SummerOfCodeIdeas
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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 (Make a copy of the student proposal page template: SoC2011_Template_of_Student_page):
- 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 svn and afterwards compile Wesnoth svn.
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 2011 Idea category. DO NOT TRY TO EDIT THIS LIST BY HAND - IT WON'T WORK. INSTEAD, CREATE A NEW PAGE WITH THE following template: SoC_Ideas2011_Template. |
| NOTE: to add a student page, create a new page based on copy the student proposal page template: SoC2011_Template_of_Student_page): |
Enhance & polish the Wesnoth Eclipse Plugin
More info at SoC_Ideas_Eclipse_Plugin2011
A java-based Eclipse plugin was created in 2010 to allow easier creation and modification of User-Made Content for Wesnoth. You should extend this work and polish existing features in terms of usability and performance, and add new features.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Extend Wesnoth's Lua AI support and improve Wesnoth's AI
More info at SoC_Ideas_LuaAI_2011
It is very important for Wesnoth to have a way of scripting AI without modifying the c++ source code. Some time ago, it was possible to use Python to code AIs, but it was removed due to security issues. Now, we have added Lua as a new way to script AI. The core capabilities were already added, but we need to integrate Lua AI scripts better.
Wesnoth AI consists of different components. Each component is a c++ object, which provides an interface to allow the ai to delegate part of the turn sequence to that c++ object. But, that c++ object can be a proxy for code written in different language, such as formula_ai or lua. So, we have a lua engine - a c++ class which is responsible with creating c++ proxies for lua code snippets. This lua engine must provide access to all the information that the c++ AI knows - caches like 'attacks' and 'possible moves', values of aspects such as 'aggression' and 'caution', etc. So, there's a large number of AI support functions which we need to expose to lua code.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Reengineer Wesnoth's multiplayer engine
More info at SoC_Ideas_Multiplayer_Improvements_2011
Wesnoth includes a lot of multiplayer content, like 'standard' scenarios, custom scenarios and multiplayer campaigns. However, when creating a multiplayer game, the player's options are highly limited - for example, it is not possible to select the difficulty level before starting the scenario, and it is not possible to allow the scenario to set what 'variables' can be customized by players before game is started (there's only global 'use map settings' flag and some control over sides). We want to reengineer the architecture of Wesnoth's multiplayer engine to allow it to support those things.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Add WML Schema Validation to Wesnoth
More info at SoC_Ideas_Schema_Validation2011
Wesnoth supports a special language called WML ('Wesnoth markup language' ). To make it easier to check if a WML is correct, we want to add the support for WML schemas (descriptions of all possible tags and elements and a way to check if given WML file is correct according to schema) to Wesnoth.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Create a simple content manager frontend for non-technical users
More info at SoC_Ideas_Simple_Content_Manager
Wesnoth has all sorts of contributors that are not coders (translators, graphists, multiplayer developers, musicians, etc)
A large part of these users don't know how to use content managers (git, svn, etc...) and are not interested in learning. Wesnoth has been looking for a simple frontend to the most common content managers for those developers but none of these are simple enough for our use case.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Allow wesnoth to support spritesheets
Page for the idea: SoC_Ideas_Sprite_Sheets2011
Currently, all the Wesnoth unit animations are based on thousands of small png images, each image representing the unit in a single pose. For terrains the situation is the same, it has a base image with a lot of transitions to other terrains, which are now stored as seperate images.
In a sprite sheet approach, each unit is represented by a single, huge, image where all the unit images are put on a mosaïc pattern and the game knows where to look for a given image.
The advantage of having a large image with all positions is that it's more efficient in memory. Also one large file is more effecient on the harddisk and faster to load than a lot of smaller files. So the change to spritesheets will have a lot of advantages.
Regarding the implementation the student is free to come up with his/her own solution and discuss that with the developers during the application period.
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Improve Wesnoth's Whiteboard
More info at SoC_Ideas_Whiteboard_2011
A whiteboard planning UI was implemented last year for GSoC
This years project would be to continue the work by polishing what was done last year and making it network aware so allies can see each other's plan
There are no submitted student proposals for this idea
Make your own ideas
Page for the idea: SoC_Ideas_Your_Own_Ideas2011
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
Student proposals not submitted to google
There are 3 student proposals which were not submitted to google
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MGoods
SummerOfCodeProposal LuaAI Improvement Nephro
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