Project List
Seneca College is working on many joint research and development projects with Mozilla and Fedora. These projects are listed below. Many of the projects below are part of the DPS909 or OSD600 courses or the LUX Program.
For more information about what Seneca is doing with Mozilla, Fedora, and other open source projects, see the Main Page.
Introduction
This page lists many of the research and coursework projects that are being done between Seneca faculty, students, and various Open Source communities, including Mozilla, Fedora, and OpenOffice.org. All of these projects are open source, and you can get involved with any of the current ones, or look at the list of Potential Projects. To claim a project, move it from the Potential Projects page to Active Project table below and create a link to a new project page based on the Sample Project page.
Active Projects
| Project Name | Description | Leader(s) | Community or Communities |
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| Canvas3D XUL Runner App | Installing a test version of Canvas3D has been a logistical nightmare. This project aims to create a XUL Runner version of the Canvas3D extension which will be easy to download and run, and can update itself as the project progresses. | Leonard Lee | Mozilla |
| Canvas3D JS Library | A project to add JS APIs on top of the canvas3d element in order to support 3D and game development. | Cathy Leung | Mozilla |
| Mozilla Developer Resource Kit | A project to create a resource kit (i.e., DVDs) containing the tools, documentation, source code, and learning materials necessary for a new developer or student to begin developing Mozilla. | David Humphrey | Mozilla |
| Create Local MXR | Many developers without highspeed network access would like to be able to use MXR but can't. Build a lightweight, installable Windows package that gives the full functionality of MXR locally. Create a Prism front-end specific for the task of using this local MXR. | David Humphrey | Mozilla |
| Add an Infobar style warning for window resize/move | Many (poorly behaved) web sites attempt to move and/or resize your browser window. It is possible to stop this behaviour (cf. dom.disable_window_move_resize) but it would be nice to have an infobar that informed the user that a web page attempted to move/resize the window, and allow it or ignore it (default). This behaviour is similar to the current Pop-up Blocker already present in Firefox. NOTE: it is not clear whether such a feature would be accepted in the tree or if this would need to be done as an extension. | Tony Lai | Mozilla |
| Contribute to Private Browsing Tests | The new Private Browsing feature (see bug 248970 and the test plan) needs thorough tests written in order to insure its proper functionality. This will involve collaborating with those writing the patch and tests in order to develop a full suite of tests. | Aaron Train | Mozilla
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| Profile the build system | It's a well known fact that it takes longer to build on Windows than on a comparable Linux or Mac machine. We don't know exactly why, however. There have been many theories, but no real data. Profiling the build system would allow us to figure out where all of the time is being spent. The best place to start might be by adding some profiling to GNU Make, to figure out which targets in our makefiles take the most time. From there, depending on the results, profiling could be added to other parts of the build system to narrow down specific bottlenecks.
References:
Resources: ted |
Patrick Lam | Mozilla |
| Thunderbird Image Auto-Resize | Write an extension for Thunderbird that gives functionality similar to that of Outlook, where image attachments in an email can be automatically re-sized to one of a set of smaller sizes. This is helpful for users who would otherwise try to send megabytes of image data, when they can safely scale the images down and still share their pictures with friends.
References: #maildev |
Zaid Ghansar | Mozilla |
| NetworkManager Web Authentication | NetworkManager knows how to connect to many different types of networks, both wired and wireless, and can auto-authenticate to WEP and WPA networks. However, it can't auto-authenticate to networks that require a web-based login, which includes many wired and wireless networks such as SeneNET and AirYork.
Modify NetworkManager so that it talks (though dbus) to a Firefox extension for automatic login to a web-authenticated network. Resources: ctyler, (roc, callion for dbus) |
Jason Tarka | Fedora/Mozilla |
| Make Ubiquity Work In Thunderbird | Ubiquity is a cool extensible natural language front-end to Firefox. It could do wonders in Thunderbird as well. Aza Raskin and other Ubiquity hackers are happy to help someone do that with their Ubiquity knowledge, and #maildev will be happy to assist w/ Thunderbird knowledge.
Resources: aza, ubiquity-firefox mailing list) |
Scott Lunel and Thomas Brown | Mozilla |
| Add Bit Torrent support to Songbird | Songbird is the best music player in the known universe! Unfortunately, it does not have support for importing media directly from a torrent to the user library. This project will provide that support.
Resources: stevel, mook, mfinkle, preed, mossop, Mozilla Developer Center, Songbird Developer Center ) |
Anthony Hughes | Songbird |
| Fix nsIProcess | Create a new spec for the nsIProcess API and implement interprocess commmunication. The current API is not fully implemented and lacks ipc.
See this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442393 Resources: humph, bsmedberg |
James Boston | Mozilla |
| Import sqlite test suite | Mozilla uses an embedded version of SQLite extensively to store data such as bookmarks, history, etc. To insure that it runs properly within Mozilla, it would be good to add the entire sqlite test suite to Mozilla's tests, so that testing the browser also means testing sqlite. The sqlite test suite is written in TCL and needs to be ported to JavaScript. Some work has already been done, but more is required to get full test coverage.
Resources: sdwilsh) |
Park, KiWon | Mozilla |
| Colour Management Tests | Write reftests to compare images in order to deal with floating point tolerance. This includes dealing with things like Monitor Profiles, profiles in JPEG (i.e., JPEGs get changed based on colour profile info). See discussion of colour profiles in Firefox 3 here. It would be useful to be able to compare to PNGs with a reftest, perhaps creating an image diff tool, where pixels outside a floating point tolerance (> 0.n) would somehow be highlighted so you can see what is different. This will require some graphics and image knowledge (i.e., Photoshop, what colour is on a computer, etc). Resources: #gfx, joe, vlad, bholley, [http://bholley.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/so-many-colors/ discussion of Mozilla colour profiles |
Ezadkiel Villarico Marbella | Mozilla |
Historical Projects
See the Historical Projects page for projects which were previously active.
