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Students Welcome
If you are a student looking forward to participating in GSOC 2017 with Fedora, please feel free to browse this idea list which is still growing.
Now please go read the What Can I do Today section of the main page.
Do not hesitate to contact the mentors or contributors listed on this page for any questions or clarification. You can find helpful people on the #fedora-summer-coding[?] IRC channel, or use the summer-coding@lists.fedoraproject.org mailing list. #fedora-devel[?] can be used for getting help with programming problems.
If you are new to the Fedora Project, the following material will help you to get started. You should also follow the student application process
Supporting Mentors
The following contributors are available to provide general help and support for the GSoC 2017 program (existing contributors, feel free to add yourselves and your wiki page). If a specific project mentor is busy, you can contact one of the people below for short-term help on your project or task.
- Brian (bex) Exelbierd (Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator, FCAIC, 🎂, containers, general development, general Linux)
- Justin W. Flory (General development, general Linux, Fedora community, GSoC alumnus, questions about program, misc. advice)
- Radka (rhea) Janek (C#, webserver or dotnet related stuff on Linux, general support and help with the program)
- Corey Sheldon (Python, 2Factor/Multi-Factor Auth, QA Testing, general mentoring, security, 2nd year mentor)
- Sachin S. Kamath (General Linux, Fedora community, Metrics, GSoC alumnus, Help with program)
- Bhagyashree(Bee) ( Fedora community, Metrics, Python, past GSoC mentor, Support related to GSoC)
Draft of an idea
Please add your idea using the following template. The template contains comments in italic text, examples and questions that should be answered. Please copy the template (your idea) into the list of ideas - do not change it here.
Project Name
| Status | Proposed - draft Use this status. |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Novice / Intermediate / Proficient Are the required skills below something a beginner would no or could reasonably learn quickly? Is there an area where knowledge is already expected making this an advanced project? Also consider how much knowledge about Fedora is required. |
| Skills required | Programming languages or other skills that the student should already posess. Keep in mind that students come to both practice thieir existing skills and grow. Scope your tasks for someone to be able to apply and learn during the project, therefore you shouldn't list everything required to complete the task. |
| Mentor(s) | If your SIG is taking the responsibility, specify as in this example (and always link to people or groups) DotNet SIG - Radka (rhea) Janek, ... |
| Contacts (IRC & email) | #example-irc-channel[?] & example-list@lists.fedoraproject.org - Mentors email or mailing list of your SIG. |
| Idea description | Something something. |
| Notes & references | Something or nothing. |
Idea list for GSoC 2017
389 Directory Server: developing administrative tools
| Status | Proposed - draft |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Intermediate |
| Skills required | Python: Must understand Classes, Inheritance, and Modules |
| Mentor(s) | William Brown (firstyear UTC+10, please be patient!) |
| Contacts (IRC & email) | #389[?] & 389-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org |
| Idea description |
389 Directory Server is an enterprise class LDAP server, used in businesses globally to authenticate and identify people. We have a large code base that has gone through nearly 20 years of evolution. Part of this evolution has been the recent addition of a python administration framework designed to replace our legacy perl tools. The framework already has the base classes designed and written, but we need help to knit together the high level administrative functionality. Throughout this process you will need to:
From this you will learn:
What are we looking for:
Is this project right for you?
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| Notes & references | port389.org |
ASP.NET Core web application for /r/Fedora subreddit
| Status | Proposed - draft |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Novice |
| Skills required | Basic C# |
| Mentor(s) | DotNet SIG - Radka (rhea) Janek |
| Contacts (IRC & email) | #fedora-dotnet[?] & dotnet-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org | radka.janek@redhat.com |
| Idea description |
Goals:
You will learn:
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| Notes & references | .NET on Fedora, ipsilon |
.NET Core wrapper library for systemd
| Status | Proposed - draft |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Intermediate |
| Skills required | C# and basic Linux |
| Mentor(s) | DotNet SIG - Radka (rhea) Janek |
| Contacts (IRC & email) | #fedora-dotnet[?] & dotnet-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org | radka.janek@redhat.com |
| Idea description |
Goals:
You will learn:
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| Notes & references | .NET on Fedora |
Continuous static analysis db
| Status | Proposed - draft |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Intermediate |
| Skills required |
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| Mentor(s) | Athos Ribiero (athoscr) |
| Contacts (IRC & email) | IRC: athos
Email: athoscribeiro@gmail.com |
| Idea description |
This project proposes the design and implementation of a system to continuously run multiple security oriented static analyzers on source code and display the alarms related to a specific version of the analyzed software. The alarms to be presented will be ranked based on their importance, where critical flaws shall be ranked first and potential false positives are ranked last. We will develop a tool to perform continuous static analysis with different static analyzers and propose a warning classification method using their outputs. We will also propose a visualization approach for the information generated with our tool. |
| Notes & references | Static Analysis SIG |
Integration between package managers: dnf pip plugin
| Status | Proposed - draft |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Intermediate |
| Skills required |
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| Mentor(s) | Python SIG - Miro Hrončok |
| Contacts (IRC & email) |
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| Idea description | Let’s create a dnf plugin to allow the user to do stuff like sudo dnf pip install -r requirements.txt to install as much Python requirements from RPM as possible. The plugin will use Automatic Provides for Python RPM Packages (Fedora 25+ Feature) to find the appropriate packages to install.
