Google Code-in Ideas 2017

This is the brainstorm page for the ​Google Code-In contest for 2017. As such, some or many of these may not end up being in our final released list of tasks that end up in Google Code-In. If you are a student, DO NOT start working on these ahead of time as they are ALL subject to change.

Our aim for this year will be to help bring Haiku closer to a Beta 1 release. This will be a good chance for you to see your work end up in a released product! We hope to have a large number of fun tasks this year. Whether this is your first time learning about Haiku, or your second or third time competing in the Code-In, we will have tasks suited to a variety of skill levels.

For Haiku Users and Developers, this is your chance to suggest some task ideas that students would be able to complete in about 2-4 hours of work time spread out over a few days. You can suggest bigger tasks, but they should be ones such that they could be broken down into smaller parts that fit this 2-4 hour timeline.

General Information

Google has announced that they are going to hold Google Code-In 2017 as disclosed ​in this blog post.

If you are interested in submitting an idea for a task then you can make one ​by posting on this topic in our forum.

For students interested in participating in Google Code-In 2017 be sure to read through Google's ​Getting Started Guide.

1. Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code

For coding tasks students should make sure to follow ​Haiku's coding guidelines.

1.1 Code an app for Haiku (including multi-part tasks)

	Example task	Example Skills	Example link
X	Code a Password Manager using Haiku's BKeystore	UI design, C++	​Seahorse, Haiku ticket on subject
X	Code a simple Photo post-production app (red eye remover)	UI design, C++
X	Code an Advanced Download Manager		​iGetter, ​FOLX
X	Code a Graphical Profiler/Tracer		KCachegrind, AMD CodeAnalyst, Stackify
X	Code a Graphical Crash Reporter		Apple Crash Reporter, Goolge Breakpad (MIT)
X	Code a graphical interface for Haiku's RemoteDesktop		​RemoteDesktop
X	Code a ScreenReader for Haiku		Haiku ticket on subject
X	Code a graphical event/syslog viewer		Ticket on subject
X	Code a speech recognition app		Ticket on subject
X	Code a Haiku notification Center		Ticket on subject
	Code a Currency Converter
	Code a system Dictionary
	Code a vector graphics editor (reuse Icon-O-Matic code)
	Code a CountDown/StopWatch/TimeZoneCheck app
X	Code a Action Automation app		Xnee, Apple Automator, Automise
	Code a Video Manager		​cosmos
	Code a Subtitle Editor		Gnome Subtitles
	Code a Hardware compatibility analysis app	C++, Python	​to be used with this web app
X	Merge Spider Solitaire and Klondike from previous GCI into a single "card game" app	C++
	Code a game of Ishido	C++	Can use tilesets from BShisen / SDLopan
X	Code a MIDI event viewer for debugging MIDI devices and apps	C++
	Code an easy to use attribute manager for Haiku	C++	​Tags
	Code a text document manager takes advantage of metadata	C++	​idocument
X	Merge bknob and bdial together and upstream to Haiku repo	C++	​bknob, ​bdial
	Improve map application from 2016 Google Code-In	C++	​https://github.com/raefaldhia/Maps
	Code an SQLite workbench app	C++	​http://sqlitebrowser.org/

1.2 Develop a web app, a plugin or fix a issue related to Haiku's web infrastructure

	Example task	Example Skills	Example link
X	Fix a bug in our web app that records hardware compatibility		​Codebase on Github
	Fix a bug in our documentation translation tool		tickets on trac
	Fix a bug in our copy of Pootle		tickets on trac

1.3 Refactor, clean up or improve Haiku code

	Example task	Example Skills	Example link
	Fix a issue in Mail		Wiki page on Mail
X	Finish the network VirtIO driver for Haiku	C++	Ticket on subject
	Implement a console/serial VirtIO driver for Haiku	C++
	Add missing devices to our ice1712 driver	C++	Ticket on subject