View source for Winter 2013 DPS911 and OSD700 Project Info

==Goals==

* Implement a stand-alone C implementation of http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/
* Implement the track element (see [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629350 bug 629350]) in Firefox, such that it can use the aforementioned parser
* Complete this work in 2013, have it land in mozilla-central, ship in Firefox.

==Repos==

* Dev (Seneca): https://github.com/humphd/webvtt
* Upstream: https://github.com/mozilla/webvtt

For Seneca students, patches should land in the ''humphd'' repo first, from which the ''mozilla'' repo will get updated.

==Communications==

* Seneca
** [mailto:webvtt-dev@senecacollege.ca webvtt-dev] mailing list for students in DPS911 and OSD700 for course, project co-ordination

* Mozilla
** [https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media dev-media] mailing list, for async contact with Mozilla media developers
** [irc://irc.mozilla.org/media #media] irc channel, for real-time contact with Mozilla media developers.  Ralph is 'rillian' on irc.
** [irc://irc.mozilla.org/introduction #introduction] irc channel, for real-time help with general Mozilla development
** [irc://irc.mozilla.org/seneca #seneca] irc channel, for course/project back-channel communication

* W3C
** http://www.w3.org/community/texttracks/ consider joining the public mailing list

==Drivers==

Each student is expected to drive (i.e., lead, manage) one or more areas of the project.  A project of this scale and scope doesn't get finished without people watching, and caring about, all its various aspects.  An initial list of major areas (please add those not included):

* Build System, Build Automation, CI: ''name''
* Issues, Bugs, Triage: ''name''
* Documentation - External: ''name''
* Documentation - Internal: ''name''
* DOM Interface Implementation(s): ''name''
* WEBVTT Parser Implementation: '''Caitlin'''
* WEBVTT Parser Integration within Gecko: '''Rick'''
* WEBVTT Spec Tests: ''Shayan''
* DOM Tests: ''name''
* Spec Change, Conformance, etc. Management: ''name''