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Mozilla Development Forums

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  2. Projectwide Forums
  3. General Development
  4. Mozilla Technologies
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At mozilla.org, we host public mailing lists and newsgroups to foster open communication in the developer community. mozilla.org also hosts an IRC server for real-time chat.

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General Information

Most forums are in pairs of a newsgroup and a mailing list. Each one mirrors its mate: posts in one newsgroup will show up in its corresponding mailing list, and vice versa.

Mozilla newsgroups are provided and hosted by Giganews Newsgroups. Giganews is sponsoring free access to the Mozilla Development Forums' Usenet hierarchy "mozilla.*". Please respect the parts of their Acceptable Use Policy which are relevant to non-Giganews subscribers. Use news.mozilla.org as the news server address in your news client. You will not need to use any authentication information.

The mozilla.* hierarchy is a local news hierarchy only available through news.mozilla.org and is not propagated to other Usenet servers. This is by design, in order to both help eliminate spam and provide slower lag time between posts and replies without having to wait for propagation. Please do not mirror our newsgroups elsewhere without providing a disclaimer that they should use news.mozilla.org to post. (We do share them with Google Groups for archives purposes)

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End-User Support

Please read the Mozilla forum etiquette document for posting rules and conventions.

mozilla.support.firefox Support for Firefox.
mozilla.support.thunderbird Support for Thunderbird.
mozilla.support.mozilla-suite Support for the Mozilla Suite.
mozilla.support.camino Support for Camino, the lightweight native Mac OS X browser.
mozilla.support.seamonkey Support for Seamonkey, the community-driven continuation of the Mozilla suite.
mozilla.support.bugzilla Support for the Bugzilla web-based bug-tracking tool.
mozilla.support.calendar Support for the Calendar and Lightning projects.
mozilla.support.webtools Support for webtools other than Bugzilla (e.g. Bonsai, Tinderbox, LXR, Doctor, Hendrix)
mozilla.support.accessibility Support for using Mozilla with the keyboard, screen readers, screen magnifiers and voice dictation products.
mozilla.support.other Support for other products or projects without a specific group.
mozilla.support.planning For discussions about improving Firefox Support.

Feedback

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mozilla.feedback.firefox Output of Firefox feedback from Hendrix.
mozilla.feedback.firefox.prerelease Output of Firefox pre-release feedback from Hendrix.
mozilla.feedback.thunderbird Output of Thunderbird feedback from Hendrix.
mozilla.feedback.thunderbird.prerelease Output of Thunderbird pre-release feedback from Hendrix.
mozilla.feedback.companion.ebay Output of Ebay Companion feedback.
mozilla.feedback Output of general feedback from Hendrix.

Projectwide Forums

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mozilla.announce New releases will be announced here. This is a low-volume, moderated group, for announcements only (not discussions).
mozilla.announce.prerelease Announcements of Mozilla product pre-releases.
mozilla.evangelism The Mozilla Tech-Evangelism project - persuading websites to use web standards.
mozilla.events For discussions about Mozilla events.
mozilla.general For everything with no forum of its own: discussion about any and all aspects of all the things that we're doing here at mozilla.org.
mozilla.governance Governance of the Mozilla Project.
mozilla.jobs For use by those interested in hiring folks to work on Mozilla-related projects as well as by those seeking such work.
mozilla.legal For discussions about the licensing terms of the Mozilla source code and other legal issues.
mozilla.marketing Our plans for world domination.
mozilla.wishlist For discussions of future ideas, ranging from the practical to the far out. Read the wishlist FAQ to see if your wish has already been discussed.

General Development

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mozilla.community.enterprise For discussions about Enterprise issues.
mozilla.community.mozpad For discussions of the Mozilla Platform Application Developers Community.
mozilla.dev.accessibility For the accessibility development effort.
mozilla.dev.builds For discussions about compiling the source code or improving the build system.
mozilla.dev.documentation For discussions about documentation: how it should be written, distributed, maintained, and so on. This is not the place to ask where help files are.
mozilla.dev.embedding For embedding Mozilla components such as Gecko, ender, and JavaScript into software.
mozilla.dev.extensions For extension developers.
mozilla.dev.i18n For discussions about internationalization (I18N) issues. I18N is the infrastructure that allows software to be localized.
mozilla.dev.l10n For localization (L10N) issues. L10N is the process of adapting software to a specific language and culture (see also internationalization).
mozilla.dev.mdc Mozilla Developer Center discussion
mozilla.dev.mdc.feedback Developer Center feedback; includes output from MDC Hendrix.
mozilla.dev.mdc.es For discussion about Spanish content on Mozilla Developer Center.
mozilla.dev.mdc.ja For discussion about Japanese content on Mozilla Developer Center.
mozilla.dev.mdc.pt For discussion about Portuguese content on Mozilla Developer Center.
mozilla.dev.mozilla-org For people working on the mozilla.org website.
mozilla.dev.planning For project planning, meeting minutes, roadmap discussions.
mozilla.dev.platform For people working on Mozilla-the-platform.
mozilla.dev.quality For QA discussion, including using Bugzilla, Mozilla testing, and bug triaging. Do not report bugs here.
mozilla.dev.security Security issues such as specific security problems or ideas for making the code as a whole more secure can be discussed here. Cryptography, however, is not within this group's charter.
mozilla.dev.static-analysis For discussion about Pork, Dehydra, rewriting and static analysis projects.
mozilla.dev.super-review This forum is a mirror of the super-review mailing list. Requests for patch review and change of review status in Bugzilla are automatically posted here.
mozilla.dev.themes For theme developers.
mozilla.dev.usability For discussions on user interface and usability issues, including future directions, cross-platform consistency, and so on.
mozilla.web-developers.general For discussions about making web sites render correctly in Mozilla browsers.

