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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.== [[Sample Project]] ==
== Port canvas3d This is a sample project stub. You can use the template for [[Sample Project]] in order to noncreate a project page for one of the stubs below. This is how you 'sign-Windows platforms ==up' for a project.
The canvas3d extension is a binary C++ component that adds a 3D OpenGL drawing context to NOTE: if someone has already created the HTML canvas element. Currently canvas3d works only on Windows. Port the code project page, speak to Linux this person and/or Mac OS Xsee if you can join them. Porting involves implementing a pbuffer class for each new platformIf so, simply add your name to the '''Project Leader(s)''' page. Some familiarity with OpenGLOtherwise, or you can become a willingness to learn it, is requiredcontributor later.
Resources: Cathy, Vlad.== Improve Localization build system ==
== Add OpenID support Currently it requires many many steps to Bugzilla ==produce another language of Firefox.It would really easy to package these many steps to reduce the required knowledge to generate a new language.
Many open source projects rely on bugzilla for bug tracking, 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 open source developers use different instances, forcing them love is given to have multiple logins. Complete OpenID support in bugzillait.
ReferencesReference: see [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294608 bug 294608]armenzg
Firefox3 probably won't ship with support for fullReference: armenzg -text history search, even though url-bar autocomplete (with urls/titles) is a really great feature/idea. Write an extension in order to add this feature.Bug 498641
References: http://skrul.com/blog/projects/xpclucene/== Thunderbird SMTP Auto-Sensing ==
== Mozilla Tree Visualization ==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.
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.References: #maildev
== Mozilla Data Visualization Back-ends ==
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.
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 hardResources: plasticmillion, what could be improvedmfinkle, etc. The [http://www.#mozpad.org Mozilla Platform Application Developers] 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#prism</companies in orbit around Mozilla and do interviews with their developers. You will then document this information.strike>
* 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= 'Compact databases' feature for Mozilla calendaring applications (Lightning, Sunbird) ==
== Localize Mozilla ==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.
Join a localization team (see httpSee also [https://developerbugzilla.mozilla.org/en/docs/Localization) and help localize Mozilla into a language other than English, for example, [http://blog.mozillashow_bug.com/ligong/2007/07/11/firefox-cn-localization-liaison-group-started/ Chinesecgi?id=352976 Bug 352976].
One recent suggestion is to do en-CA and fr-CA localizations for Canadian usersResources: ctalbert, daniel in #calendar on irc.mozilla.org
* References: Mic, Alix== <strike>[[Spellcheck Extension for Arbitrary Web Pages]]</strike> ==
== Testing of Canadian Banking and Financial Sites <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>
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 == <strike>Modify Firefox 3 on these sites, etc.to handle files downloaded to Temp more appropriately </strike>==
References: http://quality<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.mozilla This project will add fixes to the browser so that users are protected.org/node/293 Ideas include:
== My Favicons extension ==* 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
Write an extension to allow the user to pick his/her own favicons for sitesOther ideas are possible, based on and a URL regexpcombination of these might be necessary. The image Ultimately, this fix should get stored as part target regular users without much knowledge of the user’s profile, so that it doesn’t have to live in the same place on the user’s diskfilesystem. Ideally, it should also be possible to export the regexp -</strike> icon mapping as a regexp -> data URI mapping that can be imported into another profile.
ReferencesResources: http://blog.vlad1.com/archives/2007/08/10/151/ted, mfinkle
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 something, 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 user, such as mouse clicks or keypresses, not being noticed and acted upon. This could also be expanded in order to include the triggering of log points and specific dialog openings, etc. with a view to understanding what the long-running events actually are.== Standalone Test Harnesses ==
ReferencesMozilla 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://shaverdeveloper.offmozilla.netorg/en/docs/diaryMozilla_automated_testing#Reftest Reftest], [http:/2007/08developer.mozilla.org/25en/tbeachballdocs/ Writing_xpcshell-based_unit_tests xpcshell unit tests], and [http://shaverdeveloper.offmozilla.netorg/en/miscdocs/latencyMozilla_automated_testing#Crash_tests crash tests]. Currently, to run these test suites or develop new tests, you need to build your own Firefox with -tracing-patchenable-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.txt
== Mozilla Developer Virtual Appliance ==* References: http://xoatlicue.blogspot.com/2008/01/standalone-test-product.html* Possible Resources: Ben Hearsum
Create a Linux-based virtual machine with all the necessary build, development, and testing tools necessary for working on Mozilla. This virtual appliance would be targeted at developers not familiar with the Mozilla toolchain and wanted == Add source checkout to get started.buildbot ==
== Add support 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 more compilers to distcc ==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.
