GSoC 2012 Ideas

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Sprint Ideas

"All Hands" Tasks (good for beginners)

port Lingua to run also on Python 3: https://github.com/wichert/lingua
Create a site which showcases existing Pyramid/Pylons-powered websites.
edit and reorganize cookbook at https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_cookbook
Debug toolbar screencast
Pyramid tutorial screencast
Do a tutorial walk-thru and identify hard to follow parts and make fixes
Add better docs about how Python packages relate to Python modules.
SEO optimization for Pyramid docs
Content population for http://pyramid.opencomparison.org/
some kind of interactive shell for pyramid kinda like http://try.redis-db.com/
Figure out how to test Pyramid on Google App Engine beta (2.7)

Focused tasks (require specific knowledge or context)

Add pyramid_simpleform-like capabilities to Deform.
X-platform (Win/UNIX/py2/py3/pypy) session storage
Make it easier to debug i18n problems
Fix tox to cope with the ability to test distributions that have namespace package dependencies (e..g. "transaction").
allow better extension support for debugtoolbar
web-enabled interactive debugger ala pdb as toolbar extension (pie in sky)
pretty up debugger toolbar
add warning messages to old versions of documentation and link to latest release
factor mako and chameleon templating bindings into external packages (Carlos and Reed did some of this at PyCon 2012).
pycco style tutorial
refactor zilch (use debugtoolbar exc collecting instead of weberror), and more flexible storage/result interface, more 'deployable-ready' with pyramid apps
extensible pyramid dashboard app for apps needing an admin UI (error reporters, cache viewers, job runners, etc.)
generate colander/deform schemas from sqlalchemy models (admin interface) https://github.com/Themanwithoutaplan/pyramid_debugtoolbar/wiki/Generate-colander-deform-schemas-from-sqlalchemy-models-(admin-interface)
debugtoolbar bug fixing

Real-time web tasks

Refactor pyramid_socketio to work with the latest gevent-socketio
Unit tests to pyramid_socketio
Selenium tests for the pyramid_socketio demos
Tutorials and Screencasts with pyramid_socketio