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 bug 629350 and track section in HTML5 spec) 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
  • webvtt-dev mailing list for students in DPS911 and OSD700 for course, project co-ordination

• Mozilla
  • dev-media mailing list, for async contact with Mozilla media developers
  • #media irc channel, for real-time contact with Mozilla media developers. Ralph is 'rillian' on irc.
  • #introduction irc channel, for real-time help with general Mozilla development
  • #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: Jordan
• Issues, Bugs, Triage: Shayan
• Documentation - External: name
• Documentation - Internal: name
• DOM Interface Implementation(s): Dale
• WEBVTT Parser Implementation: Caitlin
• WEBVTT Parser Integration within Gecko: Rick
• WEBVTT Spec Tests: Shayan
• DOM Tests: Jordan
• Spec Change, Conformance, etc. Management: name