module owners

An Owner is responsible for fielding bug reports, enhancement requests, patch submissions, and so on. The owner should facilitate good development, as defined by the developer community. Many of the owners below happen to work for Netscape, but that's not a prerequisite.

A Module is a collection of source files that form a coherent bundle, probably a library (whether DLL/DSO or static). Some modules, notably the Front Ends, link as executables. We would like most modules to use XP-COM, but only a few have been converted and released to mozilla.org so far.

A Platform is pragmatically defined by the kind of code you have to port, which is mostly UI code in the Front Ends. CPU architecture and OS dependencies are mostly abstracted by NSPR. If you're contemplating a port (e.g., to BeOS on one or more hardware platforms), please mail brendan, nominate some peers, and provide some documents.

(FE = Front End, BE = Back End, XP = Cross Platform)

Module: 2-D Graphics
	Owner:	Kevin McCluskey
	Source:
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.layout
	Peers:	Stuart Parmenter, Ramiro Estrugo, Michael Plitkins, Don Cone, Patrick Beard
	Documents:

Module: Aurora/RDF BE
	Owner:	Robert Churchill
	Source:	rdf
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.rdf
	Peers:	Chris Waterson, Mike Shaver
	Documents:

Module: Berkeley DB (need owner; note misnamed source directory)
	Owner:	Mike Shaver
	Source:	dbm
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Chris McAfee, Gagan Saksena, Brendan Eich
	Documents:

Module: Build Config
	Owner:	Daniel (leaf) Nunes, Christopher Yeh, Chris Seawood
	Source:	build, config, l10n
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.builds
	Peers:	Wan-Teh Chang
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/build/mac.html, http://www.mozilla.org/build/unix.html, http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/autoconf/

Module: CCK (Client Customization Kit Source Code)
	Owner:	Steve Elmer
	Source:	cck
	Newsgroup:	netscape.client.customization
	Peers:
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/

Module: Client NSPR
	Owner:
	Source:
	Newsgroup:
	Peers:
	Documents:

Module: Clipping and Compositing
	Owner:	Patrick Beard
	Source:	view
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.layout
	Peers:	Vidur Apparao, Michael Plitkins
	Documents:

Module: ColorSync Branch (ColorSync_19980824_BRANCH: branch for integrating Apple's ColorSynch technology into mozilla.)
	Owner:	Eric Broadbent
	Source:
	Newsgroup:
	Peers:	Mike Pinkerton, Pam Nunn, Chris Saari
	Documents:

Module: Composer (Editor/Composer)
	Owner:	Akkana Peck
	Source:	editor
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.editor
	Peers:	Michael Judge, Joaquin Blas, Joe Francis, Charles Manske, Steve Clark, Kathleen Brade
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/editor

Module: Dialup
	Owner:	Steve Elmer
	Source:	cmd/dialup
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Sol Goldfarb
	Documents:	http://help.netscape.com/docs/client/MC/acctproc4.html

Module: Directory SDK (Tools and SDKs for accessing LDAP Directories.)
	Owner:	Mark C. Smith
	Source:	directory
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.directory
	Peers:	Michael Hein, Kartik Subbarao, Miodrag Kekic, Leif Hedstrom, John Kristian
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/directory

Module: Document Object Model
	Owner:	Vidur Apparao
	Source:	dom
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.layout
	Peers:	Tom Pixley
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/dom-roadmap.html

Module: ef (Electrical Fire -- Just-In-Time Java compiler)
	Owner:	Scott Furman
	Source:	ef
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.java
	Peers:	Chris Toshok
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ef/

Module: Embeddable Web Browser
	Owner:	Scott Collins
	Source:	webshell
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.layout
	Peers:	Rick Potts, Kipp Hickman, Nisheeth Ranjan
	Documents:

Module: GTK (supported X widgetry and gfx)
	Owner:	Stuart Parmenter
	Source:	gfx/src/gtk, widget/src/gtk
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.gtk, netscape.public.mozilla.unix
	Peers:	Christopher Blizzard, Syd Logan, Ramiro Estrugo, Chris McAfee
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/unix/, http://www.gtk.org, http://www.mozilla.org/ports/gtk/

Module: GTK Embedding Widget
	Owner:
	Source:
	Newsgroup:
	Peers:
	Documents:

