Here are some ideas for 2009 Google Summer of Code student
projects. The focus of this page is things that are largish,
well-defined and self-contained enough to propose as a student
project.

Project ideas
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Active ideas
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An active idea is one for which we have some interested students or
mentors lined up


-  hashed-storage spin-off
-  2009-02-13 : `PetrRockai <PetrRockai>`_ as potential student

-  GUI support.
-  `GraphicalInterface <GraphicalInterface>`_ - general GUI, maybe
   subsuming patch viewer
-  `PatchViewer <PatchViewer>`_ - more specific to seeing
   relationship between patches (and branches)
-  `http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/17 <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/17>`_
   [mentors and possible students available!]


Other performance projects
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-  Performance: darcs annotate
-  `issue984 <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue984>`_
-  filecache: Keeping track of which patches affect which files, to
   speed up query operations that affect only certain files (e.g.
   changes, diff, etc, when given a filename argument).
-  2009-12 status: Benedikt S. was working on this for darcs
   hacking sprint #1 - what's up?

-  Performance: low-level stuff
-  `issue1007 <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1007>`_ - Use
   Data.`ByteString <ByteString>`_.Lazy for better performance
-  2009-02: `PetrRockai <PetrRockai>`_ says that this is
   (partially?) met by his hashed storage work. Any other places we
   need this?
-  2008-08: we now have bytestrings... we just need lazy ones

-  Performance: optimised patch types
-  `issue1009 <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1009>`_ Develop a new
   binary patch type that is more efficient in space and time. Again,
   requires some sort of benchmarking.
-  `issue1357 <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1357>`_ chunky hunks
-  2008-08: still open


Other new feature or tool projects
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-  Cool new patch types
-  `issue1107 <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1107>`_ Add support for a
   character-based hunk patch type. May require tuning of the LCS
   algorithm, if we want this to work for large files.
-  Other interesting new patch types.
-  2008-06: still open and untouched

-  Git backend support? See `DarcsGit <DarcsGit>`_
-  2008-06: still open
-  2009-02: note that we now have a sort of darcslib which could
   make this easier

-  Improvements to darcs convert
-  `issue1360 <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1360>`_ darcs convert
   --use-reference : allow darcs convert on branches, maybe using a
   'reference' repository to keep things safe
-  2009-02: opened


Students
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-  `PetrRockai <PetrRockai>`_

Mentors
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-  `EricKow <EricKow>`_ (I may not be the best person for this job
   - help wanted!)
-  Shelarcy (GraphicalInterface)
-  maybe `WolfgangJeltsch <WolfgangJeltsch>`_ (GraphicalInterface,
   `PatchViewer <PatchViewer>`_)

See also
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-  `HOWTO: Write a Summer of Code application <http://drupal.org/node/59037>`_
   - from the Drupal folks
-  /!\\ cleanup request -
   `http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1008 <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1008>`_

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