Mozilla Developer Center
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Mozilla Developer Center (MDC), started in early 2005, is the official Mozilla Foundation
website
for development documentation and news about Firefox, Thunderbird
, and other Mozilla Foundation projects. It is intended to supplant the community-driven aspect of documents authored for the mozilla.org website. To accomplish this, the website uses wiki software to maintain user-editable documents rather than CVS
commits, as used for mozilla.org and determined to be too unwieldy shortly after MDC's inception.
The initial content for the website was provided by DevEdge, for which the Mozilla Foundation was granted a license by AOL
. Significant effort has been made to migrate content from mozilla.org. Many pages on mozilla.org now redirect to MDC. The site now contains a mix of content migrated from DevEdge and mozilla.org, as well as original and more up-to-date content.
The project was initially led by Mozilla Corporation
employee Deb Richardson, although it has been led by Eric Shepherd since 2006.
MDC is also informally called Devmo, short for developer.mozilla.org, the site's host name.
MDC has a newsgroup (mozilla.dev.mdc) and an IRC channel #devmo on the Mozilla IRC Network. MDC is funded by the Mozilla Foundation with servers and employees.
Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operates key infrastructure and controls trademarks and other intellectual property...
website
Website
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for development documentation and news about Firefox, Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser...
, and other Mozilla Foundation projects. It is intended to supplant the community-driven aspect of documents authored for the mozilla.org website. To accomplish this, the website uses wiki software to maintain user-editable documents rather than CVS
Concurrent Versions System
The Concurrent Versions System , also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is a client-server free software revision control system in the field of software development. Version control system software keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers ...
commits, as used for mozilla.org and determined to be too unwieldy shortly after MDC's inception.
The initial content for the website was provided by DevEdge, for which the Mozilla Foundation was granted a license by AOL
AOL
AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...
. Significant effort has been made to migrate content from mozilla.org. Many pages on mozilla.org now redirect to MDC. The site now contains a mix of content migrated from DevEdge and mozilla.org, as well as original and more up-to-date content.
The project was initially led by Mozilla Corporation
Mozilla Corporation
The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey Navigator web browsers and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client by a growing global community of...
employee Deb Richardson, although it has been led by Eric Shepherd since 2006.
MDC is also informally called Devmo, short for developer.mozilla.org, the site's host name.
MDC has a newsgroup (mozilla.dev.mdc) and an IRC channel #devmo on the Mozilla IRC Network. MDC is funded by the Mozilla Foundation with servers and employees.