Community:SummerOfCode06

Add your ideas here for Mozilla Projects that students could take on to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2006

Please use this general format for submitting ideas.

ID	Title	Abstract- links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter & Mentor(s)	Status

You should provide good detail and links to other information about in the abstract. This will help students writting proposals to submit the best proposals possible.

All approved projects are going to need mentors, so suggestions in this section are important. I'm looking to recruit more Mozilla module owners to serve as mentors.

The following list of module owners and peers have signed up to be mentors:

• Ben Goodger
• Chris Hofmann (admin)
• David Bienvenu
• David Liebreich
• Joshua Aas
• Mike Beltzner
• Mike Pinkerton
• Mark Mentovai
• Robert O'Callahan
• Scott MacGregor
• Stuart Parmenter
• Vladimir Vukicevic

If you are interested in being a mentor, the requirements and responsibilities are here: http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html

Apply to be a mentor by submitting this form: http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html

If your a student writing a proposal, there is a good list of guidlines written up at [1] that will help as the mentors as they review, evaluate , and decide on your Mozilla Project proposal.

Thanks

Chris Hofmann

Project Idea List.

The following projects have been proposed by Mozilla module owners and project participants. Students might also look at interesting individual bugs in the [2] database, and write proposals that would help to diagnose or fix specific issues described in individual or collections of bugs.

Core Browser Engine and Toolkit Development

ID	Title	Abstract links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter & Mentor(s)	Status
	"Advance the XUL platform"	projects (to be defined) e.g. implement <menugroup>, fix menu bugs, etc.	Ben	submitted 10:38, 17 April 2006 (PDT)
	Multi-threaded (accelerated) Download Manager	([3]) with possible Metalink (bug #331979) (Mirrors/P2P/checksums) or MD5/SHA-1 hash/checksum microformat support.		submitted 21:34, 17 April 2006 (PDT)
	Auto verify MD5/SHA1 hashes & PGP signatures	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...
	pixman rewrite	Work on cairo to speed up image fallback backend. Requires strong knowledge of image processing, as well as MMX/SSE/etc; the bulk of the work will be writing fast inner-loop compositing operations for in-memory image surfaces.	VladVukicevic
	Multithreaded Plugin Loader	Multithreaded Plugin Loader in Firefox and other browsers. This would avoid the browser from hanging for several seconds when loading a Java plugin for example.
	APNG support	implementation of APNG	Vlad	already assigned
	Firefox tracking online/offline status and proxy settings	Implement nsINetworkLinkService and nsISystemProxySettings on Windows so Firefox will go online/offline automatically when Windows does and track Windows' proxy settings (maybe too easy?)	Roc	02:38, 20 April 2006 (PDT)
	Security Improvements	Fix some of the bugs and enhancement requests with "sg:want" in the status whiteboard. These are things that would improve security, but aren't security holes.	Jesse Ruderman
	Process Coverity reports	Coverity identified hundreds of potential problems in Firefox. Currently, only 117 got filed in bugzilla (about half of them fixed) branch. According to http://scan.coverity.com/ , there should be 245 more. A student could process the rest, and also identify the ones that are worthwile to be included in FF 2.0.	Reporter: Jo Hermans
	Improvements to web page error reporting	Implement some proposed changes to the console service API and consumers to allow a much better error console UI (associating errors with specific windows, etc). Possibly implement said UI as well, if desired. bug 228205 covers the API changes.	Reporter: Boris Zbarsky
	Create a scriptable jar writer or zip writer	Implement a scriptable nsIZipWriter component and interface. bug 289948 is a bug requesting this feature, and libjar is the directory where the zip reader resides.	Reporter: richwklein	Submitted: 8:26, 21 April 2006 (CST)
	Improve the XUL Sort Service	Generalize nsIXULSortService so non template data can be sorted in lists and trees. nsIXULSortService is the current implementation, and some ideas for improvements. XUL Priority List includes a reference to sorting as well.	Reporter: richwklein	Submitted: 8:26, 21 April 2006 (CST)

Firefox Features and Extensions

ID	Title	Abstract links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter & Mentor(s)	Status
	Complete Torrent-Integration	[4] (started in last year's SoC)
	Enhanced Page Info window	(need spec)...	Ben Beltzner for UI	Submitted 18:07, 18 April 2006 (PDT)

