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* More info: [mailto:cdt-dev@eclipse.org CDT Developer Mailing List]
 
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* Eclipse Project: [http://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT '''CDT WIKI'''] [http://www.eclipse.org/cdt '''CDT Main Web Site''']
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==Mylyn==
 
==Mylyn==

Revision as of 04:20, 16 March 2011

Rules

  • Be creative
  • Be specific: what do you want to be implemented
  • If you are willing to mentor those ideas, add your name and email to the idea.
  • GSoC project ideas should align with an existing Eclipse project
  • If you're an interested student, add your name and email next to the idea. It is ok to have several students interested in one idea.
  • Aspiring students and mentors need to register and submit their proposals on the SoC app

Mentors info

If you were a mentor last year then you are automatically in the list this year (the GSoC site may require that you re-register, but we think of you as "in").

Note that we only accept as mentors people who are known to us. This includes Eclipse committers. If you would like to be a mentor, please either introduce yourself to the group using the soc-dev mailing list, or send a note to EMO.

Ideas submission

Idea proposal should contain the following information:

  • project title, like "WTP - Improve auto-complete in xml editor"
  • description with links to bug reports, project wiki pages, etc
  • Reporter: who submitted idea (optional e-mail)
  • Possible Mentors: who would like to mentor the students
  • More info: other links or e-mail
  • Eclipse Project: link to main eclipse project that improvement is targeting
  • Potential students: who is interested (with optional e-mail). This one completely informal, to actually be interested you need to submit the proposal. Contact the idea owner or possible mentor to get some details before submitting it.

Ideas

These are some ideas. Students feel free to base your GSoC proposals on these ideas (note that you are more likely to find a mentor for an idea that has been proposed by a mentor). Some of these ideas can be factored into multiple projects; a GSoC project proposal can work on parts of these ideas (i.e. you don't necessarily have to do it all).

There are other sources of ideas. There are numerous bugs in the Eclipse Bugzilla issue tracking system marked as "helpwanted" that may give you ideas.

EGit / JGit - git-blame support

It's about adding support for "git blame" in JGit (git library in Java) and EGit (Eclipse integration and UI). There is an early proposed draft for the jgit part by Benjamin Muskalla which is based on prior work from Manuel Woelker but there wasn't much progress on that in the last months.

If you are interested to have a closer look refer to the EGit Contributor Guide to find out how to setup your environment for contributing and maybe try to fix some low hanging fruit from our bug list to get a feeling what these projects are all about.

  • Reporter: Chris Aniszczyk
  • Possible Mentors: Chris Aniszczyk, Matthias Sohn
  • More info: EGit mailing list
  • Eclipse Project: EGit
  • Potential students: ???

Acceleo - Export profiling data to gprof

Acceleo has a nice profiling model, so it could be nice to be able to export this data to gprof files so that the user can leverage other more sophisticated tools to analyse the trace. See bug 293304. If you want to know more about the profiling in Acceleo see the user guide.

If you are interested to have a closer look refer to our Contributor Guide to find out how to setup your environment for contributing.

  • Reporter: Mariot Chauvin
  • Possible Mentors: Mariot Chauvin, Laurent Goubet, Cédric Brun
  • More info: M2T mailing list
  • Eclipse Project: Acceleo
  • Potential students: ?

EEF - Enhance the end user experience

EEF provides a three steps process to generate eye-candy user interface for your models. This process could be simplified by doing automatically several steps instead of asking the user to do it. See bug 338939 and bug 338942 for instance.


If you are interested to have a closer look refer to our Developer Guide to find out how to setup your environment for contributing.

  • Reporter: Mariot Chauvin
  • Possible Mentors: Mariot Chauvin, Goulwen Lefur
  • More info: EMFT mailing list
  • Eclipse Project: EEF
  • Potential students: ?

CDT - Build UI Improvements

Currently the CDT build UI is hidden away in Project Properties. We'd like to add nodes in the Project Explorer under each project to list the build configurations. Actions would be added to open up a build configuration editor to change the settings. Actions would be added for invoking build and clean, and for setting the default build and indexer configuration.

CDT - CMake and/or Qt qmake Builder Integration

CDT has it's own managed build system, but we are seeing more and more use of external managed builders such as CMake and Qt's qmake. We need to make sure the infrastructure is in place to allow for integration of these builders into the CDT builds. Then we need to implement them. CMake is a priority because there already exists a qmake builder. But then the qmake builder isn't very standard and could be redone.