Module: HTML to Text/PostScript Translation
	Owner:	Don Cone
	Source:	gfx/src/ps
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.layout
	Peers:	Syd Logan
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/classic/mwcodesc.html

Module: I18N Library
	Owner:	Naoki Hotta, Yung-Fong Tang, Erik van der Poel, Bob Jung, Tague Griffith, Tao Cheng
	Source:	include/csid.h, include/intl_csi.h, include/libi18n.h, include/resdef.h, include/xpgetstr.h, include/xplocale.h, include/xpresdef.h, include/xupfonts.h, lib/libi18n
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.i18n
	Peers:
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/docs/refList/i18n/

Module: Image Conversion Library
	Owner:	Michael Judge
	Source:	include/libcnv.h
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Pam Nunn, John Giannandrea
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/classic/imagdesc.html

Module: ImageLib
	Owner:	Pam Nunn
	Source:	modules/libimg, modules/libutil
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Vidur Apparao
	Documents:

Module: Java and JS Capability-Based Security
	Owner:	Norris Boyd
	Source:	caps
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Warren Harris, Sudharshan Srinivasan
	Documents:

Module: Java APIs for DOM (APIs for Java access to the Document Object Model)
	Owner:	Akhil Arora
	Source:	java/dom
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.dom, netscape.public.mozilla.java
	Peers:	Denis Sharypov
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/dom/

Module: Java APIs to WebShell
	Owner:	Edward J. Burns
	Source:	java/webclient
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.java, netscape.public.mozilla.layout, netscape.public.mozilla.embedding
	Peers:
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/webclient/

Module: Java Front End
	Owner:	Malini Minasandram
	Source:	java/fe
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.java
	Peers:
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/fe/

Module: Java Stubs (OJI)
	Owner:	George Drapeau
	Source:	modules/oji, nav-java, sun-java
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.oji
	Peers:	Edward J. Burns, Patrick Beard, Alex Musil, Mark Lin
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/oji/

Module: Java to XPCOM Bridge
	Owner:	Frank Mitchell
	Source:	java/xpcom
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.xpcom, netscape.public.mozilla.java
	Peers:
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/connect/

Module: Java Utility Classes (assert, debug, utilities, etc.)
	Owner:	Edward J. Burns
	Source:	java/util
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.java
	Peers:
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/java-util/

Module: Java-Implemented Plugins (Infrastructure for writing MIME content-handlers in Java.)
	Owner:	Igor Kushnirskiy
	Source:	java/plugins
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.java
	Peers:	Akhil Arora
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/java-plugins/

Module: JavaScript
	Owner:	Roger Lawrence
	Source:	js/ref, js/src
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
	Peers:	Mike McCabe, Mike Shaver, Scott Furman, Brendan Eich
	Documents:	http://developer.netscape.com/support/faqs/jsref/, http://www.mozilla.org/js/

Module: JavaScript Debugger (JavaScript Debugger and debug support code)
	Owner:	James Huntley, Amy Fong, Gurpreet Bains, Jamie Falzon, Rocky Shek, Steve Costa, Joe Yam
	Source:	extensions/jsd, js/jsd
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
	Peers:	Brendan Eich, John Bandhauer, Mike Shaver
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/js/jsd

Module: JPEG Image Handling
	Owner:	Tom Lane
	Source:
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Pam Nunn
	Documents:

Module: js-tests (JavaScript test suite)
	Owner:	Christine Begle
	Source:	js/tests
	Newsgroup:	netscape.mozilla.public.jseng
	Peers:
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/js/tests/library.html

Module: LiveConnect
	Owner:	Scott Furman
	Source:	js/jsj
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Mike Shaver, Brendan Eich
	Documents:

Module: Locked-Content (Content files that need strict policing.)
	Owner:	David Hyatt
	Source:
	Newsgroup:
	Peers:
	Documents:

Module: Macintosh FE
	Owner:	Steve Dagley
	Source:	cmd/macfe
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general, netscape.public.mozilla.ui
	Peers:	Scott Collins, Chris Saari, Mike Pinkerton, Pierre Saslawsky, Gordon Sheridan, David Matiskella
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/build/mac.html

Module: Mail/News (Code shared by the Email and Usenet News reading clients. )
	Owner:	Phil Peterson
	Source:	mailnews
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news
	Peers:	Scott MacGregor, Scott Putterman, David Bienvenu
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/

Module: MIME (RFC822 MIME Parser)
	Owner:	Rich Pizzarro
	Source:	mailnews/mime
	Newsgroup:	nenetscape.public.mozilla.mail-news
	Peers:	Jeff Tsai
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/

Module: Mozilla Tools (Tools useful to people developing or compiling Mozilla, but which aren't part of the build process or runtime)
	Owner:	Daniel (leaf) Nunes, Christopher Yeh
	Source:	tools
	Newsgroup:
	Peers:
	Documents:

Module: mozilla-toplevel (The top level directory for the mozilla tree.)
	Owner:	Brendan Eich
	Source:	mozilla
	Newsgroup:
	Peers:	Christopher Yeh
	Documents:

Module: Mstone (A multi-protocol benchmarking tool.)
	Owner:	Dan Mosedale
	Source:	mstone
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.mstone
	Peers:
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mstone/

Module: NetLib
	Owner:	Gagan Saksena
	Source:	network
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Warren Harris, Judson Valeski, Rick Potts
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/docs/netlib/

Module: New HTML Layout Engine
	Owner:	Troy Chevalier
	Source:
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.layout
	Peers:	Rick Gessner, Peter Linss, Kipp Hickman
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/

Module: New HTML Parser
	Owner:	Rick Gessner
	Source:	htmlparser
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.layout
	Peers:	Harish Dhurvasula
	Documents:

Module: New HTML Style System
	Owner:	Pierre Saslawsky
	Source:
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.layout
	Peers:
	Documents:

Module: New Layout Engine
	Owner:	Troy Chevalier
	Source:	layout
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.layout
	Peers:	Kipp Hickman, Rick Gessner
	Documents:

Module: News (Usenet newsreader client)
	Owner:	Seth Spitzer
	Source:	mailnews/news
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news
	Peers:	Scott MacGregor, David Bienvenu
	Documents:

Module: NSPR (Netscape Portable Runtime)
	Owner:	Srinivas Lingutla
	Source:	nsprpub
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.nspr
	Peers:	Wan-Teh Chang, Lawrence Hardiman
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/docs/refList/refNSPR/, http://www.mozilla.org/docs/reflist/refNSPR/nspbuild.htm http://www.mozilla.org/docs/refList/refNSPR/moddesc.html

Module: PerlConnect (Perl and JavaScript connection )
	Owner:	Vladimir Livshits
	Source:	js/src/perlconnect
	Newsgroup:	netscape.dev.jsref
	Peers:	Mike McCabe
	Documents:	http://cvs-mirror.mozilla.org/webtools/lxr/source/js/src/perlconnect/README.html

Module: Photon (UI for Neutrino 2.0 and QNX 4)
	Owner:	Jerry L. Kirk
	Source:	base/src/photon, gfx/src/photon, widget/src/photon
	Newsgroup:
	Peers:
	Documents:

Module: PICS
	Owner:	Neeti Jain
	Source:	lib/libpics
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Gagan Saksena
	Documents:

Module: Plugins
	Owner:	Andrew Volkov
	Source:	modules/plugin
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Alex Musil
	Documents:

Module: PNG Image Handling
	Owner:	Greg Roelofs
	Source:
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Pam Nunn
	Documents:	http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/pngmoz.html

Module: Preferences (Preference library)
	Owner:	Neeti Jain
	Source:	modules/libpref
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:
	Documents:

Module: Profile Manager (Code for installing and managing user profiles.)
	Owner:	Steve Elmer
	Source:	profile
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.prefs
	Peers:	Seth Spitzer, Bhuvan Racham
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/profilemanager

Module: Progress Window
	Owner:	Eric Vaughan
	Source:	modules/progress
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:
	Documents:

Module: Registry
	Owner:	Dan Veditz
	Source:	modules/libreg
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Doug Turner
	Documents:

Module: Remote XPCOM (Cross-Process XPCOM)
	Owner:	Igor Kushnirskiy
	Source:	xpcom/remote
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.xpcom
	Peers:
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/remote-xpcom/

Module: Rhino (Javascript interpreter implemented in Java)
	Owner:	Norris Boyd
	Source:	js/rhino
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
	Peers:	Mike McCabe, Patrick Beard, Roger Lawrence
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/

Module: security (Crypto/PKI code, including NSS (Network Security Services) and PSM (Personal Security Manager))
	Owner:	Mark Welch
	Source:	security
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.crypto
	Peers:	Lisa Repka, Fred Roeber, , David Drinan
	Documents:

Module: Security Stubs (Isolation of Netscape crypto code from the Mozilla source )
	Owner:	Mark Welch
	Source:	modules/security
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.security
	Peers:	Lisa Repka
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/crypto-faq.html

Module: Silent Download
	Owner:	Doug Turner
	Source:	silentdl
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.netlib
	Peers:	Raman Tenneti
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/silentdl/

Module: small-devices
	Owner:
	Source:
	Newsgroup:
	Peers:
	Documents:

Module: SmartUpdate
	Owner:	Dan Veditz
	Source:	modules/softupdt
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Doug Turner
	Documents:

Module: Widgets (Widget Interfaces for HTML and XUL)
	Owner:	Kevin McCluskey
	Source:	widget/public
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.layout
	Peers:	Christopher Blizzard, Stuart Parmenter, Mike Pinkerton, Ramiro Estrugo
	Documents:

Module: Windows FE
	Owner:	Bill Law
	Source:	cmd/wincom, cmd/winfe
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general, netscape.public.mozilla.ui
	Peers:	Rick Potts, Scott Putterman, David Hyatt, Daniel Matejka
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/classic/winfdesc.html, http://www.mozilla.org/classic/build/classic-win.html

Module: Xlib-based gfx + widget (Xlib-based gfx and widget includes code that does all of the window creation, management and native drawing required by the mozilla layout engine.)
	Owner:	Christopher Blizzard
	Source:	gfx/src/xlib, widget/src/xlib
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.layout
	Peers:	Ramiro Estrugo
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/unix/xlib.html

Module: XML
	Owner:	Nisheeth Ranjan
	Source:	expat
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Vidur Apparao, Rick Gessner
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/xml.html

Module: xmlterm
	Owner:	Ramalingam Saravanan
	Source:	extensions/xmlterm
	Newsgroup:
	Peers:	Robert Ginda
	Documents:

Module: XP File Handling
	Owner:	Doug Turner
	Source:	xpcom/io
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.xpcom
	Peers:
	Documents:

Module: XPApps (Crossplatform Applications, mostly Navigator front end and application shell.)
	Owner:	Don Melton
	Source:	xpfe
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.xpfe
	Peers:	Steve Lamm, Rick Potts, Radha Kulkarni, Bill Law, Gordon Sheridan, David Matiskella
	Documents:	www.mozilla.org/xpapps/

Module: XPCOM
	Owner:	Suresh Duddi
	Source:	xpcom
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	Warren Harris, Scott Collins, Doug Turner
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/docs/modunote.htm, http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html

Module: XPConnect
	Owner:	John Bandhauer
	Source:	js/src/xpconnect, xpcom/reflect/xptcall, xpcom/reflect/xptinfo
	Newsgroup:
	Peers:	Scott Furman, Mike Ang, Mike McCabe, Mike Shaver
	Documents:

Module: XPIDL (Cross-platform IDL compiler; produces .h C++ header files and .xpt runtime type description files from .idl interface description files. Also produces .java interface files, as part of an experimental java<->xpcom connection layer.)
	Owner:	Mike McCabe
	Source:	xpcom/typelib
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.xpcom
	Peers:	Mike Shaver, Mike Ang, John Bandhauer
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/scriptable/xpidl http://www.mozilla.org/scriptable

Module: XPToolkit (Crossplatform interface toolkit)
	Owner:	Peter Trudelle
	Source:
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.xpfe
	Peers:	Eric Vaughan, Ramiro Estrugo, Chris McAfee, David Hyatt, Daniel Matejka, Chris Saari, Steve Dagley, Mike Pinkerton, Scott Collins
	Documents:	http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/

Module: XSLT Processor (XSLT transformations processor)
	Owner:	Keith Visco
	Source:	extensions/transformiix
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.layout.xslt
	Peers:	Vidur Apparao, Troy Chevalier, Thomas Kneeland Jr., Nisheeth Ranjan
	Documents:	W3C XSLT 1.0 Specification TransforMiiX Readme.html file

Module: xul.css
	Owner:
	Source:
	Newsgroup:
	Peers:
	Documents:

Module: Zlib
	Owner:	Pam Nunn
	Source:	modules/zlib
	Newsgroup:	netscape.public.mozilla.general
	Peers:	John Giannandrea
	Documents: