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= Introduction =  This is a list of potential projects that need people. '''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. '''<big>Working DraftOpen Source Community Members:''' We welcome your recommendations for potential projects. Please do not pick from create an account on this Wiki and create a description for your proposed project below. Please list until completedyour 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]] == 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. 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/big>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 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. 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.
= Introduction == Review Requests ===
This is a list of potential projects that need people* Unassigned review requests - http://fedoraproject. If you'd like to work on one of these, move the chosen project to the [[Project Page]] and create a page for your work based on the [[Sample Project]] templateorg/PackageReviewStatus/NEW.html* In progress review requests - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/InProgressReviewRequests* Approved review requests - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/ApprovedReviewRequests-->
= Potential Mozilla Projects =
== [[Sample Project]] ==
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]] Improve Localization build system == 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. Adding a few make steps to wrap this process would help everyone.This is a very easy project to tackle but very benefitial if the time and love is given to it.
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.Reference: armenzg
== Port canvas3d Create a cross-repo pushlog to non-Windows platforms 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.
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 OpenGL, or a willingness to learn it, is required.Reference: armenzg - Bug 498641
Resources: Cathy, Vlad.== Thunderbird SMTP Auto-Sensing ==
== Add OpenID support 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 Bugzilla ==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.
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.References: #maildev
References: see [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294608 bug 294608]
== Full-Text History Search extension ==
Firefox3 probably won't ship with support for full-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.== <strike>XULRunner Application Packaging ==
References: Help to develop an [http://skrulwww.mozpad.com/blog/projects/xpcluceneorg/doku.php?id=application_build_system_project automated packaging system] for XULRunner applications.
== Mozilla Tree Visualization ==Resources: plasticmillion, mfinkle, #mozpad, #prism</strike>
Use the canvas element in order to create a generic front-end == 'Compact databases' feature 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 axiscalendaring applications (Lightning, and changes over time to be shown.Sunbird) ==
== Mozilla Data Visualization Back-ends ==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.
Create a data-source for the Mozilla Tree Visualization project. This means data mining cvs.mozilla.org, See also [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org, bonsai.mozilla.org and preparing the data for use in a heatmap visualization/show_bug.cgi?id=352976 Bug 352976]
== Plugin-watcher ==Resources: ctalbert, daniel in #calendar on irc.mozilla.org
Firefox sometimes gets a bad reputation == <strike>[[Spellcheck Extension 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).Arbitrary Web Pages]]</strike> ==
== Improve <strike>Write an extension to leverage the existing spellcheck code in Mozilla Application and Platform Documentation ==add the ability to highlight spelling mistakes for a given web page (i.e., vs. a textbox).</strike>
Not enough is understood about the various communities and companies who develop with Mozilla, as opposed == <strike>Modify Firefox to those who work on the Mozilla code itself. A proper survey needs handle files downloaded to be conducted in order to find out which APIs are being used and how, what is hard, what could be improved, 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 projectsTemp more appropriately </companies in orbit around Mozilla and do interviews with their developers. You will then document this information.strike>==
* References: http://www<strike>Often files downloaded by the browser are put in a temporary folder that is emptied on close.mozpad.org/doku.php?id=actionitem:documentation_proposal* See also: http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/06/xulrunner-wishlist/ Users (and http://wwwespecially novice users) should be protected from inadvertent data loss as a result of important files being saved to this temp folder.songbirdnest This project will add fixes to the browser so that users are protected.com/node/1826* Contacts Ideas include: plasticmillion
== Localize Mozilla ==* 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
Join Other ideas are possible, and a localization team (see http://developer.mozillacombination of these might be necessary.org/en/docs/Localization) and help localize Mozilla into a language other than English, for example Ultimately, [http://blogthis fix should target regular users without much knowledge of the filesystem.mozilla.com/ligong/2007</07/11/firefox-cn-localization-liaison-group-started/ Chinese].strike>
== Testing of Canadian Banking and Financial Sites in Mozilla ==Resources: ted, mfinkle
This project will focus on improving the user experience at banking See also: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280419 bug 280419] and other financial sites for Canadian Mozilla users[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug. This includes determining which sites are relevantcgi?id=369108 bug 369108], insuring proper behavior for Firefox 3 on these sites, etcand code [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/uriloader/exthandler/nsExternalHelperAppService.cpp#2077 here].
References: http://quality.mozilla.org/node/293== Standalone Test Harnesses ==
== My Favicons extension 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.
Write an extension to allow the user to pick his* References: http:/her own favicons for sites, based on a URL regexp/xoatlicue. 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 diskblogspot. Ideally, it should also be possible to export the regexp com/2008/01/standalone-> icon mapping as a regexp test-> data URI mapping that can be imported into another profileproduct.html* Possible Resources: Ben Hearsum
References: http://blog.vlad1.com/archives/2007/08/10/151/== Add source checkout to buildbot ==
== Tbeachball - Quantifying MozillaUnlike many open source projects, it's Responsiveness == 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.
