Development/Summer of Code/2015
Mentors
This year Robert Kaye, Ian McEwen and Michael Wiencek will probably be amongst our mentors. That's ruaok (Robert), ianmcorvidae (Ian) and bitmap (Michael) on IRC, if you want to come and speak to us first. Some potential mentors are listed by each project; this is far from a normative list, but it might give you somebody to ask about the project.
Suggestions
This is our set of starting ideas for 2015. Add more ideas if you have them!
Add in site messaging in MusicBrainz
See: MBS-1801
Proper implementation of AreaBot
Proposed mentor: nikki
Re-write area bot to be robust and stable
Finish implementation of SOLR Search
Proposed mentor: ianmcorvidae
Proposed student: mineo
Moderation interface for CritiqueBrainz
We have a system for reporting spam in CritiqueBrainz, but no good interface to act on reports that come in from it. It would be great to have a friendly UI for moderation tasks like this.
There are a lot of other useful things that can be done with CritiqueBrainz. Some people request support for more MusicBrainz entity types to review. There are a lot of untouched tickets in the bug tracker which can be fixed as a part of this project. Or you can come up with your own idea!
About proposals
Before you dive in and send a proposal to us through Google, it's a good idea to take some time and learn about the MusicBrainz community. At MusicBrainz we pride ourselves for having a strong community - most of us know each other in some way, and some of us know each other face to face from development summits.
A good way to get a feel of this would be to lurk around in IRC, or to talk about your proposals on the mailing lists.
If you're not sure where to start, Development/Summer of Code/Getting started might help.