Mailbox-to-maildir converter
| Integrated pdf.js support in thunderbird (bug 810815)
| Mailbox and Maildir are two alternative on-disk storage formats for email messages. Thunderbird currently uses Mailbox, but wants to use Maildir. Hence the need for a converter. This is one of the last critical pieces blocking moving away from mbox-style mailboxes. See {{bug|856087}}.
| Firefox ships with integrade PDF viewing capabilities using pdf.js. This functionality is not present in Thunderbird yet but would obviously be useful.
| JavaScript, C++
| JavaScript
| jcranmer
| mkmelin
| probably rkent
| ?
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| Unclear about how much work it is.
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| Alternate protocol for mailnews folders
| Thunderbird has long-term plans to implement a variety of mail and mail-like protocols to be managed as mailnews folders. An existing addon (SkinkGlue) exists to provide the glue for this. Implement one other protocol, which might be Twitter, Fastmail's JMAP, or Calendar events & tasks
| Javascript
| rkent
| rkent and, depending on protocol, a chat guy (clokep?), brong from Fastmail, or Fallen
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| Infinite scroll
| Add additional messages from the logs on-demand as the user scrolls up/down. Old messages should be removed when no longer needed, while not breaking any existing features.
| JavaScript, XUL, CSS
| nhnt11
| nhnt11 + ???
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| Introducing Calendar Accounts
| Keyboard Accessibility for Calendar
| Traditionally our calendar extension is organized into a list of calendars, each calendar being implemented by a “provider”, for example local storage or using the CalDAV protocol. The service to manage these calendars maintains a simple list, the entries have no connection to each other.
| [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242112 bug 242112] Make Calendar keyboard-accessible. Keyboard actions to be added for navigation through various calendar elements and allow for alternative keyboard actions for point-and-click options.
Some calendar providers would greatly benefit from being able to group calendars into accounts, for example free-busy lookups are usually per-server operations and not per-calendar. It would also open the door for some great new features that have been postponed because they can be implemented cleaner with the notion of accounts.
| Javascript, XUL
| XUL, CSS, JavaScript
| [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/babhishek21/ babhishek21]
| [mailto:mozilla@kewis.ch Fallen]
| [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kewisch/ Fallen]
| [mailto:mozilla@kewis.ch Fallen]
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| [[Media:Calendar-gsoc2015-calmgr.pdf|Click here for a detailed project description]]
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| Resource Booking Improvements
| The Lightning extension has a dialog for inviting attendees to an event, which also shows availability information. Albeit not very obvious, it also allows booking resources and rooms. To improve this experience we would like users to be able to pick rooms and resources in a way that they don't need to remember the room address and quickly see which rooms and resources exist and are available around the proposed time of the event.
| XUL, CSS, JavaScript
| [mailto:mozilla@kewis.ch Fallen]
| [mailto:mozilla@kewis.ch Fallen]
| [[Media:Calendar-gsoc2015-resourcebooking.pdf|Click here for a detailed project description]]
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! Performance Alerts Release Management Toolchain
|Treeherder for mobile
! This GSOC project will deliver functionality of detecting alerts as they merge between branches.  This is mostly important for regressions, but should also include improvements.  We generate thousands of performance alerts every year, and we need a way to look at the high level of what is concerning while having the ability to drill down and understand what small details make up the bigger problems. This depends on us seeing these regression when the code was originally introduced and action being taken to file a bug.  In many cases we have preferences that turn features on and off which will have an affect on the alerts that we care about.  The target here is a release manager can go to a dashboard, and see the state of the release (most important after uplifting code) and get a list of bugs that are of interest.  
|Threeherder is a tool that allows to monitor test and build results generated by the gecko CI system.
 
The goal of this project is to build a simplified version of Treeherder, targeted to a mobile audience.
This will be integrating a system into TreeHerder to store alerts and allow graphs of the data to be annotated.  There will be an API so alert can be generated from other sources and managed by other tools as well.
The data is already available through a restful API.
 
