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Use the canvas element in order to create a generic front-end for data visualization of the Mozilla source. Many types of information about the Mozilla project can be keyed to the source tree. For example, file change-rates, code-coverage, bug activity per module, checkins per module, etc. The visualization will be a heatmap, showing certain types of activity in the tree. Doing this visualizaiton using canvas3d would allow for a third axis, and changes over time to be shown.Contact: Jesse Keating
Create a dataIf upstream is willing to integrate it, port wubi-source for the Mozilla Tree Visualization projectinstaller and make it more cross distribution. This means data mining cvs.mozilla.orgOtherwise, bugzilla.mozilla.org, bonsai.mozilla.org and preparing the data provide a similar implementation for use in a heatmap visualizationFedora.
== Add OpenID support to Bugzilla ==http://wubi-installer.org/
Many open source projects rely on bugzilla for bug tracking, and open source developers use different instances, forcing them to have multiple logins. Complete OpenID == Delta RPM support in bugzilla.Koji build system ==
References: see [ * https://bugzilla.mozillafedorahosted.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294608 bug 294608]bodhi/ticket/160
This project will add instrumentation to Mozilla in order to determine how much time is spent away from the main event loop, and therefore from the user's mouse/keyboard input. When the user does somethingUsing Puppet, how long does it take for Mozilla to act on that stimulus? One thing that sometimes interferes with interface responsiveness is spending too long away from the main event loop, perhaps in layout or some other intensive computation. This leads to new events from the usermanagement tool, create a grid of a dozen machines, such as mouse clicks or keypressesthen turn that into 12, not being noticed and acted upon000 machines. This could also be expanded in order to include Address the triggering of log points and specific dialog openingsnetwork characteristics - how much bandwidth do you need on different components, etc. with the communication mechanisms - does UDP work at such a view to understanding what scale, the longgrid topology -running events actually what happens when two nodes arebehind firewalls.
ReferencesResource: http[[://shaver.off.net/diary/2007/08/25/tbeachball/ and httpfedora://shaver.off.net/misc/latency-tracing-patch.txtNightlife|Nightlife wiki page]], Matthew Farrellee
Create Along with a good build infrastructure, a Linuxstrong test framework and methodology is key to survival of modern software. Condor is a system that is shipped on, currently, 14 different platforms -based virtual machine with OS + Arch combinations. New features need to be verified to work on all those platforms and shown to cause no regressions in other features. Condor has a large test suite, but no suite covers everything or in sufficient depth. Pick a few features, say the necessary build, developmentVM Universe or Concurrency Limits, and demonstrate full understanding of them by testing tools necessary for working on Mozillaall of the corner cases. This virtual appliance would be targeted at developers not familiar is far from a simple task, and requires more than a cursory understand of the system to properly complete. Understanding the complex interactions of distributed components, common patterns exist across many distribute systems, as well as intimate interactions with the Mozilla toolchain and wanted to get startedOS is key.
== Port distcc to MSYS ==Resource: [[:fedora:Nightlife|Nightlife wiki page]], Matthew Farrellee
The recent work to add [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]] to distcc works using --- Below: Commented out by Chris Tyler 2008-08-31 -- I think we'll get all the cygwin build environment. However, since students doing this project was completed, Mozilla has switched to MSYS (see the [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites Mozilla Win32 build docs). Port distcc so that it works with the new MSYS environment.
References: Cesar and Tom== Review Packages ==
== Add Multi-File transfer There is a lot of packages in Fedora waiting for someone to distcc ==review it. While a completely new Fedora contributor needs to be sponsored before his package is approved, subsequent packages can be reviewed and approved by any Fedora package maintainer. In addition to that, virtually anybody with a Red Hat Bugzilla account can do do unofficial reviews. Working through the review queue and doing this work might be fun and useful learning process for folks interested in RPM and packaging in general.
References=== Review Requests === * Unassigned review requests - http: Cesar and Tom//fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/NEW.html* In progress review requests - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/InProgressReviewRequests* Approved review requests - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/ApprovedReviewRequests--> = Potential Mozilla Projects = == [[Sample Project]] ==
== Add password managers This is a sample project stub. You can use the template for various platforms ==[[Sample Project]] in order to create a project page for one of the stubs below. This is how you 'sign-up' for a project.
Previous work was done on adding [[OS X Keychain integration]] NOTE: if someone has already created the project page, speak to Firefox. This work was focused on tightly binding C++ this person and Mac API callssee if you can join them. Since then more work has been done If so, simply add your name to [http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2007/05/28/followup-password-manager-changes-coming-in-ff3-alpha-5/ modularize the password manager] in Firefox'''Project Leader(s)''' page. Various platform "keychains" need to be integrated with the new system. See bugs [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309807 309807]Otherwise, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106400 106400], and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371000 371000]. See also [http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-August/msg00241.html this e-mail message]you can become a contributor later.
== Refactor master password out of NSS ==Adding a few make steps to wrap this process would help everyone.This is a very easy project to tackle but very benefitial if the time and love is given to it.
Users can enable a "master password" in their browser, which securely encrypts all their stored passwords. The current implementation can be awkward to use and has some limitations, see [httpsReference://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322617 bug 322617]. Fixing this would involve having password manager being more involved with the cryptography operations -- deriving a key from a passphrase with PKCS#5, and using NSS and PKCS#11 to encrypt/decrypt entries. armenzg
Firefox 3 will support offline abilities, such that web developers can write their apps so they work even when no network is present. Good headway has been made already [httpReference://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/02/offlinearmenzg -zimbra-with-firefox.html porting Zimbra]. Pick another web app and add offline support, for example: [http://moodle.org Moodle].Bug 498641
Write a simple (i.e., nothing more than a simple "save session") extension to leverage the existing The [http://developerbenjamin.mozillasmedbergs.orgus/enrelease-repackager/docs/Session_restore_API Session Store APIFirefox Release Repackager] allows one to take a released version of the browser, deconstruct it in order to allow the user to save his/her currently open tabs and restore themadd some custom extension, then repackage it. This is similar allows organizations to what Firefox does when it unexpectedly crashes and gives the user the option to restore a previous session. NOTE: there are extensions that do this alreadyship slightly modified versions of stock releases, but many of them are more feature rich than need beuseful for their users. See also [http://www.beltzner.ca/mike/archives/2007/05/28/resurrect_your_session.html this blog post]Currently the repackager only works on Mac.
== [[Cross-Platform Mozilla Build Farm]] ==Port this tool to Windows and/or Linux. In order to do this you'll need platform binaries of 7zip, or perhaps you can use P7zip to do a cross platform version. There are other ideas that can be added to this tool as well for making it more flexible.
Using the accumulated knowledge of the [[Extending the Buildbot|buildbot]] and [[Distcc With MSVC|distcc]] projectsResources: mkaply, and using the physical resources of [[Mozilla@Seneca Cluster Administration|Hera]], create a cross-platform distributed build system suitable for testing patches to Mozilla.bsmedberg
ItMicrosoft's common for debugger allows the use of a developer symbol server, which it can use to want to "watch" all the bugs that are filed in a certain download debugging symbols for programs and libraries. [httpshttp://bugzilladeveloper.mozilla.org Bugzilla/en/docs/Using_the_Mozilla_symbol_server Mozilla provides this] component. Mozilla uses a convoluted for nightly and painful system of synthetic accounts to simulate this capabilityrelease builds on Windows, and weit'd all really prefer s useful for people to debug their crashes locally without having to build a debug build. This functionality doesn't exist for Linux or OS X, where gdb is the debugger. gdb does support loading debug symbols from external files, so it could probably be able extended to do it more directly and with less opportunity look for errorthe symbols on a web server first.
ReferenceReferences: [# https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76794 Bug 76794]412722#c5# http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/objcopy1.html (see --add-gnu-debuglink and --only-keep-debug)# http://www.totalviewtech.com/Documentation/Tips/gnu_debuglink.html
== [[Litmus Extension]] ==Resources: ted, Stan Shebs, Jim Blandy
We wanted to have an extension that would be able to serve users testcases to try and allow them to submit results to [http://litmus.mozilla.org http://litmus.mozilla.org]. We could expand the feature set of the extension to do a lot of other cool things with Bugzilla and Website Reporter integration. So we need some ideas there. If you're interested, you could consult the work of [[User:djhamp== gdb support for minidumps for post-g|David Hamp-Gonsalves]], who created the Buggy Bar extension.mortem debugging ==
== [["Avoid Microsoft's debugger allows for loading a minidump produced during a crash and then performing post-mortem debugging. GDB supports using core files for the same page twice" Extension]] ==purpose. In Firefox 3, we produce minidump files on all of our supported platforms for use with our Breakpad crash reporting system. Sometimes people may want to debug a crash locally using one of these minidumps. On Windows, using the symbol server, they can simply load the minidump in their debugger. Currently there is no equivalent on Linux or Mac. Extending gdb to support loading minidumps for post-mortem debugging would be useful. This project may rely on the gdb symbol server project to be truly useful.
Create an extension to Firefox so that when a bookmark is clicked, and that site is already open in any tab in any window, that tabReferences:# http:/window is brought to the front rather than loading the page again/code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/source/browse/trunk/src/google_breakpad/common/minidump_format.h# http://www.codeproject.com/KB/debug/postmortemdebug_standalone1.aspx# http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_3.html#SEC7# http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_9.html#SEC80
Related tech and skillsResources: XULted, JavaScriptStan Shebs, Jim Blandy
Lots Make it possible to look for bugs across old nightly builds of web developers use Firebug and Firefox for building their applicationsusing automated tools. For example, but we want those apps [http://db48x.net/regression-search/ regression-search] is a script that allows you to work well in other browsers as welldo binary searches across binaries, looking for the existence of a bug. If Firebug knew This could be improved through the use of tools like [http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/coscripter/browse/about JS or CSS patterns that co-scripter]. Ideally the user could cause problems look for bugs in other browsersautomated ways, it would make it much easier without having to have those applications work in all browsersdownload and install tons of browser versions.
== Add-on update helper tools for developers ==Resources: db48x, ted
As Firefox 3 gets ramped up, there are nearly 3000 add-ons that need == Extend Try Server to get updated to some degree. Write tools (web or XULRunner) to look in add-ons and find things that developers will need to update. You'll want to work with the Mozilla documentation and evangelism teams to figure out what you're looking for and what to recommend to users.test Thunderbird patches ==
== Make FUEL "Specifically, Mozilla has a great system called “try servers” where one can submit patches against the tree, and the build system runs builds on Linux, Mac and Windows, using those patches, then serves those builds for testing. This is really helpful to figure out if proposed patches solve specific problems...The only problem is that there’s a little bit of patching needed to the try server code itself to make it able to work with other targets besides Firefox 2 ==, as described in bug 431375" ([http://ascher.ca/blog/2008/05/02/thunderbird-team-needs-help-from-pythonperl-build-assist/ Ascher])
== Benchmark SVG ==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace DTrace] was created by Sun in OpenSolaris to allow developers to write simple scripts in order to probe and instrument executing programs in a way not possible otherwise. One of the advantages of DTrace is that it allows you to turn on probing when you need it, but not incur an execution penalty with regard to performance (i.e., when probes aren't being scripted, they aren't run). This requires developers to add "probes" to their source code. For example, if you wanted to know when a particular function is entered/exited, get info about what happened, etc. you could add probes to the particular function. Writing the probes is not difficult, however there are hundreds or thousands of probes that Mozilla would like across its code base.
Benchmark SVG performance and look for areas of the code that could be optimized.Resources: sayrer
Resources: #mozpad== Plugin Code Test Suite ==
== XULRunner Application Packaging ==Create a [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Plugins plugin] test suite. There are currently no tests of any kind, and this code is very brittle and not well understood. This would involve creating a plugin or set of plugins and some html/js to drive that plugin in order to push test coverage. Maybe look at the JRE tests, create some specific plugin cases (e.g., swf to load that tests flash specific code). The newly announced Google Chromium browser [http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/getting-around-the-chrome-source-code seems to have something like this] with regard to using the npapi for driving tests via plug-in. See also docs on [http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/inter-process-communication IPC] and [http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/plugin-architecture plug-in design] in Chromium.
