gnusocial
Check the programme page to learn more about the programme and on how to apply.
GNU social is a social communication software used in federated social networks. It is widely supported and has a large userbase.
If you would like to know how is it like to be a GSoC student at GNU social, read this blog post!
We no longer participate in Google Summer of Code since 2021. In 2020 we've had a successful student supported by The Freaks Club, you can reach thndrbvr and try your luck, or look for another sponsor. Otherwise, there will be no stipend.
Below is a list of ideas you can work on this Summer at GNU social. You should pick one (or mix a couple) of them and talk on IRC about it. The community will help you understanding what has to be done so you can put a good proposal together.
Description: Our current forms have their controller embedded in the UI construction.
Outcomes: Processing on dedicated controller, splitting logic from UI.
Skills required: PHP
Skills preferred: Twig
Mentors: Hugo Sales, Eliseu Amaro
Difficulty: Hard
Workload: 350h
Description: - Add XMPP Notifications queue; - Add reply to note via XMPP; - and Add XMPP chat.
Outcomes: This would be a port of the v2 XMPP plugin with improved functionality.
Skills required: PHP, XMPP
Mentors: Diogo Cordeiro, Alexey Sorokin, Joshua Judson Rosen
Difficulty: Hard
Workload: 350h
Description: We have a custom cache system which is not understood by Symfony. Improve our autoloader so it can be configurable instead of just loading everything.
Outcomes: Symfony profiler can give useful information concerning cache. Decide which plugins should be loaded on runtime; Replace components with local ones; Replace templates with local ones.
Skills required: PHP
Mentors: Hugo Sales, Diogo Cordeiro
Difficulty: Hard
Workload: 350h
Description: Pure HTML + CSS solutions for Image-related manipulation
Outcomes: Provide an easy Twig macro interface for image manipulation, this includes: cropping images without requiring client side JS; adding annotations to images; and a plugin to have a XMP interface background animaton using SVGs.
Skills required: CSS2.2, PHP
Skills preferred: Twig
Mentors: Eliseu Amaro
Difficulty: Medium
Workload: 350h
Description: Restore that nostalgic and old-fashioned UI.
Outcomes: Have a heartwarmed community finding you wholesome.
Skills required: Semantic HTML, CSS2.2, Orca
Mentors: Eliseu Amaro
Difficulty: Medium
Workload: 350h
Description: Create unit tests for components and plugins.
Outcomes: Review the whole unfully tested codebase.
Skills required: PHP, PHPUnit
Mentors: Hugo Sales, Diogo Cordeiro, Eliseu Amaro
Difficulty: Medium
Workload: 350h
Description: Restore these functionalities that were available in v2.
Outcomes: The user can set a url shortner, create events, and create polls.
Skills required: PHP, CSS2.2, HTML
Mentors: Diogo Cordeiro, Eliseu Amaro
Difficulty: Medium
Workload: 350h