Mac Platform Improvements

ID	Title	Abstract links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter & Mentor(s)	Status
	styled text support for Mac clipboard	Implement copy/paste of styled text to the system clipboard on the Mac; bug 79864	Reporter: sardisson
	Mac keybinding and text-editing improvements	Audit and fix any missing OS-standard text field keybindings and text-editing behaviors on the Mac (good summary of default bindings here); bug 330968	Reporter: sardisson	13:28, 19 April 2006 (PDT)
	Improve/expand AppleScript support	Mozilla-based Mac products have very limited AppleScript support, especially in comparison ton Safari, Eudora, and other long-standing Mac applications; Camino bugs 178917, 160106, 314061, 253486, 156078 (there may be others in Core, Firefox, Thunderbird, or MAS products)	Reporter: sardisson	13:28, 19 April 2006 (PDT)
	Revive CHBrowserView.	Right now, embedding Gecko in a Cocoa application means embedding all of Camino. We need to make it easier to embed Mozilla in Cocoa applications, for WebKit competition.	Håkan Waara, Mark Mentovai	13:52, 19 April 2006 (PDT)
	Camino Single-Window Mode.	Now that the APIs for "single window mode" are available to embedding apps, we need to add this capability to Camino. Bug 274143	Mike Pinkerton, Mark Mentovai
	Camino Keychain Rewrite.	Camino uses the old API for Keychain, we need to update to the new API in order to be compatible with Safari keychain entries. The new implementation needs to be backwards compatible with old keychain entries (maybe a one-time import?) and allow multiple passwords per site (one of our Top-5 feature requests). Bugs 172842, 177941, 179672, 178607, 187720, (maybe 202337).	Mike Pinkerton, Mark Mentovai
	Camino Tab Reordering	Users want to be able to drag tabs to reorder them, as well as drag them to other windows, or drag them out of windows to create a new window. Bugs 160720 and 318260	Mike Pinkerton, Mark Mentovai
	Native form widgets for Mac	Improve native look/feel of form widgets under Cocoa widgets. This would involved making a list of priorities for improving look/feel and fixing as many things as possible before the end of the project. Examples might be cleaning up text field borders, defining fallback behavior for CSS modifications to form widgets, making listbox scrollbars small-sized scrollbars instead of full-sized, etc...	Josh Aas

Minino Mobile Browsing Features and Extensions

ID	Title	Abstract links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter & Mentor(s)	Status
	Mobile Widgets	Create XUL based mobile widgets for Minimo/Firefox on the desktop along the lines of stuff at http://www.widgetgallery.com/ and http://www.georgenava.com/applauncher.php - These could be hosted remote XUL content or built-in as extensions to Minimo -	dougt and mgalli
	Location info for Minimo	Intergrate GPS and other location information to allow content tailoring. Some early prototype work has been done for Firefox and Minimo ( [5] , and [6]) You would work on expanding and extending these ideas.	dougt

Thunderbird Features and Extensions

ID	Title	Abstract links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter & Mentor(s)	Status
	Update T-bird Feed front-end to keep up with NetNewsWire et al.	keep it simple and minimal.	sayrer
	Complete Skype-Integration for Thunderbird	(started in last year's SoC)
	Improve Calendar extension within Thunderbird	Better integration of Calendar extension within Thunderbird	Triona	05:44, 19 April 2006 (PDT)
	Tbird Address Book Improvements	Improve the address book of the thunderbird. The current address book is basically the same of the old Netscape, and it was created on an Internet without instant messaging and other stuffs. Also, it does not permits inter-operability with other programs and/or mobile devices (like cellular phones and handhelds).	Kyller Gorgonio
	Addressbook Backend Improvements	In Address Book, take the Outlook Backend, make it so that its not reliant on Outlook being default Mail Client and provide a UI to allow interfacing to it (i.e. user can select address books to view). At the same time update the import code so that it is also not reliant on Outlook being the default Mail Client.	-Standard8 bienvenu, dmose	15:29, 21 April 2006 (PDT)
	Spam Filtering Improvements	More info at [7]	mscott, bienvenu
	Other tbird projects	More info at [8]	mscott, bienvenu

Tools, Server Infrastructure, and Testing

ID	Title	Abstract links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter & Mentor(s)	Status
	Venkman javascript debugger Improvements	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)	Reporter: GijsKruitbosch Mentor: none so far
	XUL editor plugin for Eclipse	Build a 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	submitted 09:31, 17 April 2006 (PDT)
	UI improvements to DOM inspector	DOM Inspector is currently really tedious to use. Identify weak points and come up with solutions. This possibly should involve things like allowing the DOM inspector to work with print previews.	Ben Wakeless	submitted 18:06, 18 April 2006 (PDT)
	Multi-teired addons.mozilla.org	based on trust metrics and user experience See morgamic's blog	Cameron	20:58, 18 April 2006 (PDT)
	Firefox Test Harness Extension	Implement a test harness as an extension, able to be invoked from the command line and recording output to file or content. Possible models are FoxUnit, FIT, and xUnit.	Davel	17:31, 21 April 2006 (PDT)