Help to develop an [httpThis will require C programming, as well as light web development (html, js, perhaps swf). Resources://www.mozpad.org/doku.php?idjst ==application_build_system_project automated packaging Create self-serve symbol upload system] for XULRunner applications.==
Resources: plasticmillionMozilla has a symbol server which is used by developers to debug issues in release builds that don't include debug information (i.e., symbols). However, many crashes are related to third-party binary plugins or extensions, mfinklefor which Mozilla has no symbols. This project would create a web-based self-serve solution for third-parties to upload symbols for their binary components in breakpad-formatted .sym file format. Ideally this could happen in an automated way, such that third-parties could add a step to their build system to do it automatically with each release. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419879 bug#mozpad419879].
== Expose DBUS to XPCOM ==Resources: ted
The desktop bus ([http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus DBUS]) is used to communicate between desktop components on a Linux (or Unix) system. If this was exposed == <strike>Add OpenLayers test suite to XPCOM objects for bidirectional communication then tighter integration between the desktop and the browser could be achieved. There has been some [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.phpMozilla </D-Bus_and_other_Linux_desktop_integration_improvements previous work] in this area. Resources: RH online desktop team.strike>==
Create an HTTP facility (transport, not rendering) for desktop apps that shares cache and cookies with the browser -- basically export the firefox http engine. A dbus-exported [httpResources:sayrer<//svn.mugshot.org/dumbhippo/trunk/client/linux/src/hippo-dbus-http.c proof-of-concept] exists which which shows some basic structure. A better solution would support more http features, avoid the dbus daemon for large files, and use Firefox instead of libcurl. One challenge is making this work when Firefox is not running. Resources: RH online desktop team.strike>
Create a portable USB installation <strike>Mozilla uses an embedded version of Firefox that will work on all of Windows[http://www.sqlite.org/ SQLite] extensively to [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/storage store data] such as bookmarks, Linuxhistory, and Macetc. Currently there are binaries for doing this with Windows/Linux. You'll need To insure that it runs properly within Mozilla, it would be good to get binaries for add the app on each platform, figure out how entire sqlite test suite to share a common profileMozilla's tests, so that testing the browser also means testing sqlite. The sqlite test suite is written in TCL and get it all on a single USB keyneeds to be ported to JavaScript. Some existing [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/storage/test/unit/test_like.js work in this area has already been done], and could be built uponbut more is required to get full test coverage.
Add the possibility to compact the database for local storage calendars based on SQLite using the VACUUM command. At the moment the local database for events and tasks will not get smaller even if you delete your tasks and events. This has serious performance implications for people, who work a lot with their calendar.Resources: sdwilsh </strike>
See also Take : [httpshttp://bugzillazenit.senecac.mozillaon.orgca/wiki/show_bugindex.cgi?id=352976 Bug 352976php/Import_sqlite_test_suite Park,KiWon]
Resources: ctalbert, daniel == Make chromebug work in #calendar on irc.mozilla.orgThunderbird ==
== Thunderbird Draft Scheduler Extension ==TBD
Write an extension for == Help gristmill move forward in Thunderbird so that the user has the ability to mark a draft email for sending later. This is not the same as having to save emails in your DRAFT box because users would have to remember to go back in and click Send later. What is different here is that users could set the date and time for each email to be sent. This feature would be helpful to those who work late into the night but prefer not to send emails at such a late hour. This feature would also benefit support staff, e.g., administrative assistants, who constantly have to send out regular email reminders, e.g., for meetings, timesheets, etc.==
Resources: Vivian NgoTBD
Write an extension to leverage the existing spellcheck code in Mozilla and add the ability to highlight spelling mistakes for a given web page (i.e., vs. a textbox).TBD
== Webpage Delta Debugger ==Resources: Fallen
(From #seneca)
It'd be really nice to have a webpage "delta debugger" extension - something where the user could make a change, save a complete copy of the document post-change, load it in the browser again, and see if the bug's still there. If it is, user makes another change, gets another complete copy saved, loads the new copy, lather rinse repeat. If the bug isn't there, scrap the newly saved copy, but allow the user to annotate it, saying "Hey, I tried this already, don't try it again".
