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== Port canvas3d Along with a good build infrastructure, a strong test framework and methodology is key to nonsurvival of modern software. Condor is a system that is shipped on, currently, 14 different platforms -Windows 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 VM Universe or Concurrency Limits, and demonstrate full understanding of them by testing all of the corner cases. This 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 OS is key.
The canvas3d extension is a binary C++ component that adds a 3D OpenGL drawing context to the HTML canvas element. Currently canvas3d works only on Windows. Port the code to Linux and/or Mac OS X. Porting involves implementing a pbuffer class for each new platform. Some familiarity with OpenGLResource: [[:fedora:Nightlife|Nightlife wiki page]], or a willingness to learn it, is required.Matthew Farrellee
Resources--- Below: Cathy, VladCommented out by Chris Tyler 2008-08-31 -- I think we'll get all the students doing this.
Many open source projects rely on bugzilla There is a lot of packages in Fedora waiting for bug trackingsomeone to review it. While a completely new Fedora contributor needs to be sponsored before his package is approved, subsequent packages can be reviewed and open source developers use different instancesapproved by any Fedora package maintainer. In addition to that, forcing them to have multiple loginsvirtually anybody with a Red Hat Bugzilla account can do do unofficial reviews. Complete OpenID support Working through the review queue and doing this work might be fun and useful learning process for folks interested in RPM and packaging in bugzillageneral.
ReferencesThe general process is described in http: see [https//fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/HowToGetSponsored and in http://bugzilla.mozillafedoraproject.org/show_bugwiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines.cgi?id=294608 bug 294608]
Firefox3 probably won't ship with support for full* Unassigned review requests -text history search, even though urlhttp://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/NEW.html* In progress review requests -bar autocomplete (with urlshttp:/titles) is a really great feature/ideafedoraproject. Write an extension in order to add this featureorg/wiki/PackageMaintainers/InProgressReviewRequests* Approved review requests - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/ApprovedReviewRequests-->
References: http://skrul.com/blog/projects/xpclucene/= Potential Mozilla Projects =
Use This is a sample project stub. You can use the canvas element template for [[Sample Project]] in order to create a generic front-end project page for data visualization one of the Mozilla sourcestubs below. Many types of information about the Mozilla project can be keyed to the source tree. For example, file change-rates, codeThis is how you 'sign-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 up' for a third axis, and changes over time to be shownproject.
== Mozilla Data Visualization Back-ends ==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.
Create a data-source for the Mozilla Tree Visualization project. This means data mining cvs.mozilla.org, bugzilla.mozilla.org, bonsai.mozilla.org and preparing the data for use in a heatmap visualization.== Improve Localization build system ==
== Plugin-watcher ==Currently it requires many many steps to produce another language of Firefox.It would really easy to package these many steps to reduce the required knowledge to generate a new language.
Firefox sometimes gets Adding a bad reputation for crashing or locking up when a plugin such as Adobe Flash or Windows Media Player causes the problemfew make steps to wrap this process would help everyone. Add code to Firefox (or write an extension) so that when a plugin misbehaves, a dialog This is presented informing the user so that they can take corrective action (disabling the plugin) or filing a bug with the right party (this warning could be similar very easy project to tackle but very benefitial if the warning that appears when a JS script in a web page hogs too much CPU time. As a minimum it should identify that a plugin and love is given to blame; better would be to inform the user of the plugin's name; best would be to provide an option to temporarily disable the plugin)it.
== Improve Mozilla Application and Platform Documentation ==Reference: armenzg
Not enough is understood about == Create a cross-repo pushlog to see all locales's checkins ==We currently check many different repositories to trigger builds when a developer makes a change. We also check the various communities and companies who develop with Mozilla, as opposed localizer's repositories to those who work on the Mozilla code itselfsee if they have pushed any changes. A proper survey needs The problem is that we have close to be conducted in order eighty different localization repositories and that takes a long time to find out which APIs are being used and how, what check each one of them.If we had a joint view that would improve our systems. An example of that view is hard, what could :https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/pushes/but the format should be improved, etc. The [more like this:http://wwwhg.mozpadmozilla.org Mozilla Platform Application Developers] /mozilla-central/pushlogwhich is interested in changing thiswhat our release engineering systems check for. Their goal is This project would require you to hack hg and pushlog to make it work with the Mozilla development community to survey, understand, and document the current state of the art. In this project you will work with the mozpad community armenzg has many blog posts explaining how to connect with projects/companies setup pushlog in orbit around Mozilla and do interviews with their developers. You will then document this informationyour local machine.
