This week’s Assignment: Each of you shall pick a random and actively developed FLOSS project and lookup it’s bug tracking system and choose a bug that has been reported at least a week before and fix it and submit a patch.
This semester’s project: Each of you shall pick a random, at least 2 years old and actively developed FLOSS project; you are required to E-mail the lead developers inquiring about their future huge milestones, then you shall study the milestones and build an implementation/design plan for the nearest milestone and E-mail the developers back with your ideas; if your design was accepted then you shall start right away with the implementation. In case your design was not accepted, fork the project with your own implementation plan in mind.