Suggestions include wrapping Jesse Ruderman's "Lithium" testcase reducer project into an user-friendly Firefox extension, or a DOM Inspector-like tool, focusing on a representation of the tree of DOM nodes.== HTML page set sanitizer ==
Resources: Alex Vincent (WeirdAl in #developers The Talos performance testing system at Mozilla currently runs on irca large set of web pages pulled from the Alexa Top 500.mozillaThese pages can't be redistributed, since they're mirrors of copyrighted web pages. In addition, many of them contain adult content. This makes it difficult for people to duplicate the Talos results or to test changes that have an expected performance impact.org)
== Modify Firefox A useful solution to throttle Plugins when Inactive ==this problem would be a tool that takes a mirrored copy of a website and "sanitizes" it, by changing the page text and image contents (making them junk or filler text or something). The caveat here is that this *cannot* change the performance characteristics of the page. For example, taking a page that is all Chinese text and replacing it with "Lorem Ipsum" filler text would cause the page to take different text rendering paths, which would change what is measured. As another example, making all JPEG images solid black would likely make them decode and render much faster. Any solution should have some analysis performed that shows that performance is not significantly altered in the sanitized page set.
Modify the browser so that it throttles plugins back when the user/browser/system is inactive. Consider, for example, [httpResources://www.kaourantin.net/2006/05/frame-rates-in-flash-player.html work] that has been done in Safari. You could consider doing this via the IdleService, with an observer set to go off at an appropriate interval. You should also consider how to deal with the case of videos ted (YouTubebut find someone better!). Perhaps keep a white list of movie sites, or other plugin-dependent content that shouldn't be throttled.
Often files downloaded by the browser are put in a temporary folder that is emptied on close. Users Resources: cathy, Andor (and especially novice users) should be protected from inadvertent data loss as a result of important files being saved to this temp folderhttp://www. This project will add fixes to the browser so that users are protectedc3dl. Ideas include:org)
* Make Firefox aware of common productivity file types (e.g., .doc, .pdf) and whitelist these types so they aren't deleted* Have office type files download automatically to a documents folder instead of temp* Firefox could check the timestamp of such files and delete them only if the timestamp is the same as when it was originally saved by the browser (i.e., has not been edited)* Warn the user on closing the browser that files are going to be removed* Assuming files still exist on start-up (see above), alert the user that these files are still there (similar to "New Session or Restart Existing?" dialog)* Have the browser pop-up a Save As dialog instead of automatically saving to temp, and use a documents path= Potential OOo Projects =
Other ideas are possible, and a combination of these might be necessary. Ultimately, this fix should target regular users without much knowledge of the filesystem.== [[Sample Project]] ==
== Implement Audio and Visual Mute This is a sample project stub. You can use the template for [[Sample Project]] in order to create a project page for one of the Browser ==stubs below. This is how you 'sign-up' for a project.
It would be useful NOTE: if someone has already created the project page, speak to this person and see if you could pause/mute/freeze distracting content in a tabcan join them. Often this means pluginsIf so, which are playing music or animating. One possible solution is simply add your name to expose the API that bfcache uses to freeze/thaw a window, since plugins are themselves "windows'''Project Leader(s)''' page." Other platform specific approaches may also be available (e.g.Otherwise, hooking sound API calls in Windows)you can become a contributor later.
References: http://www.melez.com/mykzilla/2007/04/tab-specific-mute.html== Generate an OOo XREF based on Dehydra ==
== Standalone Test Harnesses ==Using Dehydra, build OOo and generate an xref in the same way we are indexing for dxr.
