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 actual devs for suitability ;-)

Good First Bugs

• good first bug query

Camino and Gecko-Mac Projects

Some of these projects were listed on the MozillaWiki 2006 Summer of Code or 2007 Summer of Code pages.

Camino

• Full-screen mode; Bug 245000

• Rewrite autocomplete in Cocoa; Bug 340611

• Move history off of Mork; Bug 351351

• AppleScript support for reading page contents/page source (will require lots of digging into Gecko); Bug 374648, Bug 394582

• AppleScript support for making new tabs/windows (will require lots of wrapping BW); Bug 395711, Bug 395712

• 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

Gecko-Mac

• Revive/finish the Cocoa-Gecko accessibility work (see below for the original work).

• 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 (probably not large enough in scope for SoC even if you implement automatic support for Cocoa bindings Bug 282097; see comment 2 there)

• Copy/paste of styled text; Bug 79864, Bug 356218

  Listed on MozillaWiki Summer of Code page

Other Camino bugs

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

Historical Examples

Below are historical examples of things we've thought would make good projects.

Small Projects

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

  Listed on MozillaWiki Summer of Code page

• .mar/AUS-based Software Update; Bug 185436 (smorgan did this using Sparkle)

Larger/Summer Projects

• Tab exposé; Bug 312007 (jeff did this in SoC 2007)

• Improved AppleScript support; Camino bugs 178917, 160106, 314061, 253486, 156078 (peeja largely did this in SoC 2007)

  Listed on MozillaWiki Summer of Code page

• Drag-and-Drop Reorderable Tabs; Bug 160720 and Bug 318260 (delliott is doing this as part of the 2006 SoC) (delliott had a patch but didn't finish this in SoC 2006; jeff worked on it during fall 2007/winter 2008)

  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

• Support a11y in the content area (bridge Apple's 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 :)