| 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]] |
| 5 | | |
| 6 | | * usb_webcam driver |
| 7 | | - make it portable to other OSes |
| 8 | | - fix bugs |
| 9 | | - add more webcams |
| 10 | | |
| 11 | | * usb_video (UVC) driver -- for higher end webcams and other devices |
| 12 | | |
| 13 | | * GCC4 Native toolchain |
| 14 | | |
| 15 | | * DriveSetup -- finish implementation |
| 16 | | |
| 17 | | * bootman -- finish implementation |
| 18 | | |
| 19 | | * IPv6 support |
| 20 | | |
| 21 | | * Improve "ata" bus_manager (adding DMA and ATAPI support) - assuming it's still not finished by GSoC time that is |
| 22 | | |
| 23 | | * Improve PCI bus_manager resource-allocation/management (see tickets: #3 #4 #5 ) |
| 24 | | |
| 25 | | * Port (any) 3d driver to our hardware-acceleration plugin model (perhaps either the Intel, or AMD reference drivers?) |
| 26 | | |
| 27 | | * Complete the port of FreeBSD wireless stack and at least one driver (would depend on progress made in the meantime I guess) |
| 28 | | |
| 29 | | * Add BFS support to FUSE (so other OSes could read/write BFS volumes) |
| 30 | | |
| 31 | | * Add PCMCIA support |
| 32 | | |
| 33 | | * Add ExpressCard support (not sure what would actually be needed for this, but at least hot-pluggable support on top of PCIe I suppose) |
| 34 | | |
| 35 | | * Media Encoding support see ticket #1043 others? |
| 36 | | |
| 37 | | * Testing infrastructure for the media add-ons. |
| 38 | | |
| 39 | | * Generic S/PDIF support in media kit, ie not special cased by the application |
| 40 | | |
| 41 | | * AC-3 encoding support -> S/PDIF, for 5.1 support to receivers in Media Kit |
| 42 | | |
| 43 | | * Develop a successor to BFS for SSD, Transparent compression, Allocate-on-flush, Online defragmentation, Sparse files, Delayed allocation, Persistent preallocation, and Journal checksumming like Btrfs and ext4 http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4 |
| 44 | | |
| 45 | | * Improve multi-byte support (see tickets #215 #840 #976 #1855 #2241 others?) There is also a huge Unicode support library we could port: http://icu-project.org/ |
| 46 | | |
| 47 | | * Implement a CIFS module. |
| 48 | | |
| 49 | | |
| 50 | | == Sharing tasks with other projects == |
| 51 | | |
| 52 | | * AbiWord: update/redo the BeOS port. |
| 53 | | |
| 54 | | * OpenOffice: Some steps have been documented on the [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/Effort#Applications_for_Haiku_port EducOOo wiki] and it was planned on doing it as part of it, but maybe some steps could be done as SoC. |
| 55 | | |
| 56 | | * VideoLAN: update the port and rewrite the BeOS GUI. |
| 57 | | |
| 58 | | * Scribus: we could also port this Publisher-like app, http://www.scribus.net/ |
| 59 | | |
| 60 | | * OpenJDK didn't seem to have participated, but maybe they would help with the java port. |
| 61 | | |
| 62 | | * NetSurf port: NetSurf participated last year and is planning this year's tasks. Again having a common task might appeal to Google. |
| 63 | | - improve Haiku support (GUI, bookmark/cache/download backends, printing, prefs, ...). |
| 64 | | |
| 65 | | * Eclipse: we could probably use a native eclipse toolkit port, once we get Java :) |
| 66 | | |
| 67 | | * Cairo: BeOS/Haiku specific code needs updating, we need that for Firefox, AbiWord, and probably other things too... |
| 68 | | |
| 69 | | * BZFlag: Was ported to BeOS long ago, updating the port would probably not be enough for a single task, but might keep |
| 70 | | someone busy after he's done with his job :) |
| 71 | | |
| 72 | | * ARM port: Handhelds.org participated in 2007, maybe they'd be interested in sponsoring an ARM port |
| 73 | | |
| 74 | | * Mono: partial port was started in 2008. |
| 75 | | |
| 76 | | * wxWidget: there is a port started (called wxBeOS), but no one had time to finish it. |
| 77 | | |
| 78 | | * WINE: port to Haiku |
| 79 | | |
| 80 | | * Continue WebKit Port |
| 81 | | -syncing ryan's most recent code with the latest svn/git/whatever tree. |
| 82 | | -removing bugs and other issues on it |
| 83 | | |
| 84 | | * Transmission update the BeOS GUI to work with branch 1.4x's GUI |
| | 3 | See official page here: [http://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc2009/ideas] |