* ReferencesReference: http://www.mozpad.org/doku.php?id=actionitem:documentation_proposal* See also: http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/06/xulrunnerarmenzg -wishlist/ and http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/1826* Contacts: plasticmillionBug 498641
Join a localization team (see http://developerModify Thunderbird so that it uses the correct SMTP server for your current network and IP.mozilla.org/en/docs/Localization) and help localize Mozilla into a language In other than Englishwords, if you are at home, use your home ISP's SMTP, for examplebut if you use a school wireless network, [http://blogswitch to the school's SMTP.mozilla 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.com/ligong/2007/07/11/firefox-cn-localization-liaison-group-started/ Chinese] Rather, it should be configurable in an options dialog.
== Testing of Canadian Banking and Financial Sites in Mozilla ==References: #maildev
This project will focus on improving the user experience at banking and other financial sites for Canadian Mozilla users. This includes determining which sites are relevant, insuring proper behavior for Firefox 3 on these sites, etc.
References: http://quality.mozilla.org/node/293
Write Help to develop an extension to allow the user to pick his[http://her own favicons for sites, based on a URL regexpwww.mozpad. The image should get stored as part of the user’s profile, so that it doesn’t have to live in the same place on the user’s diskorg/doku. Ideally, it should also be possible to export the regexp -> icon mapping as a regexp -> data URI mapping that can be imported into another profilephp?id=application_build_system_project automated packaging system] for XULRunner applications.
ReferencesResources: http://blog.vlad1.com/archives/2007/08/10/151plasticmillion, mfinkle, #mozpad, #prism</strike>
This project will add instrumentation Add the possibility to Mozilla in order to determine how much time is spent away from compact the main event loop, and therefore from database for local storage calendars based on SQLite using the user's mouse/keyboard inputVACUUM command. When At the user does something, how long does it take moment the local database 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 user, such as mouse clicks or keypresses, and tasks will not being noticed get smaller even if you delete your tasks and acted uponevents. This could also be expanded in order to include the triggering of log points and specific dialog openingshas serious performance implications for people, etc. who work a lot with a view to understanding what the long-running events actually aretheir calendar.
References: httpSee also [https://shaverbugzilla.offmozilla.net/diary/2007/08/25/tbeachball/ and http://shaver.off.net/miscorg/latency-tracing-patchshow_bug.txtcgi?id=352976 Bug 352976]
== Mozilla Developer Virtual Appliance ==Resources: ctalbert, daniel in #calendar on irc.mozilla.org
Create a Linux-based virtual machine with all the necessary build, development, and testing tools necessary == <strike>[[Spellcheck Extension for working on Mozilla. This virtual appliance would be targeted at developers not familiar with the Mozilla toolchain and wanted to get started.Arbitrary Web Pages]]</strike> ==
== Add support <strike>Write an extension to leverage the existing spellcheck code in Mozilla and add the ability to highlight spelling mistakes for more compilers to distcc ==a given web page (i.e., vs. a textbox).</strike>
An earlier project [[Adding Compilers == <strike>Modify Firefox to Distcc|added multi-compiler support handle files downloaded to distcc]], and then [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]]. The framework is now in place to support even Temp more compilers. Add support for another compiler, perhaps Java, C#, or something else.appropriately </strike>==
Necessary Skills<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: C, Python, Makefile
== Port distcc * 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 MSYS ==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
The recent work to add [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]] to distcc works using the cygwin build environmentOther ideas are possible, and a combination of these might be necessary. HoweverUltimately, since this project was completed, Mozilla has switched to MSYS (see fix should target regular users without much knowledge of the [http://developer.mozillafilesystem.org/en</docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites Mozilla Win32 build docs). Port distcc so that it works with the new MSYS environment.strike>
ReferencesResources: Cesar and Tomted, mfinkle
The recent work to add [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]] to distcc only allows for a single file to be sent back from build slaves. This means that extra debugging info (e.g., .pdb files) cannot be sent with binaries. Modify distcc so that it can support debug Mozilla builds.== Standalone Test Harnesses ==
ReferencesMozilla uses several systems for [http: Cesar //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 Tomallow more people to get involved with automated testing.
