SummerOfCodeIdeas2010
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I want to be one of your Google Summer of Code students, what should I do...
Here is a quick list of things to do at this time:
- MOST IMPORTANT Join the irc channel (#wesnoth-dev on irc.freenode.net) and talk about your project and your appilication. We will not give formal interviews, but we will clearly favor people we have learned to know during the selection process (basically communication via IRC is mandatory for our project! it is the main way of "every day communication" for Wesnoth. For the same reason, it's also a good idea to regularly read the IRC logs.).
- VERY IMPORTANT Update the wiki page about your idea:
- Fill the questionnaire.
- Detail your idea as much as possible, look at other students pages, and please give timeline, milestones and studies you've done
- If you haven't done so yet, create an account on gna.org (required for committing later on)
- If you haven't done so yet, create an account on the wesnoth forum, and tell an admin of the forum or leader of the group on the IRC channel to mark it as a GSoC Student account (admins/group leaders are: Boucman, Crab, fendrin/Fabi, Ivanovic, Mordante/SkeletonCrew, Noy, shadowmaster, Sirp/Dave, Soliton)
- Though not mandatory, it is highly advisable to go to the EasyCoding and NotSoEasyCoding pages and implement one of these ideas (or any idea of similar scope) so we have an idea how you work. Be sure to use your gna account when submitting these patches so we know who it is coming from. You can also implement some features from our feature request database at gna. When you implement something, also list it on your own page with a reference to the patch. This should give you a good idea what the Wesnoth sourcecode is like and will provide a good start to getting used to our coding style, too. You can also start working on your project and submit patches/prototypes related to it
- For working on Wesnoth you have to be able to compile trunk. To do so you should have a look at the page about the repository and afterwards compile Wesnoth.
- Accepted student proposals will be published on April 26th at 19:00 UTC (12:00 noon PDT)
Information about our Project
The information we provided google with about our project can be looked up at the site SoC Information for Google.
Also see the DeveloperResources link (from the Project page).
People to bug on IRC
We have prepared a list of people with their "area of competence". This is to give you an idea on which areas those people can be of help for you. Of course you should always just ask in the IRC chan, but those are the most likely ones to answer questions in the respective area. And here is the list:
List of Ideas for the Project (Suggestions from wesnoth developers)
| NOTE: this list of ideas is automatically generated from the 'description' section of pages in Summer of Code 2010 Idea category. DO NOT TRY TO EDIT THIS LIST BY HAND - IT WON'T WORK. INSTEAD, CREATE A NEW PAGE WITH THE {{SoC2010Idea}} template. |
Create an eclipse plugin for wesnoth UMC development
Page for the idea: SoC_Ideas_Eclipse_Plugin
We want to use the eclipse platform as the IDE to assist Wesnoth UMC (user-made-content) Development. To do that, we need to create an eclipse plugin which will allow to rapidly start UMC development and which will act as a frontend for existing wesnoth UMC development tools. To do so, we need to try to integrate existing solutions as much as possible.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Port Wesnoth input framework to a more flexible system
Page for the idea: SoC_Ideas_Gui2_Input
Since 2007, Wesnoth has been rewriting its GUI system with a more flexible system allowing all user interface aspect to be specified through WML. One of the changes has been to change the GUI input system. The input system still only support keyboard and mouse. With the rise of the more powerful hand-held devices(hand-held game consoles and phones) Wesnoth gets ported to these devices as well. The scope of this SoC project is to add more different kind of input devices like pads and touch screens.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Extend Wesnoth Lua AI Support
Page for the idea: SoC_Ideas_Lua_AI
Lua AI support was recently added to wesnoth. Expose c++ AI support functions that Wesnoth has, to Lua.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Rewrite wesnoth network stack using boost::asio
Page for the idea: SoC_Ideas_Network_Stack_Rewrite
Rewrite wesnoth network stack using boost::asio.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
New Alliance system
Page for the idea: SoC_Ideas_New_Alliance_System
Wesnoth currently has a very simple alliance system, players are either allied, neutral, or enemies. The idea is to replace this with a system of privilege granting. Each player can grant privileges to other players but can't force other to grant the corresponding privilege. Thus it's only through diplomacy and trust that you can build an alliance.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Page for the idea: SoC_Ideas_Persistent_Gameworld
Allow WML authors to store/access persistent data 'in context' of a specific campaign/add-on/group of addons/ group of games. This will allow things like 'achievements' or 'massive multiplayer campaigns' to work.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Allow wesnoth to support spritesheets
Page for the idea: SoC_Ideas_SpriteSheets
Wesnoth units are made of thousands of small png files, each containing the image of the unit in a given stance. This has the advantage of (arguably) being easier for artists. However this has a huge cost in term of memory usage. The point of this SoC would be to allow wesnoth to support spritesheets : huge images containing a mosaic of all images and related tools/code support
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
WML Debugging Support
Page for the idea: SoC_Ideas_WML_Debugging
Improve the ways to debug Wesnoth's domain-specific language, WML.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Make your own ideas
Page for the idea: SoC_Ideas_Your_Own_Ideas
If you have your own idea the best thing is to join IRC wesnoth-dev at irc.freenode.net and discuss the idea with the developers there. If the developers think your idea is interesting and like the feature you can start to turn it into a full proposal. Once done discuss it again on IRC so the developers can accept your idea.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Not submitted to google
There are 8 student proposals which were not submitted to google
titouu, titoou
Summer of Code Proposal by Titouu
Abion47
SummerOfCodeProposal Abion47
Iskander
SummerOfCodeProposal Alexander Vishnevskyi
SummerOfCodeProposal Anil Verma
ctrlfreak, ctrlfreak_
SummerOfCodeProposal ctrlfreak
Dakmor, Dakmor_, Dakmor_Z
SummerOfCodeProposal Dakmor
Hagaren
SummerOfCodeProposal Hagaren/
RandomDragon
SummerOfCodeProposal RandomDragon