Google-CodeIn/Proposed Tasks
Proposed tasks for Google Code In 2018.
Getting started
- Discover the project (https://world.openfoodfacts.org/discover) and how to contribute (https://world.openfoodfacts.org/contribute)
- Join Open Food Facts on Slack: register on https://slack.openfoodfacts.org
- Star the Open Food Facts repositories of your choice (Server, API, Android and iOS apps) on Github: https://github.com/openfoodfacts
- Read the contributing guidelines https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-androidapp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
- Read the setup guidelines and get your project onto the local machine https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-androidapp/blob/master/SETUP_GUIDELINES.md
Tasks
Documentation/Training Tasks
- Help documenting the WRITE API for Open Food Facts
- Document any five classes in the Android Application
Success criteria: Merged pull Request
- Document any ten classes in the Android Application
Success criteria: Merged pull Request
- Fix 5 coding violations
Success criteria: Merged pull Request
- Fix 10 coding violations
Success criteria: Merged pull Request
Outreach / Research Tasks
These tasks are good tasks for getting to know the Open Food Facts project and understand how it works. It is useful to complete some of them before starting other tasks like documentation, design and coding.
- Add 10 products to Open Food Facts
- Install the Android or iOS Open Food Facts app, scan some food products, and upload pictures of the ingredients and nutrition facts table
- Complete the product pages of 10 incomplete products on Open Food Facts
- Create an account on https://world.openfoodfacts.org and go to the incomplete product page https://world.openfoodfacts.org/state/to-be-completed to edit some products.
- Help translate the Open Food Facts app in your language
- Research and give 2 new ways by which Open Food Facts can get new contributors
- Write a blog post about how Open Food Facts is working to help the users make a good decision about food
- Write a blog post about why people should contribute to Open Food Facts
- Write a blog post about your experience with Open Food Facts
Design Tasks
- Generate at least 5 ideas on how new design elements can improve the android app
- Create a introduction slide for Category Search
- Create a introduction slide for History
- Create a introduction slide for Your Contributions
- Create a introduction slide for Products to be completed
- Add at least 5 meaningful transitions and animations in the android application
Coding Tasks
Your preferred language tasks :-)
- Create an app or web site that re-uses the Open Food Facts data in any way you like, with the language and technology of your choice
- See https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data to get the data
- If you want to build a mobile app, you can use the open source code of our iOS and Android apps to get started
Java tasks
https://github.com/openfoodfacts/OpenFoodFacts-androidApp/issues?page=2&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen
- Fix 5 linting issues from different types
Perl tasks
https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server
- Fix any bug of the Open Food Facts server
- Pick any issue you like, or start with the issues tagged with the "5 minutes fix" label: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/labels/5%20minute%20fix
- Calculate Alcohol units in wines and beers https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/issues/241
- Add updated contribution links for logged-in contributors >> https://github.com/openfoodfacts/OpenFoodFacts-androidApp/issues/159
- Add option to return the JSON files in ingredients.pl https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/issues/532
- Create an API method to give a company using the GS1 manufacturer code included in the barcode https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/issues/508
- Create a fix for the Wiki SSO username display bug https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/issues/476
PHP API tasks
https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-php
- Create a WRITE call for nutrition data
- Create WRITE calls for product facets
- Create WRITE calls for image addition
- Create WRITE calls for image manipulation
- Create READ calls for OCR JSONs
Translation tasks
https://translate.openfoodfacts.org
- Help translate the Open Food Facts server in your language
- Help translate the Open Food Facts app in your language
- Proofread english strings for mistakes
Python API tasks
https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-python
- Create a WRITE call for nutrition data
- Create WRITE calls for product facets
- Create WRITE calls for image addition
- Create WRITE calls for image manipulation
- Create READ calls for OCR Jsons
- See Student projects for larger tasks / Google Summer of Code
- See Student projects/School for School sized projects