As an open-source developer, you have many choices as to where to host your projects. For those familiar with our open-source, off-the-shelf tooling, the administrative learning curve is reduced when starting a new project. For those not familiar with our tooling, your learning experience is reusable across the open-source community in general. Mozdev wants to be your hosting provider for all of your Mozilla-related projects. Here's why we think we're the best choice.
+ General Services
|| || **Mozdev** || **[http://code.google.com/ Google Code]** || **[http://sourceforge.net/ SourceForge]** ||
|| **Forums ** || Yes--[http://drupal.org/ Drupal] || No || Yes--homegrown ||
|| **Mailing Lists** || Yes--[http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html Mailman] || Yes || Yes-homegrown ||
|| **Newsgroups** || Yes || Yes--Google Groups || Yes ||
|| **Scripting** || Yes--[http://www.php.net/ PHP] || No || Yes--[http://www.php.net/ PHP] ||
|| **Databases** || Yes--[http://www.mysql.com/ MySQL] || No || Yes--[http://www.mysql.com/ MySQL] ||
|| **Bug Reporting** || Yes--[http://www.bugzilla.org/ Bugzilla] || Yes--homegrown || Yes--homegrown ||
|| **Revision Control** || Yes--[http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/ CVS] and soon [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial Mercurial] || Yes--Subversion|| CVS and Subversion ||
|| **Content Management** || Yes--[http://drupal.org/ Drupal] || Yes--homegrown || No ||
|| **Code Search** || Coming Soon (MXR) || Yes--[http://www.google.com/codesearch homegrown] || No ||
|| **Native file uploads** || Not yet (must go through CVS) || No || Yes--ssh/scp ||
|| **Mirror Network** || Yes || No || Yes ||
|| **License Options** || Any [http://opensource.org/ OSI] license|| See list || See list ||
|| **Free from Required Content Licensing** || Yes || No one || No one ||
|| **Blog** || Yes--[http://drupal.org/ Drupal] || No || No ||
|| **Wiki** || Yes--[http://drupal.org/ Drupal] || Yes || Yes-homegrown ||
|| **News Feed Publishing** || Yes--[http://drupal.org/ Drupal] || No || Yes-homegrown ||
+ Mozilla-specific Services
|| || **Mozdev** || **[http://code.google.com/ Google Code]** || **[http://sourceforge.net/ SourceForge]** ||
|| **Support for FF3 Secure Updates** || Yes || No || No ||
|| **Update.rdf auto-generation** || Yes || No || No ||
|| **Mozilla-specific community support** || Yes--[http://mozdev.org/pipermail/project_owners/ mailing lists], [http://mozdev.org/pipermail/project_owners/ newsgroups], and [http://irc.mozilla.org#mozdev IRC] || No || No ||
|| **Integration with addons.mozilla.org** || Soon || No || No ||
+ Miscellaneous
|| || **Mozdev** || **[http://code.google.com/ Google Code]** || **[http://sourceforge.net/ SourceForge]** ||
|| **Non-profit Organization** || Yes || No || No ||
|| **Project Owner can earn money through ad networks** || Yes || No || Yes two ||
|| **Maturity** || 2000 || 2006 || 1999 ||
Footnote one
By uploading code or other content to [http://code.google.com/ Google Code] or SourceForge.net, you grant the respective company a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license. For specifics see the [http://code.google.com/tos.html Google Terms of Service] under "4. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS" / "Your Rights" and the SourceForge [http://sourceforge.net/tos/tos.php Terms Of Use] under "6. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS" / "Your Rights".
Footnote two
SourceForge requires the project owner to use their advertising network, and they share some revenue with you. mozdev has no such requirements, and project owners can keep 100% of their earnings.
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