An earlier project [[Adding Compilers to Distcc|added multi-compiler support to distcc]]Increasingly, Mozilla is moving toward using the Python based buildbot system for automated builds and then [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]]tests. The framework is now in place It would be good to support even more compilersadd a Source class for client.mk checkouts. Add support 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 another compiler, perhaps Java, C#, or something elseintegration with client.mk.
Necessary SkillsReferences: CBen Hearsum (bhearsum), Python, MakefileRob Helmer (rhelmer)
References: Cesar Port this tool to Windows and Tom/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.
== Add Multi-File transfer to distcc ==Resources: mkaply, bsmedberg
The recent work to add [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC == gdb symbol server 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.==
ReferencesMicrosoft's debugger allows the use of a symbol server, which it can use to download debugging symbols for programs and libraries. [http: Cesar //developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_the_Mozilla_symbol_server Mozilla provides this] for nightly and release builds on Windows, and Tomit'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.
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 [httpResources://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]ted, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106400 106400]Stan Shebs, 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].Jim Blandy
Currently, Firefox stores logins in a text file in the userMicrosoft's profile (signons2debugger allows for loading a minidump produced during a crash and then performing post-mortem debugging.txt)GDB supports using core files for the same purpose. The format is simpleIn Firefox 3, but inflexiblewe produce minidump files on all of our supported platforms for use with our Breakpad crash reporting system. Storage Sometimes people may want to debug a crash locally using one of other browser datathese minidumps. On Windows, such as cookies and form historyusing the symbol server, has steadily been moving towards using SQLite-backed databases so moving password storage to they can simply load the same kind of storage would be good. Some work was started minidump in [https://bugzillatheir debugger.mozillaCurrently there is no equivalent on Linux or Mac.org/show_bugExtending gdb to support loading minidumps for post-mortem debugging would be useful.cgi?id=288040 bug 288040]This project may rely on the gdb symbol server project to be truly useful.
== Support for OpenID ==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
[httpResources://openid.net/ OpenID] is an opented, decentralizedStan Shebs, 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?id=356853 bug 356853]. Needs definition as to exactly what should be done and how. Could be initially implemented as an extension.Jim Blandy
Users can enable 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 "master password" in their browserscript that allows you to do binary searches across binaries, which securely encrypts all their stored passwordslooking for the existence of a bug. The current implementation can This could be awkward to improved through the use and has some limitations, see of tools like [httpshttp://bugzillaservices.alphaworks.mozillaibm.orgcom/show_bug.cgi?id=322617 bug 322617coscripter/browse/about co-scripter]. Fixing this would involve having password manager being more involved with Ideally the cryptography operations -- deriving a key from a passphrase with PKCS#5user could look for bugs in automated ways, without having to download and using NSS and PKCS#11 to encrypt/decrypt entriesinstall tons of browser versions.
== Add Offline Support to an open source web app ==Resources: db48x, ted
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 [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].== Extend Try Server to test Thunderbird patches ==
== Thunderbird SMTP Auto"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])
Modify Thunderbird so that it uses the correct SMTP server == Add DTrace probes and scripts 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.Mozilla code base ==
== [[Firefox Session Saver Extension]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.