Mozilla Technologies

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mozilla.dev.tech.crypto For discussions about cryptography, and cryptographic issues surrounding the Mozilla source code. See the PKI project for more info.
mozilla.dev.tech.crypto.checkins Join this list if you'd like to be automatically notified of all check-ins to Mozilla's crypto code.
mozilla.dev.tech.dom For discussions about the Document Object Model (DOM) in Mozilla. For scripting discussions, see the scripting resources page.
mozilla.dev.tech.editor For discussions about HTML and text editing controls, including the Composer component, rich text editing and text widgets.
mozilla.dev.tech.gfx For people working on Mozilla's graphics subsystem, including the port to Cairo.
mozilla.dev.tech.java For discussions about Java: both embedding JREs in Mozilla and extending Mozilla itself using Java code. Also check out the plug-in forum.
mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine For JavaScript engines, including Spidermonkey (JavaScript in C) and Rhino (JavaScript in Java). For scripting support, see the scripting resources.
mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine.rhino For discussions about Rhino. Implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java.
mozilla.dev.tech.layout For discussions about document layout in Mozilla, including Gecko. Also check out the style and SVG forums.
mozilla.dev.tech.ldap For discussions about the C SDK, Java SDK, and PerLDAP, which are toolkits for developing LDAP applications.
mozilla.dev.tech.mathml For discussions about the implementation of W3C's Mathematical Markup Language.
mozilla.dev.tech.network For discussions about the Mozilla Networking Library, a.k.a. netlib.
mozilla.dev.tech.nspr For discussions about the portable runtime code used by Mozilla.
mozilla.dev.tech.plugins For discussions about plug-ins. Developers may also check out the Java and NSPR forums.
mozilla.dev.tech.rdf For discussions about the Resource Description Framework (RDF) including the Aurora module.
mozilla.dev.tech.sql For discussions about using SQL in Mozilla.
mozilla.dev.tech.svg This is the project forum for implementing Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in Mozilla.
mozilla.dev.tech.xbl For discussion about the XML Bindings Language (XBL).
mozilla.dev.tech.xforms For discussion about XForms in Firefox and Mozilla.
mozilla.dev.tech.xml For discussions about using XML in Mozilla.
mozilla.dev.tech.xpcom This forum is for discussions about the Cross-Platform Component Object Model (XPCOM) that we are using to purvey and discover interfaces between independently versioned and loaded modules. XPCOM combined with XPIDL also provides scriptability.
mozilla.dev.tech.xpinstall For discussions about installation related technology in Mozilla including packaging and updating.
mozilla.dev.tech.xslt For discussions of use of the XSL Transformations language in the Mozilla layout engine.
mozilla.dev.tech.xul For discussion about the XML-based User-interface Language (XUL).

Application Development

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mozilla.dev.apps.bugzilla For development of the Bugzilla bug-tracking system (for support, see mozilla.support.bugzilla).
mozilla.dev.apps.calendar For development of the standard-based Calendar projects - Sunbird and Lightning.
mozilla.dev.apps.camino For development of the Camino native Mac OS X browser.
mozilla.dev.apps.chatzilla For development of the Chatzilla IRC chat extension.
mozilla.dev.apps.dom-inspector For development of the DOM Inspector, an extension to help web developers peer inside pages.
mozilla.dev.apps.firefox For development of Firefox, a lightweight browser built on the Mozilla platform.
mozilla.dev.apps.js-debugger For discussions about the JavaScript Debugger (Venkman). Questions about how to use, program, or document the debugger, as well as feature requests are on-topic here.
mozilla.dev.apps.minimo For discussions about porting Mozilla to small devices (the Minimo project).
mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey This forum is for developers working on Seamonkey, the community continuation of the Mozilla software suite.
mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird For development of Thunderbird, an email client built on the Mozilla platform.
mozilla.dev.apps.webtools mozilla.org has developed several Web-based tools for code management, including Bonsai (CVS queries), and Tinderbox (continuous automated builds). This forum is for discussion of their development. (For the Bugzilla bug-tracking system, see above.)
mozilla.dev.apps.other For development of other mozilla.org software not covered by a more specific group.

Ports To Other OSes

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mozilla.dev.ports.os2 For discussions about porting Mozilla to OS/2.
mozilla.dev.ports.beos For discussions about porting Mozilla to BeOS.
mozilla.dev.platforms.linux For coordinating more involvement from the Linux distros and community.
mozilla.dev.platforms.mobile For discussions about the Mozilla platform on mobile devices.

Localization

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mozilla.dev.l10n.cs For discussion of the Czech localization of Mozilla products.
mozilla.dev.l10n.de For discussions of the German localization of Mozilla projects.
mozilla.dev.l10n.fa For discussions of the Persian localization of Mozilla projects.
mozilla.dev.l10n.in For discussions of the Indian localization of Mozilla projects.
mozilla.dev.l10n.sk For discussion of the Slovak localization of Mozilla projects.
mozilla.dev.l10n.web For Mozilla website localization co-ordination.

Testing

Please read the Mozilla forum etiquette document for posting rules and conventions.

mozilla.test For test messages.
mozilla.test.multimedia For binary test messages.

Realtime Chat

You can talk to people in the community in real time by logging on mozilla.org's chat server (irc.mozilla.org) with an IRC client. Please read the /motd.