This is a list of tasks that the Channels project needs doing that comes under the remit of Django's MOSS grant; anything on this page is eligible for funding via the grant with '''pre-approval''' from the Django MOSS committee; you'll get in touch with the committee, discuss the work and your history with open-source contribution (we strongly prefer that you have a proven track record on at least a few things) and the amount you'd like to be paid.

If you're interested in working on one of these tasks, get in touch with Andrew Godwin <andrew@aeracode.org> as a first point of contact; he can help talk you through what's involved, and help judge/refine your proposal before it goes to the committee.

Tasks not on the list can also be proposed; Andrew can help talk about them and if they would be sensible to do. Any work on Django, Daphne, asgiref or asgi_redis is eligible.

== Tasks ==

High prority:

* Full test suite for Daphne HTTP/WS encoding to ASGI
* Tests for runserver and runworker
* Tests for file and streaming response handling inside Django

Medium priority:
* Additional tutorials (written or video)
* Scheduled task/delay interface server (https://github.com/andrewgodwin/channels/issues/115)
* Automated load testing setup and runner based on AWS/Azure/etc (https://github.com/andrewgodwin/channels/issues/28)
* In-page debugging help for websocket consumers (ideas and implementation needed)

Low priority:

* HTTP/2 support for Daphne (based on upcoming Twisted HTTP/2 support) (https://github.com/andrewgodwin/channels/issues/14)
* Messaging (IRC/Slack/etc.) interface server and ASGI spec extension
* Email interface server and ASGI spec extension
* Port Daphne to run on asyncio or write a second ASGI HTTP/WS interface server on it


== Completed Tasks ==

These have already been done and paid for:

* Write specification for channel layer backends (ASGI)
* Write reference memory-only backend
* Write test ORM-driven backend
* Write production-ready Redis backend
* Write conformance test suite for specification
* Write ASGI-compatible HTTP + WebSocket mixed-mode server
* Write WebSocket benchmark suite
* ASGIRequest subclass and decoding from ASGI
* Response encoding to ASGI
* ASGI-compatible Handler and path into view layer
* Streaming and file response support
* HTTP authentication support
* Sessions based on reply channel not cookies
* Channel session authentication support
* Runserver integration with Daphne (inc. autoreload)
* Routing system for channels similar to URLs
* runworker command for running workers in production
* Optional in-order enforcement for WebSocket consumers
* Tutorial documentation
* Deployment/Scaling documentation
* Reference/Concepts documentation
* Example projects (channels-examples)
* Generic WebSocket and base consumers