== Add password managers for various platforms ==* References: http://xoatlicue.blogspot.com/2008/01/standalone-test-product.html* Possible Resources: Ben Hearsum
Previous work was done on adding [[OS X Keychain integration]] == Add source checkout to Firefox. This work was focused on tightly binding C++ and Mac API calls. Since then more work has been done to [http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2007/05/28/followup-password-manager-changes-coming-in-ff3-alpha-5/ modularize the password manager] in Firefox. Various platform "keychains" need to be integrated with the new system. See bugs [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309807 309807], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?idbuildbot =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].
== Convert password storage Unlike many open source projects, it's not possible to do a SQLite database ==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.
CurrentlyIncreasingly, Firefox stores logins in a text file in Mozilla is moving toward using the user's profile (signons2Python based buildbot system for automated builds and tests.txt) It would be good to add a Source class for client. The format is simple, but inflexiblemk checkouts. Storage This would mean creating a a general Source class that understands the idea of other browser datachecking out a file, such as cookies and form history, has steadily been moving towards using SQLite-backed databases so moving password storage which could then be used to drive the same kind of storage would be good. Some work was started in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bugcheckout and allow for integration with client.cgi?id=288040 bug 288040]mk.
== Support for OpenID ==References: Ben Hearsum (bhearsum), Rob Helmer (rhelmer)
[http://openid.net/ OpenID] is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. It's built on existing web technologies so that it can work without special support in == Port the browser. However, tighter browser integration could allow for increased security and easier management. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?idFirefox Release Repackager to other platforms ==356853 bug 356853]. Needs definition as to exactly what should be done and how. Could be initially implemented as an extension.
== Refactor master password out The [http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/release-repackager/ Firefox Release Repackager] allows one to take a released version of NSS ==the browser, deconstruct it in order to add some custom extension, then repackage it. This allows organizations to ship slightly modified versions of stock releases, useful for their users. Currently the repackager only works on Mac.
Users Port this tool to Windows and/or Linux. In order to do this you'll need platform binaries of 7zip, or perhaps you can enable use P7zip to do a "master password" in their browser, which securely encrypts all their stored passwordscross platform version. The current implementation There are other ideas that can be awkward added to use and has some limitations, see [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322617 bug 322617]. Fixing this would involve having password manager being tool as well for making it more involved with the cryptography operations -- deriving a key from a passphrase with PKCS#5, and using NSS and PKCS#11 to encrypt/decrypt entriesflexible.
== Add Offline Support to an open source web app ==Resources: mkaply, bsmedberg
Firefox 3 will == gdb symbol server 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 [http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/02/offline-zimbra-with-firefox.html porting Zimbra]. Pick another web app and add offline support, for example: [http://moodle.org Moodle].==
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.Resources: sayrer
Write Create a simple (i.e., nothing more than a simple "save session") extension to leverage the existing [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Session_restore_API Session Store APIPlugins plugin] in order to allow the user to save his/her test suite. There are currently open tabs no tests of any kind, and this code is very brittle and restore themnot well understood. This is similar would involve creating a plugin or set of plugins and some html/js to drive that plugin in order to what Firefox does when it unexpectedly crashes and gives push test coverage. Maybe look at the user the option JRE tests, create some specific plugin cases (e.g., swf to restore a previous sessionload that tests flash specific code). NOTEThe newly announced Google Chromium browser [http: there are extensions that do //dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/getting-around-the-chrome-source-code seems to have something like this already, but many of them are more feature rich than need be] with regard to using the npapi for driving tests via plug-in. See also docs on [http://wwwdev.beltznerchromium.caorg/mikedevelopers/archivesdesign-documents/2007inter-process-communication IPC] and [http:/05/28dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/resurrect_your_session.html this blog postplugin-architecture plug-in design]in Chromium.