This project will add instrumentation to Increasingly, Mozilla in order to determine how much time is spent away from moving toward using the main event loop, Python based buildbot system for automated builds and therefore from the user's mouse/keyboard inputtests. When the user does something, how long does it take It would be good to add a Source class for Mozilla to act on that stimulus? client.mk checkouts. One thing This would mean creating a a general Source class that sometimes interferes with interface responsiveness is spending too long away from understands the main event loopidea of checking out a file, 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 which could also then be expanded in order used to include drive the triggering of log points checkout and specific dialog openings, etcallow for integration with client. with a view to understanding what the long-running events actually aremk.
References: http://shaver.off.net/diary/2007/08/25/tbeachball/ and http://shaver.off.net/misc/latency-tracing-patch.txtBen Hearsum (bhearsum), Rob Helmer (rhelmer)
== Mozilla Developer Virtual Appliance Port the Firefox Release Repackager to other platforms ==
Create The [http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/release-repackager/ Firefox Release Repackager] allows one to take a Linux-based virtual machine with all released version of the necessary buildbrowser, developmentdeconstruct it in order to add some custom extension, and testing tools necessary for working on Mozillathen repackage it. This virtual appliance would be targeted allows organizations to ship slightly modified versions of stock releases, useful for their users. at developers not familiar with Currently the Mozilla toolchain and wanted to get startedrepackager only works on Mac.
== Add support 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 compilers to distcc ==flexible.
An earlier project [[Adding Compilers to Distcc|added multi-compiler support to distcc]]Resources: mkaply, and then [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]]. The framework is now in place to support even more compilers. Add support for another compiler, perhaps Java, C#, or something else.bsmedberg
Necessary Skills: C, Python, Makefile== gdb symbol server support ==
== Port distcc Microsoft's debugger allows the use of a symbol server, which it can use to MSYS ==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.
The recent work to add [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]] to distcc works using the cygwin build environmentReferences:# https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412722#c5# http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/objcopy1. However, since this project was completed, Mozilla has switched to MSYS html (see the [--add-gnu-debuglink and --only-keep-debug)# http://developerwww.mozillatotalviewtech.orgcom/enDocumentation/docsTips/Windows_Build_Prerequisites Mozilla Win32 build docs). Port distcc so that it works with the new MSYS environmentgnu_debuglink.html
ReferencesResources: Cesar and Tomted, Stan Shebs, Jim Blandy
== Add Multigdb support for minidumps for post-File transfer to distcc mortem debugging ==
The recent work to add [[Distcc With MSVC|MSVC support]] to distcc only Microsoft's debugger allows for loading a minidump produced during a single file to be sent back from build slaves. This means that extra crash and then performing post-mortem debugging info (e.gGDB supports using core files for the same purpose.In Firefox 3, .pdb we produce minidump files) cannot be sent on all of our supported platforms for use with binariesour Breakpad crash reporting system. Sometimes people may want to debug a crash locally using one of these minidumps. Modify distcc so that it 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 debug Mozilla buildsloading minidumps for post-mortem debugging would be useful. This project may rely on the gdb symbol server project to be truly useful.
References: Cesar and Tom# 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
== Add password managers for various platforms ==Resources: ted, Stan Shebs, Jim Blandy
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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?idRegressionTry ==371000 371000].
== Convert password storage 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 SQLite database ==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.
CurrentlyResources: db48x, 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288040 bug 288040].ted
== Support for OpenID Extend Try Server to test Thunderbird patches ==
[http://openid.net/ OpenID] is an open"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, decentralizedusing those patches, free framework then serves those builds for user-centric digital identitytesting. This is really helpful to figure out if proposed patches solve specific problems... It's built on existing web technologies so The only problem is that there’s a little bit of patching needed to the try server code itself to make it can able to work without special support with other targets besides Firefox, as described in the browser. However, tighter browser integration could allow for increased security and easier management. See bug 431375" ([httpshttp://bugzillaascher.mozilla.orgca/blog/2008/05/02/thunderbird-team-needs-help-from-pythonperl-build-assist/show_bug.cgi?id=356853 bug 356853Ascher]. Needs definition as to exactly what should be done and how. Could be initially implemented as an extension.)
== Refactor master password out of NSS Add DTrace probes and scripts for Mozilla code base ==
Users can enable a "master password" in their browser, which securely encrypts all their stored passwords. The current implementation can be awkward to use and has some limitations, see [httpshttp://bugzillaen.mozillawikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322617 bug 322617wiki/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. Fixing this would involve having password manager being more involved with One of the cryptography operations -- deriving a key from a passphrase advantages of DTrace is that it allows you to turn on probing when you need it, but not incur an execution penalty with PKCS#5regard 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, and using NSS and PKCS#11 if you wanted to encryptknow when a particular function is entered/decrypt entriesexited, 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.
