TheMozillaProject (Mozilla dot org) is an
OpenSource programming effort set up by Netscape Communications to coordinate work on
NetscapeCommunicator 5, which was released under the
NetscapePublicLicense on March 31st, 1998. This codebase was rejected and a new suite, codenamed "Seamonkey" was written. In order to develop Seamonkey, the project invented
MozillaXul and
XpCom (as well as creating the Netscape Portable Runtime Library and many other things). The Seamonkey suite is now being retired in favour of the separate
MozillaFirefox (formerly Firebird) and
MozillaThunderbird browser/news components, each running on a shared instance of the
GeckoRuntimeEnvironment shared library.
In the process of all this, new ground was broken in development tools and methodologies, giving rise to
BugZilla, a public bug-tracking database;
MozillaTinderbox, a system for monitoring build quality across multiple platforms; and Bonsai, a web interface to a CVS repository. These tools, most notably
BugZilla, are now used by other projects, notably
RedHat and
OpenOffice.
The content that used to be on this page has been split between TheMozillaProject, MozillaBrowser, and DidTheMozillaProjectSucceed, to attempt to distinguish between the software, and the organization/process that produced it.
http://www.mozilla.org/
In July of 2005 the folks at Mozilla unveiled Devmo, a wiki-based community for Mozilla developers,
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Main_Page
See also
DidTheMozillaProjectSucceed
CategoryProject