View source for Improve and extend the archive Web UI (GSoC task)

== Introduction ==

As you probably know already, The Software Heritage archive can be
[https://archive.softwareheritage.org browsed on the Web]. The
[https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-web/ code] powering that
interface is a Django application that also implements a
[https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/ Web API].

== Task description ==

Several improvements are possible on the archive Web interface and would make
great GSoC projects, some ideas to whet your appetite:

* add developer-oriented features, e.g., source file history, blame/praise interface, in-browser edit (with patch download), ... (note that this will also require backend design and implementation)
* improve [https://www.w3.org/WAI/ accessibility]
* display metadata we already mined from the archive

=== Expected duration ===

* if you choose the developer-oriented features: 350 hours. Difficulty: hard
* for others mentioned above: 175 hours. Difficulty: easy

== Desirable skills ==

* Python 3 and Git are a must to work on any Software Heritage project
* Django
* web development and/or design
* Javascript knowledge is useful but not required

== Potential mentors ==

* Antoine Lambert (anlambert on [[IRC]])
* Valentin Lorentz (vlorentz on [[IRC]])
* Jayesh Velayudhan (jayeshv on [[IRC]])

== Other relevant (but independent) tasks ==

[[Improve project search engine (GSoC task)]] is an independent task,
which may or may not involve improvements to the Web UI, depending on
you tastes.

While this task can be about displaying metadata we already mined,
you may also be interested in [[Mine information from archived content (GSoC task)]]
and [[Mine information from external sources (GSoC task)]] to mine more
of this metadata; but those are completely independent tasks.

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