Development:Good Bugs and Projects

Camino needs a list of “good first bugs” and bugs/areas of improvement that are suitable for a focused, longer-term project, e.g., Google's Summer of Code, so that interested new contributors without any pet peeves can be pointed towards a concrete list.

For the latter set, we should also include Gecko-Mac platform bugs.

References: Sam's Roadmap, Camino Vote List (bugs with 5 or more votes), bugs marked helpwanted in Camino or relevant Core components

Bugs listed, especially in the “Good First Bugs” section, need to be audited by acutal devs for suitability ;-)

Good First Bugs

N.B. This list is largely out-of-date, but the query below it is still good.

• Drag-and-Drop Reorderable Tabs; Bug 160720 and Bug 318260 (delliott is doing this as part of the 2006 SoC)

  Listed on MozillaWiki Summer of Code page

• Software update notification (non-AUS); bug 185436
• Private Browsing bug 251677
• optional "Go" button for toolbar bug 181806 - WONTFIX?
• Show/Hide Bookmarks toolbar button does not indicate state; Bug 235863
• Ability to save session state; Bug 152147
• Maximum width of location bar/search field is fixed at 2560 pixels; Bug 336947 - FIXED
• Disable View Source menu command and toolbar button when viewing source; Bug 159337
• Loading bookmarks with keywords doesn't allow popups (e.g., BugMeNot); Bug 319879
• Tab context menu for tab with Bookmarks/History displayed includes "Reload Tab"; Bug 319922
• Bookmarks Bar buttons should darken text on mousesdown; Bug 300304
• Bookmark keywords with spaces gives "Invalid URL" error if entered in address bar (do input validation on keyword entry); Bug 303628
• keyword.enabled doesn't work in Camino (1.8branch and trunk); Bug 336017 - FIXED

  
  good first bug query (the query and the above list do not match yet)

Camino and Gecko-Mac Projects

Some of these projects were listed on the MozillaWiki 2006 Summer of Code page; see this blog entry.

• Support a11y in the content area (bridge Apple's Carbon accessibility APIs to the Mozilla accessibility APIs); bug 157209

  a little birdie tells us this should be happening RSN it's public now; hwaara is working on this :)

• Audit and fix any missing text field keybindings and text-editing behaviors (good summary of default bindings here); bug 330968

  Listed on MozillaWiki Summer of Code page (but probably not large enough in scope for SoC)

• Copy/paste of styled text; bug 79864

  Listed on MozillaWiki Summer of Code page

• Improved AppleScript support; Camino bugs 178917, 160106, 314061, 253486, 156078

  Listed on MozillaWiki Summer of Code page

• Keychain rewrite for Camino; 172842, 177941, 179672, 178607, 187720, (maybe 202337) (smorgan largely did this)

  Listed on MozillaWiki Summer of Code page

• Fix/Implement Single-Window Mode (SWM) in Camino; Bug 274143 (pinkerton did this)

  Listed on MozillaWiki Summer of Code page

• Fix issues with XUL in the content area in Camino (make XUL webapps completely functional; at least menus, selects, and context menus don't work right now); bug 306252, bug 306613

• .mar/AUS-based Software Update; Bug 185436

• Tab exposé; Bug 312007

• Full-screen mode; Bug 245000

• etc.

Other Camino bugs

• All open Camino bugs
• Bugs targeted for Camino 1.1
• See also: Dogfood for 1.8 branch and trunk, spring 2006