Ideas
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.
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- Split Form (logic and template) -
- XMPP Plugin -
- Integrate GS cache with symfony -
- Add (verb) tags to Notes -
- Avatar cropper without JS -
- More unit tests -
- Conversations reconstructor -
- Mascot plugin -
- LinkRedirectFollowPlugin -
- JS Extras Plugin -
- URL Shortening Plugin -
- SMS Plugin -
- Rotate Background colours PS3 plugin -
Warning: We do not accept projects of 175h workload.
+ +Improve GNU social v3 form handling
+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
+ +XMPP Plugin
+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
+ +Integrate GS cache into Symfony and Configurable Autoloader
+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
+ +Old school image manipulation without JS
+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
+ +Bring back GNU social v2 themes
+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
+ +Reliability Engineering
+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
+ +Bring back LinkRedirectPlugin, URLShortnerPlugin, HappeningsPlugin, PollPlugin, and SMSPlugin
+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