Google Summer Of Code 2009 Ideas for Haiku

Here's a list of some of the ideas that have been discussed on the ​Haiku Development Mailing List

• usb_webcam driver
  • make it portable to other OSes
  • fix bugs
  • add more webcams

• usb_video (UVC) driver -- for higher end webcams and other devices

• Implement either RamDisk or RamFS

• GCC4 Native toolchain

• DriveSetup -- finish implementation

• bootman -- finish implementation

• IPv6 support

• Improve "ata" bus_manager (adding DMA and ATAPI support) - assuming it's still not finished by GSoC time that is

• Improve PCI bus_manager resource-allocation/management (see tickets: #3 #4 #5 )

• Port (any) 3d driver to our hardware-acceleration plugin model (perhaps either the Intel, or AMD reference drivers?)

• Complete the port of FreeBSD wireless stack and at least one driver (would depend on progress made in the meantime I guess)

• Add OpenBFS support to FUSE (so other OSes could read/write BFS volumes)

• Add PCMCIA support (ok, that ones a bit selfish since I have several laptops that could benefit)

• Add ExpressCard support (not sure what would actually be needed for this, but at least hot-pluggable support on top of PCIe I suppose)

• Media Encoding support see ticket #1043 others?

• Testing infrastructure for the media add-ons.

• Generic S/PDIF support in media kit, ie not special cased by the application

• AC-3 encoding support -> S/PDIF, for 5.1 support to receivers in media kit

• Add OpenBFS support, SSD, Transparent compression, Allocate-on-flush, Desfrag Online,Sparse files, Delayed allocation, Persistent preallocation, and Journal checksumming like Btrfs and ext4 ​http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4

• 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/

Sharing tasks with other projects

• AbiWord: update/redo the BeOS port.

• OpenOffice: Some step have been documented on the ​EducOOo wiki, and it was planned on doing it as part of it, but maybe some steps could be done as SoC.

• VideoLAN: update the port and rewrite the BeOS GUI.

• Scribus: we could also port this Publisher-like app, ​http://www.scribus.net/

• OpenJDK didn't seem to have participated, but maybe they would help with the java port.

• NetSurf port: NetSurf participated last year and is planning this year's tasks. Again having a common task might appeal to Google.
  • improve Haiku support (GUI, bookmark/cache/download backends, printing, prefs, ...).

• Eclipse: we could probably use a native eclipse toolkit port, once we get Java :)

• Cairo: BeOS/Haiku specific code needs updating, we need that for Firefox, and probably other things too...

• BZFlag: Was ported to BeOS long ago, updating the port would probably not be enough for a single task, but might keep

someone busy after he's done with his job :)

• ARM port: Handhelds.org participated in 2007, maybe they'd be interested in sponsoring an ARM port

• Mono: partial port was started in 2008.

• wxWidget: there is a port started (called wxBeOS), but no one had time to finish it.

• WINE: port to Haiku

• Continue WebKit Port -syncing ryan's most recent code with the latest svn/git/whatever tree. -removing bugs and other issues on it

• Transmission update the BeOS GUI to work with branch 1.4x's GUI