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Create a source code server to work with Mozilla's current symbol serverLots of good ideas are listed in [[:fedora:SummerCoding/2008/Ideas|Summer Coding Ideas (Fedora Wiki)]]. This will allow users These projects were originally proposed for Google Summer of Code projects; if you want to do full debugs use one of nightly release builds them, please discuss it with access to remote symbols [[User:Chris Tyler|Chris Tyler]] before selecting it, because the scope and full source codementorship model for GSOC is different from that of the LUX projects.
The canvas3d extension Cobbler is a binary C++ component Linux install server that adds 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 3D OpenGL drawing context to the HTML canvas elementweb interface that allows users an easier way of interacting with cobbler. There are several core improvements that can be made. Currently canvas3d works One idea is to extend cobbler web to produce views that make it easier for users to edit fields that only on Windowsthey edit (let me reinstall systems I own but don't show me fields I shouldn't care about). Port Another is to enable search features in the code web app to make it tolerate thousands of systems to Linux and/or Mac OS X. Porting involves implementing a pbuffer class for each new platformbetter extent. Some familiarity with OpenGLFinally, or another feature is to add a willingness task engine to cobblerd, to learn make it, is requiredpossible 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.
ResourcesPossible 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: Cathy, Vlad//fedorahosted.org/cobbler/report/1?sort=type&asc=1
== Add OpenID support to Bugzilla ==Resources: http://fedoraproject.org/cobbler
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 support in bugzilla.Contact: Michael DeHaan
References: see [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294608 bug 294608]= Personal Koji Repositories ==
== Full-Text History Search extension ==Koji Personal Repos (KoPeR) is a concept to allow Fedora maintainers to create personal repos of packages to build against and share with others.
Firefox3 probably won't ship with support for full-text history search, even though url-bar autocomplete (with urlsResources: http:/titles) is a really great feature/idea. Write an extension in order to add this featurefedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/KojiPersonalRepos
ReferencesContact: http://skrul.com/blog/projects/xpclucene/Jesse Keating
Use the canvas element in order If upstream is willing to create a generic frontintegrate it, port wubi-end for data visualization of the Mozilla source. Many types of information about the Mozilla project can be keyed to the source treeinstaller and make it more cross distribution. For exampleOtherwise, file change-rates, code-coverage, bug activity per module, checkins per module, etc. The visualization will be provide a heatmap, showing certain types of activity in the tree. Doing this visualizaiton using canvas3d would allow similar implementation for a third axis, and changes over time to be shownFedora.
== Mozilla Data Visualization Backhttp://wubi-ends ==installer.org/
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 == Delta RPM support in a heatmap visualization.Koji build system ==
== Plugin-watcher == * https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/160
Firefox sometimes gets a bad reputation for crashing or locking up when a plugin such as Adobe Flash or Windows Media Player causes the problem. Add code to Firefox (or write an extension) so that when a plugin misbehaves, a dialog 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 to 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 is 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).== Benchmark Nightlife Scalability Issues ==
== Improve Mozilla Application and Platform Documentation ==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.
Not enough is understood about the various communities and companies who develop with Mozilla, as opposed to those who work on the Mozilla code itself. A proper survey needs to be conducted in order to find out which APIs are being used and how, what is hard, what could be improved, etc. The Resource: [[http://www.mozpad.org Mozilla Platform Application Developersfedora:Nightlife|Nightlife wiki page]] is interested in changing this. Their goal is to 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 to connect with projects/companies in orbit around Mozilla and do interviews with their developers. You will then document this information.Matthew Farrellee
* References: http://www.mozpad.org/doku.php?id=actionitem:documentation_proposal* See also: http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/06/xulrunner-wishlist/ and http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/1826* Contacts: plasticmillion= Create Test Suite for Condor ==
== Localize Mozilla ==Along with a good build infrastructure, a strong test framework and methodology is key to survival of modern software. Condor is a system that is shipped on, currently, 14 different platforms - 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.
Join a localization team (see httpResource://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Localization) and help localize Mozilla into a language other than English, for example, [http[:fedora://blog.mozilla.com/ligong/2007/07/11/firefox-cn-localization-liaison-group-started/ ChineseNightlife|Nightlife wiki page].], Matthew Farrellee
One recent suggestion is to do en-CA and fr-CA localizations for Canadian users- Below: Commented out by Chris Tyler 2008-08-31 -- I think we'll get all the students doing this.
* References: Mic, Alix== Review Packages ==
== Testing There is a lot of Canadian Banking packages in Fedora waiting for someone to 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 Financial Sites packaging in Mozilla ==general.
This project will focus on improving the user experience at banking The general process is described in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/HowToGetSponsored and other financial sites for Canadian Mozilla usersin http://fedoraproject. This includes determining which sites are relevant, insuring proper behavior for Firefox 3 on these sites, etcorg/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines.
References: http://quality.mozilla.org/node/293=== Review Requests ===
== My Favicons extension ==* Unassigned review requests - http://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/NEW.html* In progress review requests - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/InProgressReviewRequests* Approved review requests - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/ApprovedReviewRequests-->
Write an extension to allow the user to pick his/her own favicons for sites, based on a URL regexp. 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 disk. Ideally, it should also be possible to export the regexp -> icon mapping as a regexp -> data URI mapping that can be imported into another profile.= Potential Mozilla Projects =
References: http://blog.vlad1.com/archives/2007/08/10/151/== [[Sample Project]] ==
== Tbeachball 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- Quantifying Mozillaup's Responsiveness == for a project.
This NOTE: if someone has already created the project will add instrumentation to Mozilla in order page, speak to determine how much time is spent away from the main event loop, this person and therefore from the user's mouse/keyboard inputsee if you can join them. When the user does somethingIf so, how long does it take for Mozilla simply add your name 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, not being noticed and acted upon'''Project Leader(s)''' page. This could also be expanded in order to include the triggering of log points and specific dialog openingsOtherwise, etc. with you can become a view to understanding what the long-running events actually arecontributor later.
References: http://shaver.off.net/diary/2007/08/25/tbeachball/ and http://shaver.off.net/misc/latency-tracing-patch.txt== Improve Localization build system ==
== Mozilla Developer Virtual Appliance ==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.
Create Adding a Linux-based virtual machine with all the necessary build, development, and testing tools necessary for working on Mozillafew make steps to wrap this process would help everyone. This virtual appliance would be targeted at developers not familiar with is a very easy project to tackle but very benefitial if the Mozilla toolchain time and wanted love is given to get startedit.
== Add support for more compilers to distcc ==Reference: armenzg
An earlier project [[Adding Compilers == Create a cross-repo pushlog to see all locales's checkins ==We currently check many different repositories to Distcc|added multi-compiler support trigger builds when a developer makes a change. We also check the localizer's repositories to distcc]], and then [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]]see if they have pushed any changes. The framework problem is now in place that we have close to eighty different localization repositories and that takes a long time to support even 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 compilerslike this:http://hg. Add support mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushlogwhich is what our release engineering systems check for another compiler, perhaps Java, C#, or something else.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.
Necessary SkillsReference: C, Python, Makefilearmenzg - Bug 498641
The recent work to add [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]] to distcc works using Modify Thunderbird so that it uses the cygwin build environmentcorrect SMTP server for your current network and IP. HoweverIn other words, if you are at home, since this project was completeduse your home ISP's SMTP, Mozilla has switched but if you use a school wireless network, switch to MSYS (see the [http://developerschool's SMTP.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites Mozilla Win32 build docs) 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. Port distcc so that Rather, it works with the new MSYS environmentshould be configurable in an options dialog.
== Add Multi-File transfer to distcc ==
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.
References: Cesar and Tom== <strike>XULRunner Application Packaging ==
Previous work was done on adding [[OS X Keychain integration]] 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?id=106400 106400], and also [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371000 371000352976 Bug 352976]. See also [http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-August/msg00241.html this e-mail message].
== Convert password storage to a SQLite database ==Resources: ctalbert, daniel in #calendar on irc.mozilla.org
Currently, 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 to the same kind of storage would be good. Some work was started in == <strike>[https:[Spellcheck Extension for Arbitrary Web Pages]]<//bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?idstrike> ==288040 bug 288040].
== Support <strike>Write an extension to leverage the existing spellcheck code in Mozilla and add the ability to highlight spelling mistakes for OpenID ==a given web page (i.e., vs. a textbox).</strike>
[http:== <strike>Modify Firefox to handle files downloaded to Temp more appropriately <//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 the browser. However, tighter browser integration could allow for increased security and easier management. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?idstrike>==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 <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 NSS ==important files being saved to this temp folder. This project will add fixes to the browser so that users are protected. Ideas include:
Users can enable a "master password" in their browser* Make Firefox aware of common productivity file types (e.g., .doc, which securely encrypts all their stored passwords. The current implementation can be awkward pdf) and whitelist these types so they aren't deleted* Have office type files download automatically to use 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 some limitationsnot 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), see [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgialert the user that these files are still there (similar to "New Session or Restart Existing?id=322617 bug 322617]. Fixing this would involve having password manager being more involved with " dialog)* Have the cryptography operations -browser pop- deriving up a key from a passphrase with PKCS#5Save As dialog instead of automatically saving to temp, and using NSS and PKCS#11 to encrypt/decrypt entries. use a documents path
== Add Offline Support to an open source web app ==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>
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 [httpResources://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/02/offline-zimbra-with-firefox.html porting Zimbra]. Pick another web app and add offline supportted, for example: [http://moodle.org Moodle].mfinkle
Modify Thunderbird so that it uses "Specifically, Mozilla has a great system called “try servers” where one can submit patches against the correct SMTP server for your current network tree, and IP. In other wordsthe build system runs builds on Linux, if you are at homeMac and Windows, use your home ISP's SMTPusing those patches, but then serves those builds for testing. This is really helpful to figure out if you use proposed patches solve specific problems...The only problem is that there’s a school wireless network, switch little bit of patching needed to the school's SMTP. These various SMTP configurations should be manually controlled by the user, that is, you don't have try server code itself to try and figure out which SMTP make it able to use. Ratherwork with other targets besides Firefox, it should be configurable as described in an options dialogbug 431375" ([http://ascher.ca/blog/2008/05/02/thunderbird-team-needs-help-from-pythonperl-build-assist/ Ascher])
Write a simple (i.e., nothing more than a simple "save session") extension to leverage the existing [http://developeren.mozillawikipedia.org/en/docswiki/Session_restore_API Session Store APIDTrace DTrace] was created by Sun in order OpenSolaris to allow the user developers to write simple scripts in order to save his/her currently open tabs probe and restore theminstrument executing programs in a way not possible otherwise. This One of the advantages of DTrace is similar that it allows you to what Firefox does turn on probing when you need it unexpectedly crashes and gives the user the option , but not incur an execution penalty with regard to restore a previous sessionperformance (i.e., when probes aren't being scripted, they aren't run). NOTE: there are extensions that do this already, but many of them are more feature rich than need beThis requires developers to add "probes" to their source code. See also [http:For example, if you wanted to know when a particular function is entered//wwwexited, get info about what happened, etc.beltzneryou could add probes to the particular function.ca/mike/archives/2007/05/28/resurrect_your_session.html this blog post] Writing the probes is not difficult, however there are hundreds or thousands of probes that Mozilla would like across its code base.
== Thunderbird Picture Preview ==Resources: sayrer
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 this: 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. == Plugin Code Test Suite ==
== 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 [Crosshttp://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/inter-process-Platform Mozilla Build Farmcommunication IPC]and [http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/plugin-architecture plug-in design] ==in Chromium.
Using the accumulated knowledge of the [[Extending the Buildbot|buildbot]] and [[Distcc With MSVC|distcc]] projectsThis will require C programming, and using the physical resources of [[Mozilla@Seneca Cluster Administration|Hera]]as well as light web development (html, create a cross-platform distributed build system suitable for testing patches to Mozillajs, perhaps swf).
== [[Bugzilla component-watching]] ==Resources: jst
It's common for a developer to want to "watch" all the bugs that are filed in a certain [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org Bugzilla] component. Mozilla uses a convoluted and painful == Create self-serve symbol upload 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.==
Reference: Mozilla 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, for 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=76794 Bug 76794419879 bug# 419879].
== Automated Testing ==Resources: ted
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>Add OpenLayers 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.Mozilla </strike>==
Reference<strike>Mozilla [http: Work with Mozilla//mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/tests/mochitest/ajax/ uses] many common JavaScript library test suites to add additional coverage to it's Rob Campbell and Jay Patel from JavaScript implementation. One test suite that is not currently used by Mozilla, but could be, is the QA Team[http://openlayers. See also org OpenLayer's] js [http://labstrac.mozillaopenlayers.comorg/browser/trunk/openlayers/2007tests test suite]. See [https:/09/coscripterbugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399311 bug# 399311].
== Litmus Extension ==Resources: sayrer</strike>
We wanted to have an extension that would be able to serve users testcases to try and allow them to submit results to [http:== <strike>Import sqlite test suite<//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> ==
== <strike>Mozilla uses an embedded version of [http://www.sqlite.org/ SQLite] extensively to ["Avoid loading http://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 same page twice" Extension]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 [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/storage/test/unit/test_like.js work has already been done] ==, but more is required to get full test coverage.
Create an extension to Firefox so that when a bookmark is clickedReferences: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391756 bug 391756], and that site is already open in any tab in any window, that tabhttp://window is brought to the front rather than loading the page againwww.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=368
Related tech and skillsResources: XUL, JavaScriptsdwilsh </strike>
== Tinderbox front page improvements ==Take : [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Import_sqlite_test_suite Park,KiWon]
[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 = Make chromebug work 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.Thunderbird ==
* [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])TBD
[http://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].TBD
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]== Help Calendar integration on Trunk ==
== Firebug "linting" for portability problems ==TBD
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.Resources: Fallen
== Add-on update helper tools for developers ==
As Firefox 3 gets ramped up, there are nearly 3000 add-ons that need 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.
== Benchmark SVG ==A useful solution to 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.
Benchmark SVG performance and look for areas of the code that could be optimized.Resources: ted (but find someone better!)
Resources: #mozpad== 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 mouse input. This particular project looks at how to perform "picking". That is, when given a coordinate within the canvas, return the 3D object at that location.
== XULRunner Application Packaging ==Resources: cathy, Andor (http://www.c3dl.org)
Help to develop an [http://www.mozpad.org/doku.php?id=application_build_system_project automated packaging system] for XULRunner applications.Potential OOo Projects =
Resources: plasticmillion, mfinkle, #mozpad== [[Sample Project]] ==
== Expose DBUS This is a sample project stub. You can use the template for [[Sample Project]] in order to XPCOM ==create a project page for one of the stubs below. This is how you 'sign-up' for a project.
The desktop bus ([httpNOTE://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus DBUS]) is used if someone has already created the project page, speak to communicate between desktop components on a Linux (or Unix) systemthis person and see if you can join them. If this was exposed so, simply add your name to XPCOM objects for bidirectional communication then tighter integration between the desktop and the browser could be achieved'''Project Leader(s)''' page. 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 Otherwise, you can become a contributor later.
Create an HTTP facility (transportUsing Dehydra, not rendering) for desktop apps that shares cache build OOo and cookies with the browser -- basically export the firefox http engine. A dbus-exported [http://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 generate an xref in the dbus daemon same way we are indexing for large files, and use Firefox instead of libcurl. One challenge is making this work when Firefox is not running. Resources: RH online desktop teamdxr.
== Desktop Social Networking Integration ==TODO: more info....
Alter [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/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://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop/Sidebar BigBoard] (and hopefully other desktop apps in the future). Resources: RH online desktop team.humph, taras
Create an extension to provide [httpFIXME ://groupsthe projects proposed on the OpenOffice.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/f2eeb10d0436af3f radio-button style bookmarks]org Education Project will be adapted to the current section.
== Localized Search in Firefox Search Box ==Waiting we encourage you to have a look at the '''[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/Effort OpenOffice.org Education Project Effort page]'''
Firefox features a search box that can be customized to work with different search engines (e.g., Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia). Most websites have their own search facilities, but the location of the search box on the page varies considerably. Create a mechanism for Firefox to pick up a website's search mechanism and make it accessible to the user through the Firefox search box, so that users have a consistent place to look for site-specific search. This might use a mechanism similar to [httpOther links://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery feed autodiscovery].
Resources[http: myk//wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project OpenOffice.org Education Project on the Wiki]
== Universal Firefox on a USB Key ==
Create a portable USB installation of Firefox that will work on all of Windows[[User:Ericb|Ericb]] 21:05, Linux, and Mac. Currently there are binaries for doing this with Windows/Linux. You'll need to get binaries for the app on each platform, figure out how to share a common profile, and get it all on a single USB key. Some existing work in this area has been done, and could be built upon.26 September 2008 (UTC)
= 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.
== [[Mozilla Source and Symbol Server]] Ideas Pool ==
== Port canvas3d to non-Windows platforms Cobbler Web ==
== Mozilla Tree Visualization Port Wubi to Fedora ==
== Port distcc to MSYS Thunderbird SMTP Auto-Sensing ==
References: Cesar and Tom#maildev
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> == Add password managers 'Compact databases' feature for various platforms 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=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 == The [http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/release-repackager/ Firefox Release Repackager] allows one to take a released version of 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. 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. Resources: mkaply, bsmedberg == gdb symbol server support == 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 Auto-Sensing patches ==
== Firefox Session Saver Extension Add DTrace probes and scripts for Mozilla code base ==
== Buildbot and EC2 Help gristmill move forward in Thunderbird ==
== Make FUEL work with Firefox 2 HTML page set sanitizer ==
The Talos performance testing system at Mozillacurrently runs on a large set of web pages pulled from the Alexa Top 500. These pages can's [http://wikit be redistributed, since they're mirrors of copyrighted web pages.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 In addition, many of themcontain adult content. Currently This makes it works with Firefox 3, but it would be helpful difficult for people to duplicate the Talos results or to test changes that have it work with Firefox 2 as well. Work toward having the existing [http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/find?string=fuel%2Ftest%2Fbrowser_ FUEL Tests] pass for Firefox 2an expected performance impact.
== Embeddable HTTP Engine Generate an OOo XREF based on Dehydra ==
== Radio Button Bookmarks Extension Existing Subjects proposed by OpenOffice.org Education Project ==
