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 | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | 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?) |
Calendar
| Title | Details - with links as appropriate | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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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
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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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