Mozilla uses several systems for [httpTODO://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_automated_testing automated testing], including [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mochitest Mochitest], [http://developermore info.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_automated_testing#Reftest Reftest], [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Writing_xpcshell-based_unit_tests xpcshell unit tests], and [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_automated_testing#Crash_tests crash tests]. Currently, to run these test suites or develop new tests, you need to build your own Firefox with --enable-tests, and run the tests from the object directory. Ideally there would be a standalone package available for download that would let you run these test suites against any Firefox build, to ease development of new tests and allow more people to get involved with automated testing.
* References: http://xoatlicue.blogspot.com/2008/01/standalone-test-product.html* Possible Resources: Rob Campbell (robcee)humph, Ben Hearsumtaras
Right now FIXME : the only way of finding bookmarks in FUEL is to recursively iterate folders beginning with projects proposed on the rootOpenOffice. Because the assumption is that in Firefox 3 users are going to accumulate a lot of bookmarks, this could org Education Project will be not efficient enough (not adapted to mention inconvenient)the current section. It would be useful if [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/FUEL FUEL] provided an interface for querying bookmarks, as a wrapper for nsINavHistoryQuery and friends. An example of how it could look like in action:
var query = bookmarksWaiting we encourage you to have a look at the '''[http://wiki.newQuery(); queryservices.type = "folder"; queryopenoffice.searchTerms = "goats"; var results = queryorg/wiki/Education_Project/Effort OpenOffice.execute();org Education Project Effort page]'''
ReferencesOther links: Mark Finkle (mfinkle), [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409279 bug 409279]
== Provide an easier mechanism for creating History Listeners in JS ==[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project OpenOffice.org Education Project on the Wiki]
A better way for adding easy history event listeners to FUEL is needed, perhaps. Some initial design work has been done on this, see [
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406974 bug 406974].
References[[User: Mark Finkle Ericb|Ericb]] 21:05, 26 September 2008 (mfinkleUTC)
= Introduction =
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'''Students:''' If you'd like to work on one of these, move the chosen project to the [[Project List]] and create a page for your work based on the [[Sample Project]] template. '''Open Source Community Members:''' We welcome your recommendations for potential projects. Please create an account on this Wiki and create a description for your proposed project below. Please list your contact info (just an IRC or FAS2 name is OK) as well as links to any related web pages as Resources for the proposed project. (Questions? Ask [[user:Chris Tyler | Chris Tyler]] or [[user:David.humphrey | David Humphrey]]). = SBR600 Potential Projects = For possible projects for the SBR600 Software Build and Release Course, lease see the [[SBR600 Potential Projects]] page. = Potential Eclipse WTP Projects = See the list of potential bugs [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/report.cgi?x_axis_field=priority&y_axis_field=product&z_axis_field=bug_severity&query_format=report-table&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=WebTools&product=WTP+Common+Tools&product=WTP+ServerTools&product=WTP+Source+Editing&product=WTP+Webservices&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&priority=P2&priority=P3&priority=P4&priority=P5&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&format=table&action=wrap&field0-0-0=assigned_to&type0-0-0=regexp&value0-0-0=.@ca.ibm.com&field0-0-1=noop&type0-0-1=noop&value0-0-1= here]. <!-- = Potential Fedora Projects =
== [[Sample Project]] ==
NOTE: if someone has already created the project page, speak to this person and see if you can join them. If so, simply add your name to the '''Project Leader(s)''' page. Otherwise, you can become a contributor later.