You will be developing a DNF plugin in Python. We will help you with understanding the requirements, you’ll have to parse the requirements.txt. You will learn:
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| Notes & references | User:Churchyard/dnfpip |
Migrate Plinth to Fedora Server
| Status | Proposed - draft |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Novice |
| Skills required |
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| Mentor(s) | Tong Hui (first year, UTC+8, please be patient!) |
| Contacts (IRC & email) |
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| Idea description | Plinth is developed by Freedombox which is a Debian based project. The Freedombox is aiming for building a 100% free software self-hosting web server to deploy social applications on small machines. It provides online communication tools respecting user privacy and data ownership, replacing services provided by third-parties that under surveillance. Plinth is the front-end of Freedombox, written in Python.
This idea mainly about migrate Plinth from Deb-based to RPM-based, and make it available for Fedora Server which will running on ARM machines. It is better student familiar with ARM based hardware and know something about how to running a Fedora Server on it, or use something like Qemu. The main goal of this idea is to make Plinth works fine in Fedora Server or Minimal flavor. Because Plinth write APT commands hard coded, so it is better we make it more adoptive for RPM. The secondary goal is make a RPM package for Plinth. You will learn:
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| Notes & references | Architectures/ARM |
Patternfly Frontend Pattern Development
| Status | Proposed - draft Use this status. |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Intermediate |
| Skills required | Javascript |
| Mentor(s) | Brian Leathem |
| Contacts (IRC & email) | #patternfly (freenode) patternfly@redhat.com |
| Idea description | Explore the emerging web component specifications by implementing patternfly.org patterns as web components. Begin with smaller simpler web component implementations to learn the APIs, then follow on with a more complex composite component to fully exercise the APIs and make a robust and feature-rich web components. Engage the PatternFly developer community to learn and contribute to the collective web component effort. |
| Notes & references | https://patternfly-webcomponents.github.io/ |
Fedora Media Writer - New Features
| Status | Proposed - draft |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Intermediate |
| Skills required | C++/Qt and/or QML |
| Mentor(s) | Martin Bříza |
| Contacts (IRC & email) | mbriza on Freenode (for example on #fedora-devel[?] or #fedora-apps[?]) or mbriza@redhat.com |
| Idea description | Fedora Media Writer is a tool that makes putting Fedora images on portable media (such as flash drives) much easier. Since Fedora 25, it is offered as the default download options for users coming to https://getfedora.org from a Mac or a Windows computer.
Ever since the rewrite from liveusb-creator, there has been some features missing from it and due to the popular demand, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get them readded. You won't need to implement all of these. Just one would be perfectly fine. However, please contact me first so we can arrange the details of your potential application. There is a short list of some things that could be done (however, feel free to get in touch about anything else, or look on the GitHub page for some more):
Understanding of libraries and techniques relevant to this project on Linux, Mac or Windows (or all of them) is a big plus. You'll learn more about multiplatform development and be involved in the project that is the first thing new users see when they are going to try Fedora. |
| Notes & references | https://github.com/MartinBriza/MediaWriter |
Adwaita and HighContrast style for QtQuickControls
| Status | Proposed - draft |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Novice |
| Skills required | QML and a little bit of C++ |
| Mentor(s) | Martin Bříza |
| Contacts (IRC & email) | mbriza on Freenode (for example on #fedora-devel[?] or #fedora-apps[?]) or mbriza@redhat.com |
| Idea description | Fedora Workstation ships custom Qt themes that match its Adwaita and Highcontrast themes from its default GNOME desktop environment. This makes Qt applications blend nicely into the overall Fedora Worstation experience.
However, to fully support most of the Qt applications, we need to have QtQuickControls (QML) themes implemented, too. Work on this would consist of three main parts:
This project is best suited to a candidate who wants to learn about QML. |
| Notes & references | https://github.com/MartinBriza/adwaita-qt |
Fedora CommOps : Centralized Metrics generation
| Status | Proposed - draft |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Intermediate |
| Skills required |
Required:
Bonus Skills:
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| Mentor(s) | Sachin S. Kamath (skamath)
Bhagyashree(Bee) (bee2502) |
| Contacts (IRC & email) | #fedora-commops[?] & commops@lists.fedoraproject.org |
| Idea description |
Right now, metrics collection in CommOps is not very efficient and requires a lot of manual work. Metrics for various events/FAS groups/users are collected using scripts which query datagrepper and return results. This process is very time consuming and writing scripts each time is a very tedious process. Also, querying the datagrepper to get data everytime is redundant and time-consuming. Hack on statscache to build a central metrics generation system for Fedora with handy features to pull statistics. Take a look at the Pagure ticket for more details. |
| Notes & references | Pagure ticket |
Open Ideas From GSoC 2016
In addition to the above list of ideas, you may want to check out ideas from previous years and contact the mentors for those projects to see if they're still interested in mentoring someone this year.
Note: Do not submit a proposal for an idea from a previous year without contacting the mentor to ensure they will be available to mentor you. Without a mentor, proposals will be rejected.
Previous years: