Google Summer of Code 2008 Ideas

Rules

• Be creative
• Be specific: what do you want to be implemented
• If you are willing to mentors those ideas, add you name and email to the idea.

Ideas

Title	Project	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Possible mentor(s)	Comments
Support for user-defined refactorings in JDT	JDT	The idea is to produce a pattern language, rules engine, and user interface to allow the Java developer to perform queries n and make safe modifications of their code code. It's a superset of the current refactoring because ideally current refactorings could be expressed this new system, forming a nice set of initial examples. he users could then adapt those rules to their own purposes or come up with completely new ones. See bug 144642 for more informations.	Ed Burnette	Martin Aeschlimann(?)	<Insert comments here>
Building Eclipse artifacts with Buildr	BPMN	Buildr is a powerful building tool. This project would consist into providing custom tasks to build OSGi artifacts, Eclipse update sites and features, with all the complexity implied (a test framework, pack200, etc). Please note that this project would be coded in Ruby.	Antoine Toulme	Antoine Toulme, Hugues Malphettes
Improve the messages bundle editor	Babel	index the existing properties in each language and build dictionaries dynamically.	Antoine Toulme	Antoine Toulme, Hugues Malphettes
Build images of BPMN diagrams automatically	BPMN	Sometimes you want to expose your BPMN diagram through an image that you export from it. It becomes quickly painful to regenerate the image by hand constantly, when you make minor revisions to a diagram. The idea would consist of adding a builder to BPMN projects that would (re)create automatically an image from the BPMN diagram when it is saved.	Antoine Toulme	Antoine Toulme, Hugues Malphettes
Build images of BPMN diagrams automatically	BPMN	Sometimes you want to expose your BPMN diagram through an image that you export from it. It becomes quickly painful to regenerate the image by hand constantly, when you make minor revisions to a diagram. The idea would consist of adding a builder to BPMN projects that would (re)create automatically an image from the BPMN diagram when it is saved.	Antoine Toulme	Antoine Toulme, Hugues Malphettes
Create a "copy style" tool	GMF, BPMN	When you edit big GMF-based diagrams, you sometimes want to be able to apply the style of one shape to others. The project would consist into coding a tool that would copy the style of a given shape and paste it over other shapes.	Antoine Toulme	Antoine Toulme, Hugues Malphettes
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More ideas can be found at Eclipse-Wiki, Mylar Contribution Ideas page and Google Summer of Code 2007 ideas.

Interested Students

Name, University, Idea