Development Projects
We need volunteers to help with software testing and development. If you have one or more of the relevant technical skills (C++ system programming, PHP/MySQL Web development, wxWidgets programming, autoconf/automake expertise, etc.) you may be able to help us maintain and enhance BOINC.
The University of California holds the copyright on all BOINC source code. By submitting contributions to the BOINC code, you irrevocably assign all right, title, and interest, including copyright and all copyright rights, in such contributions to The Regents of the University of California, who may then use the code for any purpose that it desires.
To get started, read about the BOINC software development process. Find a small bug fix or enhancement to do (look at the BOINC bug database, the email lists, or message boards for ideas). Look at the source code and think about how you would implement it. Then communicate with the area owner, sketching what you want to do and how. Work with the the area owner to carry out and check in the work.
The following development projects are available:
Web features
(Requires advanced knowledge of PHP and MySQL)
Easy
- #598
- Change whole-page caching to data caching
Medium
- #605
- Add a mechanism where joining a team or group requires approval of an admin.
Difficult / complex
- #607
- Unify preferences
Uncategorized
- #392
- Interactive editor for BBCode
- #595
- Use CSS instead of HTML for formatting
- #600
- Convert PHP code to use the new database abstraction layer.
- #601
- Combine user page and profile.
- #602
- Change the ops / web pages to require login by a user with admin privileges
- #604
- Convert team name HTML and team description to BBcode.
- #606
- Groups (sub-teams)
- #608
- Propagate profiles between projects
- #609
- Add new profile features
- #610
- Team customisation features
- #754
- Ability to see / reset to default (project) prefs
- #907
- Drupal integration
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Applications
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Core client
(Requires advanced C++ system programming experience)
- #153
- Make available to translate message strings into "Messages" tab.
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BOINC Manager
(Requires experience with WxWidgets GUI toolkit)
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Server/Back End
(Requires advanced C++/Unix system programming experience)
- #917
- Associate results with app version
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Please check with area owner or David Anderson before undertaking any of these.
