Google Code-in Ideas 2011

This was the brainstorm page for the ​Google Code-In.

Developers, translators and documenters: All new tasks should be added right into melange.

Prospective Students: This page should give you an idea of what tasks may be available for Haiku.

1. Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code

Resolve any open Haiku trac ticket numbered under 3999	difficult	C/C++
Resolve any open Haiku trac ticket numbered 4000-8100	medium/difficult	C/C++
Add Haiku native GUI to the cmake port, (​http://ports.haiku-files.org/ticket/236)	difficult	C
Bluetooth Stack/UI Improvements (​http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc8wsckv_6d8qdzbfz)	medium	C/C++
Resolve SDL bug 1031 (​http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1031)	medium	C/C++
Implement a patch per Comment 2 in Bug:6746	easy	C/C++
Create a linux package (.deb / ppa) for bfs_fuse	medium	Shell/other
Research and implement AMD SimNow HDD image build target	difficult	C++
Update poorman to use layout manager https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/3787 3787	medium	C++

2. Documentation: Tasks related to creating/editing documents

Verify if all the steps mentioned in the "Welcome to Haiku" document are accurate, and suggest improvements.	easy
Update the Haiku User Manual pages for Mail, including screenshots	easy
Update the Haiku User Manual pages for ShowImage, including screenshots	easy
Update the Haiku User Manual pages for MediaPlayer, including screenshots	easy
Update the Haiku User Manual pages for MidiPlayer, including screenshots	easy
Update the Haiku User Manual pages for PackageInstaller, including screenshots	easy
Update the Haiku User Manual pages for SoundRecorder, including screenshots	easy
Update the Haiku User Manual pages for TV, including screenshots, (may require video capture card)	easy
Update the Haiku User Manual pages for Web+, including screenshots	easy
Update the Haiku User Manual pages for PowerStatus applet, including screenshots	easy
Update the Haiku User Manual pages for Locale preferences, including screenshots	easy
Write an introduction for one of Haiku's kits for ​http://api.haiku-os.org	medium
Write documentation for one class in API reference manual	difficult

3. Outreach: Tasks related to community management and outreach/marketing

Present a Haiku lightning talk (about 5 minutes long) at a local Linux User Group or similar interested group. (5 or so slides on a specific part of Haiku)	medium
Present Haiku at a local Linux User Group or similar interested group. (20 or so slides and demo time)	hard
Create a more gripping screenshot slideshow for the website.	easy
Create a color flyer to hand out at conferences	medium
Create a new Haiku sticker design	easy
Create a black and white flyer that can be printed on a standard laser printer to be used as a hand out	medium

4. Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality

Test all open trac tickets for Expander (6) and indicate whether they are still valid. Add extra information as needed.	easy
Test all open trac tickets (0-6700) for MediaPlayer ShowImage (22) and indicate whether they are still valid. Add extra information as needed.	hard
Test all open trac tickets (6700-8100)for MediaPlayer (21) and indicate whether they are still valid. Add extra information as needed.	hard
Test all open trac tickets for ShowImage (15) and indicate whether they are still valid. Add extra information as needed.	medium
Test all open trac tickets for StyledEdit(15) and indicate whether they are still valid. Add extra information as needed.	medium
Test all open trac tickets for Terminal (28) and indicate whether they are still valid. Add extra information as needed.	hard

5. Research: Tasks related to studying a problem and recommending solutions

Summarize past mailing list discussions on patch management issues.	medium
Research the various virtualization programs and recommended settings to get Haiku to run on them. Installing Haiku to new and larger virtual-disk images, figure out which settings to use for which VM software and how to add the VMware add-ons, common issues and work-arounds	medium

6. Training: Tasks related to helping others learn more

Make a video showing off queries (see #2119)	medium
Make a video showing off Stack and Tile	medium
Make a video showing off the power of Haiku's image translators, and other translators	medium
Make a video showing how to write and build a C++ "Hello World" program using the BeAPI	medium
Update the step by step build instructions on the Haiku web site to reflect the switch from svn to git, and verify that it works	medium

7. Translation: Tasks related to localization

• Translation tasks subject to change depending on which languages we are able to cover with matching mentors
• These tasks may or may not be broken into smaller tasks depending on how much is already completed,
  

for untranslated languages they will most likely be broken down into 6-8 tasks,
each taking about 4-6 hours to complete for a native speaker.

Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Czech	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Norwegian Nynorsk	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Bulgarian	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Danish	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Dutch	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Esperanto	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Estonian	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Finnish	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Hungarian	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Indonesian	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Italian	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Lithuanian	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Norwegian Bokmål	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Polish	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Romanian	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Scottish (Gaelic)	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Spanish	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Tagalog	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Ukrainian	medium
Finish the translation for German	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Arabic	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Catalan	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Hindi	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Low German/Saxon	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Malay	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Modern Hebrew	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Persian (Farsi?)	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Serbian	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Swiss German	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Thai	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Traditional Chinese	medium
Update translation for apps (A-Z) in Turkish	medium

8. User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction

Check over the various apps included in Haiku, both with the fonts set to size 12 and set to size 18. Check the apps for text alignment report any issues you find. Keep a list of the apps that you checked over.	easy
Check over the various apps include in Haiku, checking it with various languages set. Note any text alignment problems and report any issues you find. Keep a list of the apps that you checked over, and languages checked.	easy
Check over the various apps included in Haiku, looking for instances of large/too small spacing between elements. Document these problems with annotated screenshots added as attachments in Trac.	easy
Some Haiku apps/preflets use non-standard controls that could be replaced with standard ones, eg. custom progress bars etc.. Identify where these are used, so that they can be updated to use standard controls	easy
Search Haiku's trac for issues related to the GUI and recheck them to see if they are still valid.	medium