This list is by no means complete, we're still getting our mentors lined up for this program and are waiting for confirmation to be a mentoring org before setting up all the 3rd party projects that have been a bulk of our students in past years GSoC/GHOP.
Code
http://bugs.python.org/issue9517 improve test.script_helper [median] (stdlib)
- Eliminate resource warnings in test_subprocess [expert] (stdlib)
http://bugs.python.org/issue9856 add a deprecation warning to object.format(s) when s is non-empty [median] (c)
http://bugs.python.org/issue9858 Bring Python and C io library implementations in sync [expert] (stdlib)
http://bugs.python.org/issue940286 Fix pydoc.Helper.help() to use the input output parameters [novice] (stdlib)
- Merge test_globals into test_scope [novice] (stdlib)
- Improve the test coverage of imaplib. [median] (stdlib)
- Merge test_smtpnet into test_smtplib. [novice] (stdlib)
- Adapt test_stringprep to download the data file to test its module against.
- Write tests for getpass.py. [median] (stdlib)
- Write tests for tabnanny.py. You may need to extend the api to make it more testable. [median] (stdlib)
- Write tests for formatter.py. [median] (stdlib)
- Add tests for the code module. [median] (stdlib)
- Add tests for cgitb.py. [median] (stdlib)
- Refactor Distutils2 command line tools so it uses argparse [median] (packaging)
- Refactor test_zipfile to properly clean up its resources in a nice way [median] (stdlib)
Documentation
- Complete documentation for the wsgiref module [median] (stdlib, wsgi)
Write docs for undocumented urllib functions (http://bugs.python.org/issue1722) [median] (stdlib)
Outreach
- Write an article about the advantages of Python 3 over 2.x [novice]
Quality Assurance
- Clean up Distutils2 code using "pep8" and "pyflake" (or "flake8") [novice] (packaging)
Research
- Find all Django dependencies that still need to be ported to Python 3 [expert] (wsgi)
- Find all Turbogears dependencies that still need to be ported to Python 3 [median] (wsgi)
Training
Translation
User Interface
- Enhance the Distutils2 mkcfg wizard (script to create a Distutils2 package) [median] (packaging)
Adding new tasks
Add new tasks only in the above 8 categories.
Within each category tasks should sorted by experience level:
- Novice - these tasks can be done by someone with no experience working with the project
- Median - these tasks are suitable for someone with some experience in a project
- Expert - these tasks require knowledge in a specific field or extreme familiarity with a project
Task ideas should be tagged with the subproject they should be mentored for, currently:
- stdlib - Python's Standard Library
- packaging - The distutils (stdlib) or distutils2 projects
- wsgi - Web Service Gateway Interface and related packages