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| | 2 | == Google Summer Of Code 2009 Ideas for Haiku == |
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| | 4 | '''Here's a list of some of the ideas that have been discussed on the [http://www.freelists.org/archive/haiku-development/ Haiku Development Mailing List]'''[[BR]] |
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| | 6 | * usb_webcam driver |
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| | 8 | * usb_video (UVC) driver |
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| | 10 | * Implement either RamDisk or RamFS |
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| | 12 | * GCC4 Native toolchain |
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| | 14 | * DriveSetup -- finish implementation |
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| | 16 | * bootman -- finish implementation |
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| | 18 | * IPv6 support |
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| | 20 | * Improve "ata" bus_manager (adding DMA and ATAPI support) - assuming |
| | 21 | it's still not finished by GSoC time that is |
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| | 23 | * Improve PCI bus_manager resource-allocation/management (see tickets: #3 #4 #5 ) |
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| | 25 | * Port (any) 3d driver to our hardware-acceleration plugin model |
| | 26 | (perhaps either the Intel, or AMD reference drivers?) |
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| | 28 | * Complete the port of FreeBSD wireless stack and at least one driver |
| | 29 | (would depend on progress made in the meantime I guess) |
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| | 31 | * Add OpenBFS support to FUSE (so other OSes could read/write BFS volumes) |
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| | 33 | * Add PCMCIA support (ok, that ones a bit selfish since I have several |
| | 34 | laptops that could benefit) |
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| | 36 | * Add ExpressCard support (not sure what would actually be needed for |
| | 37 | this, but at least hot-pluggable support on top of PCIe I suppose) |
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| | 39 | * Media Encoding support see ticket #1043 others? |
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| | 41 | * Testing infrastructure for the media add-ons. |
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| | 43 | * Generic S/PDIF support in media kit, ie not special cased by the application |
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| | 45 | * AC-3 encoding support -> S/PDIF, for 5.1 support to receivers in media kit |
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| | 47 | * Add OpenBFS support, SSD, Transparent compression, Allocate-on-flush, Extents, Desfrag Online,Sparse files, Delayed allocation, Persistent preallocation, and Journal checksumming like Btrfs and ext4 http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4 |
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| | 49 | * Improve multi-byte support (see tickets #215 #840 #976 #1855 #2241 others?) |
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| | 52 | == Sharing tasks with other projects == |
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| | 54 | * AbiWord: update/redo the BeOS port. |
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| | 56 | * OpenOffice: Some step have been documented on the |
| | 57 | EducOOo wiki, and it was planned on doing it as part of it, but maybe |
| | 58 | some steps could be done as SoC. |
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| | 60 | * VideoLAN: update the port and rewrite the BeOS GUI |
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| | 62 | * Scribus: we could also port this Publisher-like app, http://www.scribus.net/ |
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| | 64 | * OpenJDK didn't seem to have participated, but maybe they would help |
| | 65 | with the java port |
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| | 67 | * NetSurf port: improve Haiku support (GUI, bookmark/cache/download |
| | 68 | backends, printing, prefs, ...). |
| | 69 | NetSurf participated last year and is planning this year's tasks. Again |
| | 70 | having a common task might appeal to Google. |
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| | 72 | * Eclipse: we could probably use a native eclipse toolkit port, once we |
| | 73 | get Java :) |
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| | 75 | * Cairo: BeOS/Haiku specific code needs updating, we need that for Firefox, and probably other things too... |
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| | 77 | * BZFlag: Was ported to BeOS long ago, updating the |
| | 78 | port would probably not be enough for a single task, but might keep |
| | 79 | someone busy after he's done with his job :) |
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| | 81 | * Handhelds.org participated in 2007, maybe they'd be interested in |
| | 82 | sponsoring an ARM port |
| | 83 | |
| | 84 | * Mono: partial port was started in 2008. |
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| | 86 | * wxWidget: there is a port started (called wxBeOS), but no one has time to finish it. |
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| | 88 | * WINE: port to Haiku |
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| | 90 | * Continue WebKit Port |
| | 91 | -syncing ryan's most recent code with the latest svn/git/whatever tree. |
| | 92 | -removing bugs and other issues on it |
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| | 94 | * Transmission update the BeOS GUI to work with branch 1.4x's GUI |
