[ Thanks to S.Ramaswamy for this link.
]
“I’m often asked questions about how the Mozilla project
operates. Since there are probably many people with similar
questions, I’ve created an overview of mozilla.org and the Mozilla
project. In this discussion, I use “Mozilla” to mean the
codebase itself, “Mozilla project” to mean the set of activities
around the Mozilla code (development, testing, etc.) and “Mozilla
community” to mean the set of contributors engaged in these
activities.”
“The Mozilla Organization is the entity which coordinates
Mozilla development. The mission of mozilla.org is to foster a
successful open-source project. This means our core functions are
to guide the overall development of the Mozilla code itself, and to
be the central meeting point of the Mozilla development community.
Participation in the Mozilla project is entirely voluntary, and
mozilla.org strives to make participation both useful and desirable
for potential contributors.”
“mozilla.org provides a wide range of services to assist the
Mozilla development community. We provide technical and
architectural direction for the Mozilla project, working with
contributors to make the Mozilla code useful in a wide variety of
products, platforms and devices. We manage our source code
repository with the same goals in mind. We develop and implement
processes to enhance public discussion, distributed development,
and peer review. We maintain the mozilla.org website and provide
Mozilla-related ftp services, newsgroups and mailing lists.
mozilla.org also develops and maintains a range of tools for use in
the project. A good example is Bugzilla, an open source bug
tracking and management system developed by mozilla.org and used by
a diverse set of development projects.”