Write a simple (i.e., nothing more than a simple "save session") extension to leverage the existing [httpResources://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Session_restore_API Session Store API] in order to allow the user to save his/her currently open tabs and restore them. This is similar 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 already, but many of them are more feature rich than need be. See also [http://www.beltzner.ca/mike/archives/2007/05/28/resurrect_your_session.html this blog post].sayrer
Write an extension for Thunderbird that allows the user to start Create a slideshow preview [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Plugins plugin] test suite. There are currently no tests of all images in the current messageany kind, and this code is very brittle and not well understood. The feature This would work like this: when a mail arrives with pictures attached, involve creating a button plugin or set of plugins and some other UI is added html/js to the message drive that allows the slideshow plugin in order to beginpush test coverage. When clickedMaybe look at the JRE tests, the images are shown one after the othercreate some specific plugin cases (e.g., properly scaled swf to fit in the windowload that tests flash specific code). Consider using The newly announced Google Chromium browser [http://developerdev.mozillachromium.org/endevelopers/docshow-tos/Canvas_tutorial Canvasgetting-around-the-chrome-source-code seems to have something like this] with regard to do using the custom graphics, and take a look at npapi for driving tests via plug-in. See also docs on [httpshttp://addonsdev.mozillachromium.org/endevelopers/design-USdocuments/thunderbirdinter-process-communication IPC] and [http:/addon/556 this existing Thunderbird extensiondev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/plugin-architecture plug-in design] for ideasin Chromium.
== [[Cross-Platform Mozilla Build Farm]] ==This will require C programming, as well as light web development (html, js, perhaps swf).
Using the accumulated knowledge of the [[Extending the Buildbot|buildbot]] and [[Distcc With MSVC|distcc]] projects, and using the physical resources of [[Mozilla@Seneca Cluster Administration|Hera]], create a cross-platform distributed build system suitable for testing patches to Mozilla.Resources: jst
ItMozilla has a symbol server which is used by developers to debug issues in release builds that don's common 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 developer web-based self-serve solution for third-parties to want to "watch" all the bugs upload symbols for their binary components in breakpad-formatted .sym file format. Ideally this could happen in an automated way, such that are filed in third-parties could add a certain step to their build system to do it automatically with each release. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org Bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=419879 bug# 419879] 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.
ReferenceResources: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76794 Bug 76794]ted
Programmatically driving the browser <strike>Mozilla [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/tests/mochitest/ajax/ uses] many common JavaScript library test suites to perform human-like tasks repeatedly. The programmer will have add additional coverage to create a framework for driving browser components in it's JavaScript or other scripting language to repeatedly test various pieces of the applicationimplementation. Ideally, the successful completion of this task will see a One test or suite of tests that can is not currently used by Mozilla, but could be invoked by command line to start , is the [http://openlayers.org OpenLayer's] js [http://trac.openlayers.org/browser, run the /trunk/openlayers/tests test suites and then exit and record the results for display or analysissuite]. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399311 bug# 399311].
ReferenceResources: Work with Mozilla's Rob Campbell and Jay Patel from the QA Team. See also http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/09/coscriptersayrer</strike>
We wanted to have <strike>Mozilla uses an extension that would be able to serve users testcases to try and allow them to submit results to embedded version of [http://litmuswww.mozillasqlite.org / SQLite] extensively to [http://litmusdeveloper.mozilla.org/en/storage store data]such as bookmarks, history, etc. We could expand the feature set of To insure that it runs properly within Mozilla, it would be good to add the extension entire sqlite test suite to do a lot of other cool things with Bugzilla and Website Reporter integration. So we need some ideas there. If youMozilla're interesteds tests, you could consult so that testing the work of browser also means testing sqlite. The sqlite test suite is written in TCL and needs to be ported to JavaScript. Some [[Userhttp:djhamp//mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-g|David Hamp-Gonsalves]central/source/storage/test/unit/test_like.js work has already been done], who created the Buggy Bar extensionbut more is required to get full test coverage.
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 tabResources: sdwilsh </window is brought to the front rather than loading the page again.strike>
Related tech and skillsTake : XUL[http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Import_sqlite_test_suite Park, JavaScriptKiWon]
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.TBD
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.TBD
== Make FUEL work with Firefox 2 ==Resources: Fallen
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?string=fuel%2Ftest%2Fbrowser_ FUEL Tests] pass for Firefox 2.
== Benchmark SVG ==
Benchmark SVG performance and look for areas of the code that could be optimized.== HTML page set sanitizer ==
Resources: #mozpadThe Talos performance testing system at Mozilla currently runs on 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 people to duplicate the Talos results or to test changes that have an expected performance impact.
== XULRunner Application Packaging ==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.
Help to develop an [httpResources://www.mozpad.org/doku.php?id=application_build_system_project automated packaging system] for XULRunner applications.ted (but find someone better!)
Resources: plasticmillion== 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, mfinklewhen given a coordinate within the canvas, #mozpadreturn the 3D object at that location.
