Google Summer of Code 2010 Ideas

Rules

• Be creative
• Be specific: what do you want to be implemented
• If you are willing to mentors those ideas, add your name and email to the idea.
• It is ok to have a project idea without parent project
• If you're an interested student, add your name and email next to the idea. It is ok to have several students interested by one idea.
• Aspiring students and mentors need to register and submit their proposals or request on the Soc app

Ideas

Title	Project	Abstract - links to details/bugs/etc	Reporter	Possible mentor(s)	Comments	Potential student(s)
Provider for Google Buzz	ECF	Google Buzz is the latest social network / microblogging mechanism introduced by Google. Integrating Google buzz to eclipse communication framework will extend ECF quite vastly, since buzz itself can be linked to many information sources such as twitter, feeds, Google status messages, youtube, picasa etc. Therefore creating a provider for Google buzz will help eclipse users connect to vast number of sources through a single provider. In addition to that, it would enhance the accessibility of Google Buzz, since users will not have to constantly go to their gmail page and check for updates.	N.J. Samarasekera from University of Moratuwa – Moratuwa, Sri Lanka	Scott Lewis, Alex Blewitt	There is an ECF enhancement request to create/add a Google Buzz provider	N.J. Samarasekera from University of Moratuwa – Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
OSGi Dependency Analysis and Source Highlighting	PDE	When developing OSGi applications, understanding your dependencies is crucial. The goal of this project would be to create tooling to aid OSGi developers in understanding what type of dependencies are being added. One extension to PDE would allow people to see what each line of code would bring in terms of dependencies. This could be accomplished by annotating editors with dependency information based on imports and each line of code. These dependencies could also be colored based on strength of dependency. Through the beauty of transitive dependencies, developers aren't always aware what depending on something can also bring in.	Chris Aniszczyk	Chris Aniszczyk		Mateusz Pastewski from Gdańsk University of Technology (Poland)/Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
Gerrit Mylyn Connector	Mylyn	Gerrit is a terrific code review tool for Git. At Eclipse, the EGit/JGit projects make exclusive use of Gerrit when it comes to reviewing patches. It would be great if there was Mylyn integration for Gerrit so we don't have to leave the comfort of Eclipse to do the actual reviews. This project would entail creating a Mylyn Connector and potentially creating some APIs on Gerrit's end to make the connector creation possible.	Chris Aniszczyk	Chris Aniszczyk
ProtocolBuffer EMF Serialization	EMF	ProtocolBuffer is binary serialization API which is smaller and faster than XML. It would be interesting to be able to serialize EMF models with it.See http://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/protocolbuffers/	Mariot Chauvin	To be defined		To be defined
CuteGEF	GEF	GEF is a great platform to build graphical modelers, but is it ready for next gen graphical modelers ? Many limits adopters are meeting are linked to Draw2D/SWT in some way and graphical capabilities and performances are really different depending on the host platform. This project is about porting GEF to the QT platform to leverage the high level, hardware accelerated and multi-platform graphical API with minimum impact on the client code, just like GEF3D. Among other benefits users of this port could expect better performances, better textual capabilities, great SVG support and special effects.	Cedric Brun	Cedric Brun Mariot Chauvin
GMF	GMF	This idea is about integrating GMF runtime with the Mylyn context-sensitive UI, the result could be graphical diagrams with figures having different opacity depending on their relevancy with the current task.	Cedric Brun	Cedric Brun Mariot Chauvin
EMF Shell	EMFT	EMF Shell, this idea is about providing a set of basic commands working on models conforming to the UNIX philosophy : small, focused textually composable commands to process model elements just like UNIX commands are processing files. Each command could provide streams of EObject as input, output or error channels. A few examples : wc to count model elements, sed to substitute values in the model, grep to filter model elements...	Cedric Brun	Cedric Brun
Modeling Example	Amalgamation	This idea is about providing an example of application of the modeling project tooling through a whole chain, from Ecore domain model, to code generator and going through model to model transformations and textual DSL. Basically taking the "Modeling Project as a DSL Toolkit" book examples, updating those and integrating them in the Modeling discovery UI available in the package.	Cedric Brun	Cedric Brun
Index Based Model Compare Match Engine	Compare	First phase for model comparison is model elements matching. This process might be costly both in computation and memory, this project would be implementing a new match engine for EMF Compare leveraging indexes for keep similarity information and maintain them depending on model events. This would be the first step for a perfect integration of compare in live editors and could lead to better scalability with huge models.	Cedric Brun	Cedric Brun
Model Compare Reusable UI	Compare	Many projects or adopters expressed their wish to reuse the emf compare UI (two versions of a model, weaved with colored link and a top level navigation model showing the diffs). This project is about providing a JFace-like API for the EMF Compare UI to be reusable in other contexts. The goal of this project would be to reuse the UI in an RCP application not having workspace or team support.	Cedric Brun	Cedric Brun
ChangeModel / DiffModel interoperability	Compare	EMF Compare represents differences between models with a DiffModel, EMF contains a ChangeModel to collect notifications, this idea would be to provide changemodel to diffmodel transformation back and forth. With this feature one could reuse EMF Compare to show the changes which are going to happen during a command application and allow the user to pick the change he wants.	Cedric Brun	Cedric Brun

Old ideas can be found at Google Summer of Code 2007 ideas, Google Summer of Code 2008 ideas and Google Summer of Code 2009 ideas .