The mobile UI should allow to see if a push has failures and eventually drill down to identify which job failed on which platform.
! Python, AngularJS, SQL, Javascript
|Good knowledge of JavaScript and CSS. Previous experience with angularjs would be beneficial, but it's not needed.
! Joel Maher
| mdoglio
! Joel Maher, Will LaChance
| mdoglio
! The impact here is the ability for developers and release managers to see the performance impact of their changes while helping us track this.
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! Retry failures in automation and provide annotations for intermittent failures vs real failures
! Of the thousands of unitests which are run for each platform and each push we find many intermittent failures.  This is a pain point for developers when they test their code on try server.  Now that we have TreeHerder, it isn't much work to automatically annotate jobs as intermittent or a regression/failure.  In mochitest we have --bisect-chunk which will retry the given test and determine if it is an intermittent or a real regression.  The goal here is to do this automatically for all jobs on try server.  Jobs will still turn orange.  With the outcome of this project failures would need to have a different view in the UI.
! Python, Javascript
! Joel Maher
! Joel Maher
! This will build off an existing set of tools while helping us bridge the gap towards a much better review and automated landing of patches system. In the short term, this will aid in developers who see failures and either do multiple pushes, many retriggers, or just ignore them- in summary we will not need to worry as much about wasting resources related to intermittents.
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! Unittest sanitizer
! With our thousands of test files, there are hundreds that have dangerous api calls which result in leftover preferences, permissions, and timing issues.  A lot of work has been done here, we need to fix tests and expand our work on these resources to all our tests.  In addition to cleaning up dangerous test code, we need to understand our tests and how reliable they are.  We need to build tools that will allow us to determine how safe and reliable our tests are individually and as part of a suite.  Upon completion of this project we should have the majority of tests cleaned up, and a toolchain that can be easily run and generate a report on how stable each test is.
! Python, Javascript
! Joel Maher
! Joel Maher
! The impact this has is helping us cleanup our tests to reduce intermittents and give us tools to write better tests and understand our options for running tests in different configurations.
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| Define, test, and publish json hyperschemas for all release engineering APIs
| We have several APIs (e.g. clobberer, buildapi, mozpool, modern mapper, slaveapi, ...) but have no central standardised way of defining them, publishing them, documenting them, or sharing them. A cool project would be to use json hyperschema (see e.g. https://brandur.org/elegant-apis) to define all our apis, and have a framework for auto testing them, auto-documenting them, even potentially auto-generating client libraries for them e.g. in python, and auto-publishing the schemas to a central location for reference. Another interesting option might be using http://swagger.io/.
| json, json hyperschema, solid programming skills, enthusiasm, code generation, web interface design
| [mailto:pmoore@mozilla.com Pete Moore]
| [mailto:pmoore@mozilla.com Pete Moore]
| Some good starting points:
* http://spacetelescope.github.io/understanding-json-schema/ (for json schema)
* https://brandur.org/elegant-apis (for json hyper schema)
* http://json-schema.org/
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| Speculative HTML parsing
| Servo's [https://github.com/servo/html5ever/ HTML parser] currently blocks whenever it needs to execute JS code (eg. when <script> tags are encountered in a page). We want to split the HTML parsing code into two threads, one of which can continue parsing the rest of the HTML source [http://www.dorothybrowser.com/portfolio/parallel-parser/ speculatively] while the other is busy executing JS; once the second is finished, the parser can use the result of the first thread's efforts to improve page load performance.
| Prior [http://www.rust-lang.org/ Rust] experience valuable. Familiarity with HTML.
| [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jdm/ jdm]
| [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kmcallister/ kmc]
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== Webmaker ==
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| AWS cli tool for deploys/rapid prototyping
| Help build/explore options for a heroku-like cli tool for rapid prototyping and development in the Webmaker ecosystem that interfaces with our AWS infrastructure.
| nodejs
| [[User:k88hudson|k88hudson]]
| [[User:k88hudson|k88hudson]]
| clokep: There are tools that let you interact with AWS on the command line. I'm unsure if they do exactly what you want and doubt they're written in node (the [https://github.com/aws/aws-cli official one] is written on top of their [https://github.com/boto/boto Python library]).
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| Developer experience for Cordova Android/Firefox OS
| Help fix bugs, improve documentation, learning resources, and developer experience for build tools, tests, and deployment of Cordova Firefox OS / Android projects
| javascript, nodejs
| [[User:k88hudson|k88hudson]]
| [[User:k88hudson|k88hudson]]
| clokep: I'm unsure what this is, it sounds like "Work on Cordova Android/Firefox OS and fix some documentation for 3 months". We like GSoC projects to have a specific goal in mind. Maybe this just needs a bit of rewording though.
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| Webmaker.app for iOS
| Develop an iOS version of our Cordova application (currently implemented for Android/Firefox OS)
| javascript, nodejs
| [[User:k88hudson|k88hudson]]
| [[User:k88hudson|k88hudson]]
| clokep: I have no idea how Webmaker.app works, but does this not need any iOS specific development skills (e.g. ObjectiveC)?
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| Prototype in-app payments for Webmaker.app
| Users can create mobile web apps with Webmaker.app, but what if they could accept payments? Explore options like paypal, stripe, etc. and develop a prototype using Cordova/web tech.
| javascript, nodejs, css, html
| [[User:k88hudson|k88hudson]]
| [[User:k88hudson|k88hudson]]
| clokep: I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the final end goal of this: is it simply to have a prototype that includes, e.g., PayPal? What will that help us do?
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| [http://www.mozillascience.org/projects/contributorship-badges Contributorship Badges] Visualizations
| Create a series of javascript snippets that authors and publishers can use to display authorship badges on their sites. Badges will be issued using PaperBadger -- a service using Open Badges to issue badges to an ORCID and paper DOI. Exploring the use of digital badges for crediting contributors to scholarly papers for their work.
| javascript, PaperBadger API (in development)
| [[User:Abby|Abby]]
| [[User:Abby|Abby]]
| As the research environment becomes more digital, we want to test how we can use this medium to help bring transparency and credit for individuals in the publication process. This work is a collaboration with publishers BioMed Central (BMC) and the Public Library of Science (PLoS); the biomedical research foundation, The Wellcome Trust; the software and technology firm Digital Science; the registry of unique researcher identifiers, ORCID; and the Mozilla Science Lab.
Background Reading: http://mozillascience.org/contributorship-badges-a-new-project/
http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2014/11/could-digital-badges-clarify-roles-co-authors
http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-credit-where-credit-is-due-1.15033
Note for clokep: I removed dependent projects if that's what's holding this project back in brainstorming?
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Latest revision as of 16:00, 3 March 2015

