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>
Implement a search mechanism for BPMN diagrams	BPMN	Research indexing of domain specific models persisted in an XML format. Apply this research to indexing and searching BPMN diagrams.	Antoine Toulme	Antoine Toulme, Hugues Malphettes
Improve the usability of the BPMN editor	BPMN	Gather feedback from users of the modeler. Select enhancements to support and develop them.	Antoine Toulme	Antoine Toulme, Hugues Malphettes
Support for StyledText	RAP	One of the most asked features of RAP is the StyledText widget. Not only to show funny colored texts in your application but it's one of the most complex widgets to implement. But having at least some basic API working enabled RAP to port other parts of RCP to the web based on the new StyledText widget. More information about StyledText can be found here.	Benjamin Muskalla	Frank Appel, Rüdiger Herrmann
Theme Editor	RAP	Theming allows RAP application developers to give their applications a custom style. Currently, a theme must be defined as a .properties file. As the theming capabilities improve, these files are getting more and more complex. A theme editor should provide an easy-to-use user interface for defining themes. It could be shipped as part of the RAP tooling. For more information on the RAP theming, see the online help.	Ralf Sternberg	Ralf Sternberg	<Insert comments here>
AIM Provider	ECF	ECF allows messaging protocols to be plugged in as providers. AIM isn't currently supported. The student can choose to implement the AIM (OSCAR) protocol themselves, or wrap an existing Java library like JOscar.	Chris Aniszczyk, Remy Suen	Chris Aniszczyk, Remy Suen	<Insert comments here>
DITA or DocBook Help Content Producer	User Assistance	Eclipse User Assistance allows for help content to be dynamically produced. Traditionally, all Eclipse content came in the form of hand-written HTML files. This is so 90's, we should have help content producers to produce help content from DITA or DocBook files.	Chris Aniszczyk, Chris Goldthorpe(?)	Chris Aniszczyk, Chris Goldthorpe	<Insert comments here>
GraphicsZilla	Phoenix	Eclipse uses Bugzilla in many interesting ways. It uses it in the normal fashion for bug tracking. It also uses a modified version for IP tracking (IPZilla). This proposal is to create a GraphicsZilla to help streamline icon and graphics creation in Eclipse. This would allow not only programmers to contribute their talents to Eclipse. This would also make the process of where icons come from more transparent. See this blog post and bug for more info. Note, this would also provide a viewable repository of all the graphics used in Eclipse... which is currently lacking now.	Chris Aniszczyk	Chris Aniszczyk	<Insert comments here>
<Insert project title here>	<Insert parent umbrella project here>	<Insert description here>	<Insert your name here>	<Insert prospective mentor names here>	<Insert comments here>

More ideas can be found at Eclipse-Wiki, Mylar Contribution Ideas page and Google Summer of Code 2007 ideas.

Interested Students

Name, University, Idea