gnusocial
Check the programme page to learn more about the programme and on how to apply.
GNU social is a social communication software used in federated social networks. It is widely supported and has a large userbase.
If you would like to know how is it like to be a GSoC student at GNU social, read this blog post!
We have applied as an organisation to Google Summer of Code 2022, we are still waiting for the result. In 2020 we've had a successful student supported by The Freaks Club, you can reach thndrbvr and try your luck, or look for another sponsor.
Below is a list of ideas you can work on this Summer at GNU social. You should pick one (or mix a couple) of them and talk on IRC about it. The community will help you understanding what has to be done so you can put a good proposal together.
Warning: We do not accept projects of 175h workload.
Description: Our current forms have their controller embedded in the UI construction.
Outcomes: Processing on dedicated controller, splitting logic from UI.
Skills required: PHP
Skills preferred: Twig
Mentors: Hugo Sales, Eliseu Amaro
Difficulty: Hard
Workload: 350h
Description: - Add XMPP Notifications queue; - Add reply to note via XMPP; - and Add XMPP chat.
Outcomes: This would be a port of the v2 XMPP plugin with improved functionality.
Skills required: PHP, XMPP
Mentors: Diogo Cordeiro, Alexey Sorokin, Joshua Judson Rosen
Difficulty: Hard
Workload: 350h
Description: We have a custom cache system which is not understood by Symfony. Improve our autoloader so it can be configurable instead of just loading everything.
Outcomes: Symfony profiler can give useful information concerning cache. Decide which plugins should be loaded on runtime; Replace components with local ones; Replace templates with local ones.
Skills required: PHP
Mentors: Hugo Sales, Diogo Cordeiro
Difficulty: Hard
Workload: 350h
Description: Pure HTML + CSS solutions for Image-related manipulation
Outcomes: Provide an easy Twig macro interface for image manipulation, this includes: cropping images without requiring client side JS; adding annotations to images; and a plugin to have a XMP interface background animaton using SVGs.
Skills required: CSS2.2, PHP
Skills preferred: Twig
Mentors: Eliseu Amaro
Difficulty: Medium
Workload: 350h
Description: Restore that nostalgic and old-fashioned UI.
Outcomes: Have a heartwarmed community finding you wholesome.
Skills required: Semantic HTML, CSS2.2, Orca
Mentors: Eliseu Amaro
Difficulty: Medium
Workload: 350h
Description: Create unit tests for components and plugins.
Outcomes: Review the whole unfully tested codebase.
Skills required: PHP, PHPUnit
Mentors: Hugo Sales, Diogo Cordeiro, Eliseu Amaro
Difficulty: Medium
Workload: 350h
Description: Restore these functionalities that were available in v2.
Outcomes: The user can set a url shortner, create events, and create polls.
Skills required: PHP, CSS2.2, HTML
Mentors: Diogo Cordeiro, Eliseu Amaro
Difficulty: Medium
Workload: 350h