== Thunderbird Picture Preview ==This will require C programming, as well as light web development (html, js, perhaps swf).
Write an extension for Thunderbird that allows the user to start a slideshow preview of all images in the current message. The feature would work like thisResources: when a mail arrives with pictures attached, a button or some other UI is added to the message that allows the slideshow to begin. When clicked, the images are shown one after the other, properly scaled to fit in the window. Consider using [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Canvas_tutorial Canvas] to do the custom graphics, and take a look at [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/556 this existing Thunderbird extension] for ideas. jst
Using the accumulated knowledge of the [[Extending the Buildbot|buildbot]] and [[Distcc With MSVC|distcc]] projectsMozilla 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, and using the physical resources of [[for which Mozilla@Seneca Cluster Administration|Hera]], has no symbols. This project would create a crossweb-platform distributed 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 suitable for testing patches to Mozillado it automatically with each release. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419879 bug# 419879].
== [[Bugzilla component-watching]] ==Resources: ted
It's common for a developer == <strike>Add OpenLayers test suite to want to "watch" all the bugs that are filed in a certain [https:/Mozilla </bugzilla.mozilla.org Bugzilla] component. Mozilla uses a convoluted and painful system of synthetic accounts to simulate this capability, and we'd all really prefer to be able to do it more directly and with less opportunity for error.strike>==
Reference<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=76794 Bug 76794399311 bug# 399311].
== Automated Testing ==Resources: sayrer</strike>
Programmatically driving the browser to perform human-like tasks repeatedly. The programmer will have to create a framework for driving browser components in JavaScript or other scripting language to repeatedly == <strike>Import sqlite test various pieces of the application. Ideally, the successful completion of this task will see a test or suite of tests that can be invoked by command line to start the browser, run the test suites and then exit and record the results for display or analysis.</strike> ==
Reference<strike>Mozilla uses an embedded version of [http://www.sqlite.org/ SQLite] extensively to [http: Work with //developer.mozilla.org/en/storage 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 Rob Campbell tests, so that testing the browser also means testing sqlite. The sqlite test suite is written in TCL and Jay Patel from the QA Teamneeds to be ported to JavaScript. See also Some [http://labsmxr.mozilla.comorg/mozilla-central/2007source/09storage/coscriptertest/unit/test_like.js work has already been done], but more is required to get full test coverage.
We wanted to have an extension that would be able to serve users testcases to try and allow them to submit results to [httpResources:sdwilsh <//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-g|David Hamp-Gonsalves]], who created the Buggy Bar extension.strike>
== Take : [["Avoid loading the same page twice" Extension]http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Import_sqlite_test_suite Park,KiWon] ==
Create an extension to Firefox so that when a bookmark is clicked, and that site is already open == Make chromebug work in any tab in any window, that tab/window is brought to the front rather than loading the page again.Thunderbird ==
Related tech and skills: XUL, JavaScriptTBD
[http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Firefox Tinderbox] is a web app showing the results of multiple machines building Firefox, running unit tests on it, and running performance tests on it, all on three different platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac). The display is very crowded right now, and can be difficult to read. In addition, some of the interesting information (changes in performance, for example) are hard to notice. The tinderbox server software recently was updated to include [http://www.json.org/ JSON] output, which means that webpages can now easily access the data to build their own displays. Using this data, create a new display for the Tinderbox data that helps developers monitor the status of the builds and performance data.TBD
* [http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/Firefox/json.js Tinderbox JSON data]* [http://people.mozilla.org/~rhelmer/mockups/tinderbox/ajax.html An example page using the data]* [http://mavra.perilith.com/~luser/tboxtest.html Another example page using the data]. (Requires a [http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ recent Firefox 3 build])== Help Calendar integration on Trunk ==
== Buildbot and EC2 ==TBD
[httpResources://buildbot.net/trac The BuildBot] is software for automatically building and testing other software. [http://aws.amazon.com/ec2 EC2] is Amazon's "Elastic Compute Cloud", a service that lets you run Virtual Machines on Amazon's computing grid using a web API. It would be awesome if BuildBot had an EC2 module, and could spawn Virtual Machines on-demand to perform tasks. Conveniently, BuildBot is written in Python, and there's [http://code.google.com/p/boto/ a Python library for interfacing with EC2].Fallen
References: [http://jimmyg.org/2007/09/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefer-debian-and-python-over-fedora-and-java/ Amazon EC2 Basics For Python Programmers]
== Firebug "linting" for portability problems ==
Lots of web developers use Firebug and Firefox for building their applications, but we want those apps to work well in other browsers as well. If Firebug knew about JS or CSS patterns that could cause problems in other browsers, it would make it much easier to have those applications work in all browsers.== HTML page set sanitizer ==
== Add-The Talos performance testing system at Mozilla currently runs on update helper tools a large set of web pages pulled from the Alexa Top 500. These 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 developers ==people to duplicate the Talos results or to test changes that have an expected performance impact.