Mozilla community members - submit proposals here for 2015 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 20th.

Are you a students 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

Firefox

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments
Firefox Performance Dashboard This project would implement the dashboard described in bug 1132498. Collecting the memory and CPU usage of addons and webpages and displaying it in a fashion that shows bad actors would be valuable for power users. HTML, CSS, JavaScript jdm

Firefox Developer Tools

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments
Python library and Sublime Text plugin for Firefox Developer Tools Develop a Python library that can use the Firefox Remote Debugging Protocol to interface with Firefox from an external text editor, and create a plugin for Sublime Text to showcase the capabilities of the library. An old prototype is already available and can serve as a starting point for further development. JavaScript, Python past past

Firefox for Android

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Firefox OS / Boot2Gecko

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments
Contact Blacklist bug 1133501 Implement a blacklist to prevent specified contacts from calling or messaging the user. HTML, CSS, JS Vishnu Teja (:ythej) Doug Sherk (:drs) Already assigned to Vishnu Teja (:ythej)

Thunderbird

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments
Performance testing Add and deploy a performance testsuite for Thunderbird to catch regressions in areas such as startup, message search, folder display, message display, etc. JavaScript, Python, preferably some performance analysis experience jcranmer ? Needs a mentor -- florian
Secure email UI Develop good interfaces for key management and illustrating the security levels of messages succinctly, preferably applicable to both S/MIME and OpenPGP. Strong UX experience; JS, XUL or HTML; crypto background advantageous jcranmer ? Summer of Code is about coding, not about UX work; asking students to do UX work often leads to disappointing results -- florian. This may be too large a task; narrowing focus could be useful.
Integrated pdf.js support in thunderbird (bug 810815) Firefox ships with integrade PDF viewing capabilities using pdf.js. This functionality is not present in Thunderbird yet but would obviously be useful. JavaScript mkmelin ? Unclear about how much work it is.

