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## Goal
-The X.org board treats GSoC as an opportunity to teach new developers rather than a chance to get a pile of free code. With this perspective, if, in two months, the student actually has learned how to contribute to X Window System, that's a huge step forward. Creating a project which guides this process with a maximal chance of success is the only tricky part.
+The X.org board treats GSoC as an opportunity to teach new developers rather than a chance to get a pile of free code. With this perspective, if, in two months, the student actually has learned how to contribute to X Window System, that's a huge step forward. Creating a project which guides this process with a maximal chance of success is the only tricky part.
## Ideas
-Ideas for projects for students looking to participate in Google's Summer of Code. Please note that these are just suggestions; if you have an idea for something else please ask.
+Ideas for projects for students looking to participate in Google's Summer of Code. Please note that these are just suggestions; if you have an idea for something else please ask.
-When writing a proposal, please remember to make it detailed. Include at least the information called for in "[[What should a student application look like?|http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60306&topic=10727]]", but including milestones and a project schedule is even better. See [[X.Org-GSoC2008-Application|X.Org-GSoC2008-Application]] for guidelines.
+When writing a proposal, please remember to make it detailed. Include at least the information called for in "[[What should a student application look like?|http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60306&topic=10727]]", but including milestones and a project schedule is even better. See [[X.Org-GSoC2008-Application|X.Org-GSoC2008-Application]] for guidelines.
### Xserver core
-* Move the dmx muxing code into the server to replace the existing xinerama mux code
-* EXA support for surfaces larger than the hardware limits
-* Infrastructure for direct-rendering GL windows larger than the hardware supports
-* Investigate redoing miarc/miwideline/etc. for smaller size and better performance
+* Move the dmx muxing code into the server to replace the existing xinerama mux code
+* EXA support for surfaces larger than the hardware limits
+* Infrastructure for direct-rendering GL windows larger than the hardware supports
+* Investigate redoing miarc/miwideline/etc. for smaller size and better performance
### Xinerama
-* Composite/Xinerama integration
-* Hotplugging additional local and remote displays
-* Auto enabling and disabling Xinerama screens.
-* Make Xinerama handle more than just X screens
+* Composite/Xinerama integration
+* Hotplugging additional local and remote displays
+* Auto enabling and disabling Xinerama screens.
+* Make Xinerama handle more than just X screens
### Xdmx
- * Integrate with the rootless code a la Xdarwin and Cygwin/X, for floating window migration
- * Add support for Fixes/Damage/Composite
- * Fix input
+* Integrate with the rootless code a la Xdarwin and Cygwin/X, for floating window migration
+* Add support for Fixes/Damage/Composite
+* Fix input
### XCB
- * Auto-generate server-side protocol stubs from XCB's protocol descriptions
- * Implement a new language binding for XCB
- * Finishing the Haskell language binding would be really cool.
- * Implement a more complete test suite for XCB
- * Port Gdk and/or Qt to XCB
- * Port the important X utilities (xdpyinfo, xhost, etc.) to XCB
- * The [[XCB demos|http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xcb;a=tree;f=xcb-demo]] include partial ports of xdpyinfo and xrandr.
- * You'd have to port a lot of applications to make this an interesting Summer of Code project.
- * See [[XCBToDo|http://xcb.freedesktop.org/XCBToDo]] and Bugzilla(XCB) for more ideas, or contact [[jamey@minilop.net|mailto:jamey@minilop.net]] or [[xcb@lists.freedesktop.org|mailto:xcb@lists.freedesktop.org]].
+* Auto-generate server-side protocol stubs from XCB's protocol descriptions
+* Implement a new language binding for XCB
+ * Finishing the Haskell language binding would be really cool.
+* Implement a more complete test suite for XCB
+* Port Gdk and/or Qt to XCB
+* Port the important X utilities (xdpyinfo, xhost, etc.) to XCB
+ * The [[XCB demos|http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xcb;a=tree;f=xcb-demo]] include partial ports of xdpyinfo and xrandr.
+ * You'd have to port a lot of applications to make this an interesting Summer of Code project.
+* See [[XCBToDo|http://xcb.freedesktop.org/XCBToDo]] and Bugzilla(XCB) for more ideas, or contact [[jamey@minilop.net|mailto:jamey@minilop.net]] or [[xcb@lists.freedesktop.org|mailto:xcb@lists.freedesktop.org]].
### Xau/Xdmcp
- * Implement the XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2 authentification protocol for better IPv6/XDM support. (See [[Bug 277|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277]] and the never-adopted draft of the XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2 changes to the XDMCP protocol spec.)
- * Replace the old/uncompiliable KERBEROS-5 authentication with GSS-API authentication.
+* Implement the XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2 authentification protocol for better IPv6/XDM support. (See [[Bug 277|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277]] and the never-adopted draft of the XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2 changes to the XDMCP protocol spec.)
+* Replace the old/uncompiliable KERBEROS-5 authentication with GSS-API authentication.