== Add Offline Support to an open source web app ==Resources: sayrer
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].== 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 [http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/inter-process-communication IPC] and [http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/plugin-architecture plug-in design] in Chromium. This will require C programming, as well as light web development (html, js, perhaps swf). Resources: jst == Create self-serve symbol upload system == Thunderbird SMTP Auto 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-Sensing parties could add a step to their build system to do it automatically with each release. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419879 bug# 419879]. Resources: ted == <strike>Add OpenLayers test suite to Mozilla </strike>== <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=399311 bug# 399311]. Resources: sayrer</strike> == <strike>Import sqlite test suite</strike> ==
Modify Thunderbird so that it <strike>Mozilla uses the correct SMTP server for your current network and IPan embedded version of [http://www.sqlite.org/ SQLite] extensively to [http://developer.mozilla. In other wordsorg/en/storage store data] such as bookmarks, if you are at homehistory, use your home ISP's SMTPetc. To insure that it runs properly within Mozilla, but if you use a school wireless network, switch it would be good to add the schoolentire sqlite test suite to Mozilla's SMTPtests, so that testing the browser also means testing sqlite. These various SMTP configurations should be manually controlled by the user, that The sqlite test suite is, you don't have written in TCL and needs to try and figure out which SMTP be ported to useJavaScript. RatherSome [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/storage/test/unit/test_like.js work has already been done], it should be configurable in an options dialogbut more is required to get full test coverage.
References: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391756 bug 391756], http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p= Firefox Session Saver Extension ==368
Write a simple (i.e., nothing more than a simple "save session") extension to leverage the existing [httpResources:sdwilsh <//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].strike>
== Thunderbird Picture Preview ==Take : [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Import_sqlite_test_suite Park,KiWon]
Write an extension for Thunderbird that allows the user to start a slideshow preview of all images in the current message. The feature would == Make chromebug 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. ==
== [[Cross-Platform Mozilla Build Farm]] ==TBD
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.== Help gristmill move forward in Thunderbird ==
== [[Bugzilla component-watching]] ==TBD
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 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.== Help Calendar integration on Trunk ==
Reference: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76794 Bug 76794]TBD
== Automated Testing ==Resources: Fallen
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 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.
Reference: Work with Mozilla's Rob Campbell and Jay Patel from the QA Team. See also http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/09/coscripter/
== Litmus Extension HTML page set sanitizer ==
We wanted to have an extension that would be able to serve users testcases to try and allow them to submit results to [http://litmus.mozilla.org http://litmus.mozilla.org]. We could expand the feature The Talos performance testing system at Mozilla currently runs on a large set of web pages pulled from the extension to do a lot of other cool things with Bugzilla and Website Reporter integrationAlexa Top 500. So we need some ideas there. If youThese pages can't be redistributed, since they're interestedmirrors of copyrighted web pages. In addition, you could consult the work many of [[User:djhamp-g|David Hamp-Gonsalves]], who created them contain adult content. This makes it difficult for people to duplicate the Buggy Bar extensionTalos results or to test changes that have an expected performance impact.
== [[A useful solution to this problem would be a tool that takes a mirrored copy of a website and "Avoid loading sanitizes" it, by changing the same page twicetext 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" Extension]] ==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.
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 tab/window is brought to the front rather than loading the page again.Resources: ted (but find someone better!)
Related tech == 3D object picking ==Canvas 3D JS Library is a library for the creation and skills: XULmanipulation 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, JavaScriptwhen given a coordinate within the canvas, return the 3D object at that location.
== Tinderbox front page improvements ==Resources: cathy, Andor (http://www.c3dl.org)
[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.Potential OOo Projects =
* == [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 dataSample Project]. (Requires a [http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ recent Firefox 3 build])==
== Buildbot 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. NOTE: if someone has already created the project page, speak to this person and EC2 ==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.
[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 == Generate an EC2 module, and could spawn Virtual Machines OOo XREF based 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].Dehydra ==
References: [http://jimmygUsing Dehydra, build OOo and generate an xref in the same way we are indexing for dxr.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 ==TODO: more info....
Lots of web developers use Firebug and Firefox for building their applicationsResources: humph, 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.taras
== Add-on update helper tools for developers Existing Subjects proposed by OpenOffice.org Education Project ==
As Firefox 3 gets ramped up, there are nearly 3000 add-ons that need to get updated to some degreeFIXME : the projects proposed on the OpenOffice. Write tools (web or XULRunner) to look in add-ons and find things that developers org Education Project will need to update. You'll want be adapted to work with the Mozilla documentation and evangelism teams to figure out what you're looking for and what to recommend to userscurrent section.
== Make FUEL work with Firefox 2 ==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]'''
Mozilla's [httpOther links://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 ==[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project OpenOffice.org Education Project on the Wiki]
Benchmark SVG performance and look for areas of the code that could be optimized.
Resources[[User: #mozpadEricb|Ericb]] 21:05, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
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