== Mozilla Tree Visualization Ideas Pool == Lots of good ideas are listed in [[:fedora:SummerCoding/2008/Ideas|Summer Coding Ideas (Fedora Wiki)]]. These projects were originally proposed for Google Summer of Code projects; if you want to use one of them, please discuss it with [[User:Chris Tyler|Chris Tyler]] before selecting it, because the scope and mentorship model for GSOC is different from that of the LUX projects. == Cobbler Web == Cobbler is a Linux install server that simplifies tasks associated with fully automated installation such as DHCP, DNS, kickstart, yum, and virtualization. It aims to be a universal install server for all linux distributions. Currently Cobbler has a web interface that allows users an easier way of interacting with cobbler. There are several core improvements that can be made. One idea is to extend cobbler web to produce views that make it easier for users to edit fields that only they edit (let me reinstall systems I own but don't show me fields I shouldn't care about). Another is to enable search features in the web app to make it tolerate thousands of systems to a better extent. Finally, another feature is to add a task engine to cobblerd, to make it possible to run commands like "cobbler import" and "cobbler reposync" in the background and see their output in the web interface via an AJAXy type system. Possible features are not limited to the above (or just working on the web interface), Cobbler has an ongoing RFE list in Trac that has a wide variety of potential ideas, and ideas beyond the ones listed are also fair game. See https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/report/1?sort=type&asc=1 Resources: http://fedoraproject.org/cobbler Contact: Michael DeHaan == Personal Koji Repositories == Koji Personal Repos (KoPeR) is a concept to allow Fedora maintainers to create personal repos of packages to build against and share with others. Resources: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/KojiPersonalRepos
== Mozilla Data Visualization Back-ends Port Wubi to Fedora ==
== Tbeachball - Quantifying Mozilla's Responsiveness Benchmark Nightlife Scalability Issues ==
== Mozilla Developer Virtual Appliance Create Test Suite for Condor ==
The recent work to add [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]] to distcc only allows for a single file to be sent back from build slavesgeneral process is described in http://fedoraproject. This means that extra debugging info (eorg/wiki/PackageMaintainers/HowToGetSponsored and in http://fedoraproject.g., .pdb files) cannot be sent with binaries. Modify distcc so that it can support debug Mozilla buildsorg/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines.
== Convert password storage to a SQLite database Improve Localization build system ==
Currently, it requires many many steps to produce another language of Firefox stores logins in a text file in the user's profile (signons2.txt). The format is simple, but inflexible. Storage of other browser data, such as cookies and form history, has steadily been moving towards using SQLite-backed databases so moving password storage It would really easy to package these many steps to reduce the same kind of storage would be good. Some work was started in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288040 bug 288040]required knowledge to generate a new language.
== [[Add Offline Support Create a cross-repo pushlog to an open source web app]] see all locales's checkins ==We currently check many different repositories to trigger builds when a developer makes a change. We also check the localizer's repositories to see if they have pushed any changes. The problem is that we have close to eighty different localization repositories and that takes a long time to check each one of them.If we had a joint view that would improve our systems. An example of that view is:https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/pushes/but the format should be more like this:http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushlogwhich is what our release engineering systems check for.This project would require you to hack hg and pushlog to make it work.armenzg has many blog posts explaining how to setup pushlog in your local machine.
== Thunderbird SMTP Auto-Sensing ==
Modify Thunderbird so that it uses the correct SMTP server for your current network and IP. In other words, if you are at home, use your home ISP's SMTP, but if you use a school wireless network, switch to the school's SMTP. These various SMTP configurations should be manually controlled by the user, that is, you don't have to try and figure out which SMTP to use. Rather, it should be configurable in an options dialog.
