GSoC2013

GSoC2013 Codex Home → GSoC2013 Table of contents Introduction Timeline Ideas Mentors Introduction bbPress is a fully-integrated forum plugin for the popular WordPress web software. It provides forum functionality for over a few hundred thousand WordPress sites, and is most popular for powering the WordPress.com and WordPress.org support sections. Google Summer of Code is a program in which Google sponsors exceptional college students to develop open source code under the guidance of mentoring open source projects. This year, bbPress is hoping to be a mentoring organisation. If you know you want to propose a GSoC project around bbPress, but aren’t sure what you want to do, check out our Ideas list below. If you have your own idea for a project, include it in your application and describe it thoroughly. You are not limited to ideas from this list. Timeline March 18, 19:00 UTC: Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google. March 29, 19:00 UTC: Mentoring organization application deadline. April 1 – 5: Google program administrators review organization applications. April 8 19:00 UTC: List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2013 site. April 9 – 21: Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations. April 22, 19:00 UTC: Student application period opens. May 3, 19:00 UTC: Student application deadline. Ideas Quick Edit forums and topics on dashboard https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1394 Provide Quick Edit functionality for forums and topics. Admin Bar Support https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1439 Add admin bar UI and improve code for marking a user as Spam. Akismet admin UI https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1616 Finishing up the API for and building the bbPress/Akismet admin UI to display the spam history and Akismet results. Bulk actions for forums https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1723 Provide Bulk Actions for forums, such as marking topics as closed/spam/etc. Moderator control panels https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1721 Create a /moderate section for moderators to use without needing to visit the wp-admin area. Direct login and register links to bbpress login or register page templates https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1756 Create direct login and register pages, and/or a sidebar Widget, for bbPress users to avoid sending them to wp-login.php. Very long load times when posting replies if topic has many subscribers https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2162 Create a mail queue on wp\_cron to avoid long loads when a new reply is posted to a topic with many subscribers. Auto refreshing new replies https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1907 AJAX all of the things! User signatures/sigfiles (No ticket yet.) Mentors John James Jacoby, jjj bbPress Lead Developer. Interested in projects around BuddyPress and bbPress. Jennifer M. Dodd, jmdodd bbPress Core Contributor. Interested in improving moderator experience and capabilities and adding popular user-requested functionality. Daniel Dvorkin, MZAWeb bbPress Contributor. Interested mostly in performance, AJAXifing all the things and security, but always open to fun challenges.