Mozilla Developer Center

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[1]

The initial content for the website was provided by DevEdge, for which the Mozilla Foundation was granted a license by AOL.^[2][3] Significant effort has been made to migrate content from mozilla.org.^[4] 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.^[5][6]

The project was initially led by Mozilla Corporation employee Deb Richardson, although it has been led by Eric Shepherd since 2006.^{[3][citation needed]}

MDC is also informally called Devmo, short for developer.mozilla.org, the site's host name.^[2]

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.

References

1. ^ Deb Richardson (2006-03-10). "Regarding Wikis". mozilla.dev.mdc. Google Groups. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.mdc/browse_thread/thread/54d3d0b8f1b9865/4e37d93e39ac6147?lnk=st&q=#4e37d93e39ac6147. Retrieved 2008-05-31. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "About". Mozilla Developer Center. Archived from the original on 2007-10-20. https://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Project:En/About&revision=62. Retrieved 2009-01-30. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Mitchell Baker (2005-02-23). "DevMo and DevEdge updates". http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2005/02/23/devmo-and-devedge-updates/. Retrieved 2008-05-31. 
4. ^ "Existing Content". Mozilla Developer Center. Archived from the original on 2008-05-08. https://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Project:En/Existing_Content&revision=360#Migrated. Retrieved 2009-01-30. 
5. ^ "DevEdge". Mozilla Developer Center. Archived from the original on 2007-10-26. https://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Project:En/DevEdge&revision=26. Retrieved 2009-01-30. 
6. ^ Deb Richardson (2006-02-10). "Digging through the DevEdge archives". mozilla.dev.mdc. Google Groups. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.mdc/browse_thread/thread/d8cdf5d09f1544d6/1b99a30a311ad11b?lnk=st&q=#1b99a30a311ad11b. Retrieved 2008-05-31.