### Drivers
- * Add more support for EXA in the drivers; see [[ExaStatus|ExaStatus]] for a list.
- * Add dualhead support to an unsupported chip (trident, mach64, s3virge, [[nv|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5190]], etc.)
- * Add basic DRI support to an unsupported chip (trident, s3virge, glint, siliconmotion, etc.)
- * Do some work on [[nouveau|http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/]] ; ideas include adding 3D support for more cards, better Xv/XvMC support through gallium, suspend/resume support, (see our [[TODO page|http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo]] for more ideas)
- * More DRI-related ideas are visible on [[http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/GSoC_2008|http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/GSoC_2008]]
+* Add more support for EXA in the drivers; see [[ExaStatus|ExaStatus]] for a list.
+* Add dualhead support to an unsupported chip (trident, mach64, s3virge, [[nv|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5190]], etc.)
+* Add basic DRI support to an unsupported chip (trident, s3virge, glint, siliconmotion, etc.)
+* Do some work on [[nouveau|http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/]] ; ideas include adding 3D support for more cards, better Xv/XvMC support through gallium, suspend/resume support, (see our [[TODO page|http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo]] for more ideas)
+* More DRI-related ideas are visible on [[http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/GSoC_2008|http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/GSoC_2008]]
### XQuartz (OSX)
-Some of these might require changes to libXplugin (proprietary Apple code), but Apple is more than willing to provide the needed hooks. Just join the [[xquartz-dev mailing list|http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/MailingLists]]
-
- * New extension support
- * RandR
- * Composite
- * Fix OpenGL support
- * Switch to XF86DRI instead of AppleDRI
- * Write a Mesa DRI driver that uses OpenGL.framework
- * Top-Of-Tree syncing
- * input model, keymapping needs to be reworked
- * Copy/Paste proxying between OS-X and X11
- * Eliminate the need for AppleWM extension to allow other WMs to work better
- * Handle exposé / spaces events inside the X server rather than quartz-wm (so other WMs can be used)
- * Compositing window manager to replace quartz-wm (once Composite is enabled)
+Some of these might require changes to libXplugin (proprietary Apple code), but Apple is more than willing to provide the needed hooks. Just join the [[xquartz-dev mailing list|http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/MailingLists]]
+
+* New extension support
+ * RandR
+ * Composite
+* Fix OpenGL support
+ * Switch to XF86DRI instead of AppleDRI
+ * Write a Mesa DRI driver that uses OpenGL.framework
+* Top-Of-Tree syncing
+ * input model, keymapping needs to be reworked
+* Copy/Paste proxying between OS-X and X11
+* Eliminate the need for AppleWM extension to allow other WMs to work better
+* Handle exposé / spaces events inside the X server rather than quartz-wm (so other WMs can be used)
+* Compositing window manager to replace quartz-wm (once Composite is enabled)
### Misc
-* Add test cases for more extensions, especially newer ones like Render, Composite, etc. (possibly to XTS5; see [[TestGroup|TestGroup]] wiki)
-* Introspection extension to support tools like xscope
- * Would allow querying for request names and structures in generic fashion
- * Look at xcb-proto descriptions
-* Integrate NX in XCB or X protocol
-* Create GUI or textual tool for assisted editing of XKB configuration database.
-* Formally documenting XKB configuration syntax and configuration database structure.
+* Add test cases for more extensions, especially newer ones like Render, Composite, etc. (possibly to XTS5; see [[TestGroup|TestGroup]] wiki)
+* Introspection extension to support tools like xscope
+ * Would allow querying for request names and structures in generic fashion
+ * Look at xcb-proto descriptions
+* Integrate NX in XCB or X protocol
+* Create GUI or textual tool for assisted editing of XKB configuration database.
+* Formally documenting XKB configuration syntax and configuration database structure.
### DRI
- * GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
- * Update to latest spec
- * More efficient implementation, ideally texturing directly from offscreen pixmaps
- * Integrate properly with Composite, in particular, render to redirected windows correctly
- * Port new memory manager changes to drivers other than i915
- * make the X server's Xsync extension use DRM vblank waits or signals (really a DRI/X cross project)
- * rough patch is already available
- * developer would get good exposure to server and DRM internals
-See also: [[ToDo|ToDo]], [[Releases/7.4|Releases/7.4]], [[DRI ideas list|http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/SummerOfCode]].
+* GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
+ * Update to latest spec
+ * More efficient implementation, ideally texturing directly from offscreen pixmaps
+* Integrate properly with Composite, in particular, render to redirected windows correctly
+* Port new memory manager changes to drivers other than i915
+* make the X server's Xsync extension use DRM vblank waits or signals (really a DRI/X cross project)
+ * rough patch is already available
+ * developer would get good exposure to server and DRM internals
+
+See also: [[ToDo|ToDo]], [[Releases/7.4|Releases/7.4]], [[DRI ideas list|http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/SummerOfCode]].