Instantbird

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments
Infinite scroll Add additional messages from the logs on-demand as the user scrolls up/down. Old messages should be removed when no longer needed, while not breaking any existing features. JavaScript, XUL, CSS nhnt11 nhnt11 + ???

Calendar

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments
Keyboard Accessibility for Calendar bug 242112 Make Calendar keyboard-accessible. Keyboard actions to be added for navigation through various calendar elements and allow for alternative keyboard actions for point-and-click options. Javascript, XUL babhishek21 Fallen

SeaMonkey

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

NSS (Network Security Services)

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Bugzilla

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Firefox Support (SUMO)

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

QA

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Automation & Tools

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments
Treeherder for mobile Threeherder is a tool that allows to monitor test and build results generated by the gecko CI system.

The goal of this project is to build a simplified version of Treeherder, targeted to a mobile audience. The data is already available through a restful API. The mobile UI should allow to see if a push has failures and eventually drill down to identify which job failed on which platform.

Good knowledge of JavaScript and CSS. Previous experience with angularjs would be beneficial, but it's not needed. mdoglio mdoglio

Documentation

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Mozilla Developer Network

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Mozilla IT and Infrastructure

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Sync / Services

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Developer Tools

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Add-on SDK

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Foundation

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

OpenArt

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Release Engineering

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Emscripten

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Rust

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Servo

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Security Engineering

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Localization

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Build system

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Security Assurance

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments

Webmaker

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments
AWS cli tool for deploys/rapid prototyping Help build/explore options for a heroku-like cli tool for rapid prototyping and development in the Webmaker ecosystem that interfaces with our AWS infrastructure. nodejs k88hudson k88hudson clokep: There are tools that let you interact with AWS on the command line. I'm unsure if they do exactly what you want and doubt they're written in node (the official one is written on top of their Python library).
Developer experience for Cordova Android/Firefox OS Help fix bugs, improve documentation, learning resources, and developer experience for build tools, tests, and deployment of Cordova Firefox OS / Android projects javascript, nodejs k88hudson k88hudson clokep: I'm unsure what this is, it sounds like "Work on Cordova Android/Firefox OS and fix some documentation for 3 months". We like GSoC projects to have a specific goal in mind. Maybe this just needs a bit of rewording though.
Webmaker.app for iOS Develop an iOS version of our Cordova application (currently implemented for Android/Firefox OS) javascript, nodejs k88hudson k88hudson clokep: I have no idea how Webmaker.app works, but does this not need any iOS specific development skills (e.g. ObjectiveC)?
Prototype in-app payments for Webmaker.app Users can create mobile web apps with Webmaker.app, but what if they could accept payments? Explore options like paypal, stripe, etc. and develop a prototype using Cordova/web tech. javascript, nodejs, css, html k88hudson k88hudson clokep: I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the final end goal of this: is it simply to have a prototype that includes, e.g., PayPal? What will that help us do?

Mozilla Science Lab

Title Details Skills Needed Reporter Mentor(s) Comments
Contributorship Badges Visualizations Create a series of javascript snippets that authors and publishers can use to display authorship badges on their sites. Badges will be issued using PaperBadger -- a service using Open Badges to issue badges to an ORCID and paper DOI. Exploring the use of digital badges for crediting contributors to scholarly papers for their work. javascript, PaperBadger API (in development) Abby Abby As the research environment becomes more digital, we want to test how we can use this medium to help bring transparency and credit for individuals in the publication process. This work is a collaboration with publishers BioMed Central (BMC) and the Public Library of Science (PLoS); the biomedical research foundation, The Wellcome Trust; the software and technology firm Digital Science; the registry of unique researcher identifiers, ORCID; and the Mozilla Science Lab.

Background Reading: http://mozillascience.org/contributorship-badges-a-new-project/

http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2014/11/could-digital-badges-clarify-roles-co-authors

http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-credit-where-credit-is-due-1.15033

Note for clokep: I removed dependent projects if that's what's holding this project back in brainstorming?

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