Mylyn

Mylyn maintains a list of ideas on this the Contribution Ideas wiki page. If you have your own idea or if you interested in one of the suggested ideas please feel free to contact mylyn-dev@eclipse.org or join one of the weekly meetings.

  • Reporter: Steffen Pingel
  • Possible Mentors: Benjamin Muskalla, Steffen Pingel
  • Eclipse Project: Mylyn
  • Potential students: ?

TPTP tools - Agent Controller on MAC OS

TPTP tools aleady run on a wide range of Linux and Unix flavors, but it doesn't work well on Mac OS. Deadly is that Mac OS is used widely in programmers. This problem first been proposed in 2004, nearly 6 years ago, more than 100 persons vote for this tool, See bug 68111 to learn more. But to now, we have only finished partially ported for org.eclipse.tptp.platform.agentcontroller , i want to continue and speed up the development process about this topic, improve org.eclipse.tptp.platform.agentcontroller, finish org.eclipse.hyades.probekit,org.eclipse.tptp.platform.jvmti.runtime and org.apache.harmony_vmcore_verifier support on Mac OS.

Sequoyah - Add multi-language support to Eclipse plugin projects using the Sequoyah Localization Editor

The Sequoyah project is focused on Mobile application development tools. One of the components of Sequoyah is the Localization Files Editor (LFE), which is a visual editor for handling parallel resources for multi-language projects. The LFE has a reference implementation for Android, although it was written in a way so that the model is abstracted from the underlying implementation.

We are proposing a feature for the Sequoyah Localization Framework, which will extend support to Eclipse plugin projects. In order to do that, the framework must be changed to handle PDE projects, which contain strings files in the Java .properties format. The result will be a new set of editors that will allow Eclipse projects to localize themselves more easily.

The Eclipse Babel project has expressed interest in participating in this work.

  • Reporter: Marcel Gorri
  • Possible mentors: Marcel Gorri, Werner Keil (Babel)
  • More info: Sequoyah mailing list
  • Eclipse Project: Sequoyah
  • Potential students: TBD

Eclipse Communication Framework

ECF is a framework for building distributed servers, applications, and tools. It provides a modular implementation of the OSGi 4.2 Remote Services standard, along with support for REST-based and SOAP-based remote services, and asynchronous messaging for remote services.

Eclipse IDE for Education

The Eclipse IDE for Education is a version of Eclipse streamlined specifically for use by university and college students. The environment provides support for programming languages that are commonly used in university courses, including Java, Scheme, and Prolog (though only Java is supported for the time being).

Eclipse OCL - Add an extensible Java Code Generation Framework

The OMG's OCL specification provides a core expression language for an increasing range of modeling languages. The Eclipse MDT/OCL project provides an implementation for which evaluation occurs through interpreted evaluation of the OCL Abstract Syntax Tree. With the advent of Validation, Setting and Invocation delegates in Ecore, it is very desirable to support direct synthesis of Java code avoiding the need or incentive for manual recoding. More generally direct synthesis of C and VHDL implementations will expand the project utility.

ECF: Salvo, the Eclipse NNTP/Newsreader Project

A subproject of ECF aims to provide a communications layer to NNTP servers (network news or forums) as well as a slick newsreader that is operated from within the Eclipse IDE.

Downloads and more Information Google on Salvo

The newsreader and the underlying protocol implementation is currently release 0.7.0 with 0.8.0 pending. The project has all the basic stuff: A local storage, subscribe to server, subscribe to newsgroups, read and post of articles.

There are several fields where students can work on on this project:

UI Integration in the workbench

  • We want a have a view that provides the user with a digest of all the articles that are of interest to him or her. This view contains all the recent articles, replies to threads that the user participates in and following of interesting threads. Other projects can create an exit point or tell a service that this projects is connected to this and that newsgroup. Questions can be asked right from the workbench. Committers and other interested parties get notified when a topic arrives in his newsgroup.
  • The UI currently does not view attachements. Mime support has already been built in.

Protocol

The protocol implementation can be extended to provide support for writing and reading of binaries. With this functionality, other protocols could be implemented, most notably the nzb protocol. Newsgroup leeching is a very popular way of file transfer and many uses other then piracy can be envisioned.

Other uses

Newsgroups contain a lot of information that is not easy accessible. Use the protocol implementation together with a tool like Apache Lucene to index a news server. The Eclipse UI could then be used as a search client for newsgroups.

  • Reporter: Wim Jongman
  • Possible mentors: Wim Jongman
  • Eclipse Project: ECF
  • Potential students: YOU!

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