As Firefox 3 gets ramped upA useful solution to this problem would be a tool that takes a mirrored copy of a website and "sanitizes" it, there are nearly 3000 add-ons that need to get updated to some degree. Write tools by changing the page text and image contents (web making them junk or XULRunnerfiller text or something) to look in add-ons and find things . The caveat here is that developers will need to updatethis *cannot* change the performance characteristics of the page. You'll want to work For example, taking a page that is all Chinese text and replacing it with "Lorem Ipsum" filler text would cause the Mozilla documentation and evangelism teams page to figure out take different text rendering paths, which would change what you're looking for is measured. As another example, making all JPEG images solid black would likely make them decode and what to recommend to usersrender much faster. Any solution should have some analysis performed that shows that performance is not significantly altered in the sanitized page set.
== Make FUEL work with Firefox 2 ==Resources: ted (but find someone better!)
Mozilla's [http://wiki.mozilla.org/FUEL FUEL] (Firefox User Extension == 3D object picking ==Canvas 3D JS Library) is a JavaScript Library designed library for the creation and manipulation of 3D scenes in the browser without needing to help developers build extensions using terminology and interfaces that are more familiar know much 3D programming. Part of this project is to themhandle mouse input. Currently it works with Firefox 3, but it would be helpful This particular project looks at how to have it work with Firefox 2 as wellperform "picking". Work toward having That is, when given a coordinate within the existing [http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/find?string=fuel%2Ftest%2Fbrowser_ FUEL Tests] pass for Firefox 2canvas, return the 3D object at that location.
== Benchmark SVG ==Resources: cathy, Andor (http://www.c3dl.org)
Benchmark SVG performance and look for areas of the code that could be optimized.= Potential OOo Projects =
Resources: #mozpad== [[Sample Project]] ==
== XULRunner Application Packaging ==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 stubs below. This is how you 'sign-up' for a project.
Help NOTE: if someone has already created the project page, speak to develop an [http://wwwthis person and see if you can join them.mozpad.org/doku If so, simply add your name to the '''Project Leader(s)''' page.php?id=application_build_system_project automated packaging system] for XULRunner applications Otherwise, you can become a contributor later.
Resources: plasticmillion, mfinkle, #mozpad== Generate an OOo XREF based on Dehydra ==
== Expose DBUS to XPCOM ==Using Dehydra, build OOo and generate an xref in the same way we are indexing for dxr.
The desktop bus ([httpTODO://wwwmore info.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus DBUS]) is used to communicate between desktop components on a Linux (or Unix) system. If this was exposed 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.php/D-Bus_and_other_Linux_desktop_integration_improvements previous work] in this area. Resources: RH online desktop team.
== Embeddable HTTP Engine ==Resources: humph, taras
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 [http://svn.mugshot== Existing Subjects proposed by OpenOffice.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.Education Project ==
== Desktop Social Networking Integration ==FIXME : the projects proposed on the OpenOffice.org Education Project will be adapted to the current section.