References: #maildev == <strike>XULRunner Application Packaging == Help to develop an [http://www.mozpad.org/doku.php?id=application_build_system_project automated packaging system] for XULRunner applications. Resources: plasticmillion, mfinkle, #mozpad, #prism</strike> == 'Compact databases' feature for Mozilla calendaring applications (Lightning, Sunbird) == Add the possibility to compact the database for local storage calendars based on SQLite using the VACUUM command. At the moment the local database for events and tasks will not get smaller even if you delete your tasks and events. This has serious performance implications for people, who work a lot with their calendar. See also [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352976 Bug 352976] Resources: ctalbert, daniel in #calendar on irc.mozilla.org == <strike>[[Spellcheck Extension for Arbitrary Web Pages]]</strike> == <strike>Write an extension to leverage the existing spellcheck code in Mozilla and add the ability to highlight spelling mistakes for a given web page (i.e., vs. a textbox).</strike> == <strike>Modify Firefox to handle files downloaded to Temp more appropriately </strike>== <strike>Often files downloaded by the browser are put in a temporary folder that is emptied on close. Users (and especially novice users) should be protected from inadvertent data loss as a result of important files being saved to this temp folder. This project will add fixes to the browser so that users are protected. Ideas include: * Make Firefox aware of common productivity file types (e.g., .doc, .pdf) and whitelist these types so they aren't deleted* Have office type files download automatically to a documents folder instead of temp* Firefox could check the timestamp of such files and delete them only if the timestamp is the same as when it was originally saved by the browser (i.e., has not been edited)* Warn the user on closing the browser that files are going to be removed* Assuming files still exist on start-up (see above), alert the user that these files are still there (similar to "New Session Saver Extensionor Restart Existing?" dialog)* Have the browser pop-up a Save As dialog instead of automatically saving to temp, and use a documents path Other ideas are possible, and a combination of these might be necessary. Ultimately, this fix should target regular users without much knowledge of the filesystem.</strike> Resources: ted, mfinkle See also: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280419 bug 280419] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369108 bug 369108], and code [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/uriloader/exthandler/nsExternalHelperAppService.cpp#2077 here]. == Standalone Test Harnesses == Mozilla uses several systems for [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_automated_testing automated testing], including [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mochitest Mochitest], [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_automated_testing#Reftest Reftest], [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Writing_xpcshell-based_unit_tests xpcshell unit tests], and [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_automated_testing#Crash_tests crash tests]. Currently, to run these test suites or develop new tests, you need to build your own Firefox with --enable-tests, and run the tests from the object directory. Ideally there would be a standalone package available for download that would let you run these test suites against any Firefox build, to ease development of new tests and allow more people to get involved with automated testing. * References: http://xoatlicue.blogspot.com/2008/01/standalone-test-product.html* Possible Resources: Ben Hearsum == Add source checkout to buildbot == Unlike many open source projects, it's not possible to do a CVS checkout and build the code. This is due to the complex module and version combinations necessary to get and build a particular product, for example Firefox. To accomplish this, Mozilla uses [http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/client.mk client.mk] , which provides a set of rules for getting and building the code. Increasingly, Mozilla is moving toward using the Python based buildbot system for automated builds and tests. It would be good to add a Source class for client.mk checkouts. This would mean creating a a general Source class that understands the idea of checking out a file, and which could then be used to drive the checkout and allow for integration with client.mk. References: Ben Hearsum (bhearsum), Rob Helmer (rhelmer) == Port the Firefox Release Repackager to other platforms ==
== [[Bugzilla component-watching]] gdb symbol server support ==
== Firebug "linting" for portability problems RegressionTry ==
== Add DTrace probes and scripts for Mozilla's [http://wiki.mozilla.org/FUEL FUEL] (Firefox User Extension Library) is a JavaScript Library designed to help developers build extensions using terminology and interfaces that are more familiar to them. Currently it works with Firefox 3, but it would be helpful to have it work with Firefox 2 as well. Work toward having the existing [http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/find?stringcode base ==fuel%2Ftest%2Fbrowser_ FUEL Tests] pass for Firefox 2.
<strike>Mozilla [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/tests/mochitest/ajax/ uses] many common JavaScript library test suites to add additional coverage to it's JavaScript implementation. One test suite that is not currently used by Mozilla, but could be, is the [http://openlayers.org OpenLayer's] js [http://trac.openlayers.org/browser/trunk/openlayers/tests test suite]. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id== Embeddable HTTP Engine ==399311 bug# 399311].
== Universal Firefox on a USB Key <strike>Import sqlite test suite</strike> ==
References: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id== 'Compact databases' feature for Mozilla calendaring applications (Lightning391756 bug 391756], Sunbird) =http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=368
== [[Spellcheck Extension for Arbitrary Web Pages]] Help Calendar integration on Trunk ==
== Modify Firefox 3D object picking ==Canvas 3D JS Library is a library for the creation and manipulation of 3D scenes in the browser without needing to know much 3D programming. Part of this project is to handle files downloaded mouse input. This particular project looks at how to Temp more appropriately ==perform "picking". That is, when given a coordinate within the canvas, return the 3D object at that location.
== Provide a way to easily perform bookmark queries in JS Existing Subjects proposed by OpenOffice.org Education Project ==