== Expose DBUS to XPCOM ==Resources: cathy, Andor (http://www.c3dl.org)
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 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.= Potential OOo Projects =
Create an HTTP facility (transport, not rendering) This is a sample project stub. You can use the template for desktop apps that shares cache 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[Sample Project]] exists which which shows some basic structure. A better solution would support more http features, avoid the dbus daemon in order to create a project page for large files, and use Firefox instead one of libcurlthe stubs below. One challenge This is making this work when Firefox is not running. Resources: RH online desktop teamhow you 'sign-up' for a project.
== Radio Button Bookmarks Extension ==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 == Generate an extension to provide [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/f2eeb10d0436af3f radio-button style bookmarks].OOo XREF based on Dehydra ==
== Localized Search Using Dehydra, build OOo and generate an xref in Firefox Search Box ==the same way we are indexing for dxr.
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 considerablyTODO: more info. 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 [http://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery feed autodiscovery].
Create a portable USB installation of Firefox that will work FIXME : the projects proposed on all of Windows, Linux, and Macthe OpenOffice. Currently there are binaries for doing this with Windows/Linux. You'll need org Education Project will be adapted 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 uponcurrent section.
== 'Compact databases' feature for Mozilla calendaring applications (Lightning, Sunbird) ==Other links:
Add the possibility to compact the database for local storage calendars based on SQLite using the VACUUM command[http://wiki.services. At the moment the local database for events and tasks will not get smaller even if you delete your tasks and eventsopenoffice. This has serious performance implications for people, who work a lot with their calendarorg/wiki/Education_Project OpenOffice.org Education Project on the Wiki]
See also [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352976 Bug 352976]
Resources[[User: ctalbertEricb|Ericb]] 21:05, daniel in #calendar on irc.mozilla.org26 September 2008 (UTC)
= 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]] ==
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== Ideas Pool == Lots of good ideas are listed in [[Mozilla Source :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 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 Test Suite for Condor == 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 Symbol Serverrequires 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. Resource: [[:fedora:Nightlife|Nightlife wiki page]] , Matthew Farrellee --- Below: Commented out by Chris Tyler 2008-08-31 -- I think we'll get all the students doing this. == Review Packages == There is a lot of 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 packaging in general. The general process is described in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/HowToGetSponsored and in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines. === Review Requests === * 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--> = Potential Mozilla Projects =
== FullCreate a cross-Text History Search extension 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 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.
== Improve Mozilla <strike>XULRunner Application and Platform Documentation Packaging == Help to develop an [http://www.mozpad.org/doku.php?id=application_build_system_project automated packaging system] for XULRunner applications.
See also: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280419 bug 280419] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id= Tbeachball 369108 bug 369108], and code [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla- Quantifying Mozilla's Responsiveness == central/source/uriloader/exthandler/nsExternalHelperAppService.cpp#2077 here].
== Port distcc the Firefox Release Repackager to MSYS other platforms ==
The recent work to add [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]] to distcc works using the cygwin build environment. However, since this project was completed, Mozilla has switched to MSYS (see the [http://developerbenjamin.mozillasmedbergs.orgus/enrelease-repackager/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites Mozilla Win32 build docs)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. Port distcc so that it Currently the repackager only works with the new MSYS environmenton Mac.
References:# https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id== Add password managers for various platforms ==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
== Convert password storage to a SQLite database gdb support for minidumps for post-mortem debugging ==
== Refactor master password out of NSS RegressionTry ==
== Thunderbird Picture Preview Plugin Code Test Suite ==
== [[Bugzilla componentCreate self-watching]] serve symbol upload system ==
== Automated Testing <strike>Add OpenLayers test suite to Mozilla </strike>==
== Litmus Extension <strike>Import sqlite test suite</strike> ==
References: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id== [["Avoid loading the same page twice" Extension391756 bug 391756]] =, http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=368
== Make chromebug work in Thunderbird ==
TBD
== Firebug "linting" for portability problems Help gristmill move forward in Thunderbird ==
== Add-Help Calendar integration on update helper tools for developers Trunk ==
== Embeddable HTTP Engine [[Sample Project]] ==
Resources: mykhumph, taras
== Universal Firefox on a USB Key Existing Subjects proposed by OpenOffice.org Education Project ==
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]'''