Alter Waiting we encourage you to have a look at the '''[http://wiki.mozillaservices.openoffice.org/Labswiki/The_Coop The Coop] experimental extension so it uses generic API instead of Facebook specifically; put the generic API in the "desktop data engine" also used by [http:Education_Project//live.gnomeEffort OpenOffice.org/OnlineDesktop/Sidebar BigBoardEducation Project Effort page] (and hopefully other desktop apps in the future). Resources: RH online desktop team.'''
== Radio Button Bookmarks Extension ==Other links:
Create an extension to provide [http://groupswiki.googleservices.comopenoffice.org/groupwiki/mozilla.dev.appsEducation_Project OpenOffice.firefox/browse_thread/thread/f2eeb10d0436af3f radio-button style bookmarksorg Education Project on the Wiki].
== Web-based Virtual Machine Management ==
Create a web-based rapid provisioning system for virtual machines, building on work started by Ben Hearsum. A user could select an operating system[[User:Ericb|Ericb]] 21:05, toolchain, and source branch and the VM would be configured and started 26 September 2008 (using Xen, KVM, or another hypervisor/backendUTC). Resources: bhearsum
= Introduction =
This is a list of potential projects that need people. 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.
'''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.
== 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 [[Mozilla Source and Symbol ServerUser: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 Contact: Jesse Keating == Port Wubi to Fedora == If upstream is willing to integrate it, port wubi-installer and make it more cross distribution. Otherwise, provide a similar implementation for Fedora. http://wubi-installer.org/ == Delta RPM support in Koji build system == * https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/160 == Benchmark Nightlife Scalability Issues == Using Puppet, or some other management tool, create a grid of a dozen machines, then turn that into 12,000 machines. Address the network characteristics - how much bandwidth do you need on different components, the communication mechanisms - does UDP work at such a scale, the grid topology - what happens when two nodes are behind firewalls. Resource: [[:fedora:Nightlife|Nightlife wiki page]], Matthew Farrellee
== Create a source code server to work with Mozilla's current symbol server. This will allow users to do full debugs of nightly release builds with access to remote symbols and full source code.Test Suite for Condor ==
== Add OpenID support to Bugzilla Review Packages ==
== Full-Text History Search extension = Review Requests ===
== Mozilla Tree Visualization [[Sample Project]] ==
== Localize Mozilla Thunderbird SMTP Auto-Sensing ==
== My Favicons extension <strike>XULRunner Application Packaging ==
== Tbeachball - Quantifying 'Compact databases' feature for Mozilla's Responsiveness calendaring applications (Lightning, Sunbird) ==
See also: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280419 bug 280419] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id= Add Multi369108 bug 369108], and code [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-File transfer to distcc ==central/source/uriloader/exthandler/nsExternalHelperAppService.cpp#2077 here].
Microsoft's debugger allows the use of a symbol server, which it can use to download debugging symbols for programs and libraries. [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_the_Mozilla_symbol_server Mozilla provides this] for nightly and release builds on Windows, and it'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 extended to look for the symbols on a web server first. References:# https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=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 Resources: ted, Stan Shebs, Jim Blandy == gdb support for minidumps for post-mortem debugging == 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 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. References:# http://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 Resources: ted, Stan Shebs, Jim Blandy == RegressionTry = = Make it possible to look for bugs across old nightly builds of Firefox using automated tools. For example, [http://db48x.net/regression-search/ regression-search] is a script that allows you to do binary searches across binaries, looking for the existence of a bug. This could be improved through the use of tools like [http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/coscripter/browse/about co-scripter]. Ideally the user could look for bugs in automated ways, without having to download and install tons of browser versions. Resources: db48x, ted == Extend Try Server to test Thunderbird SMTP Autopatches == "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, as described in bug 431375" ([http://ascher.ca/blog/2008/05/02/thunderbird-Sensing team-needs-help-from-pythonperl-build-assist/ Ascher]) == Add DTrace probes and scripts for Mozilla code base == [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.
== Firefox Session Saver Extension Plugin Code Test Suite ==
== [[CrossCreate self-Platform Mozilla Build Farm]] serve symbol upload system ==
References: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391756 bug 391756], http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p= Litmus Extension ==368
== Tinderbox front page improvements Help gristmill move forward in Thunderbird ==
