This is a comparison between various Open Source communities, the methodologies, processes, and tools they employ, and their underlying philosophies. Please add information!
| Mozilla | Fedora | OpenOffice.org | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Products | Primary products | Firefox web browser, Thunderbird e-mail client, Prism application platform, Seamonkey internet suite | Fedora Linux distribution | OpenOffice.org office suite |
| Key downstream projects | Miro | 63 derivative distributions | Star Office (Sun) | |
| Communication | Main Web Sites | http://mozilla.org | http://fedoraproject.org | http://openoffice.org |
| IRC Channels | irc.mozilla.org:#developers - Developers
irc.mozilla.org:#firefox - Firefox general irc.mozilla.org:#thunderbird - Thunderbird general ...and others on irc.mozilla.org... |
freenode.net:#developers - Developers
freenode.net:#fedora - General discussion ...and others starting with #fedora on irc.freenode.net... |
freenode.net#dev.openoffice.org - Developers
freenode.net#openoffice.org - General discussion ...and others ending with openoffice.org on irc.freenode.net... | |
| Related Seneca IRC Channel | irc.mozilla.org:#seneca | freenode.net:#seneca | freenode.net:#seneca | |
| Mailing lists, gatewayed newsgroups, and archives | Mozilla development forums - Available via Usenet News (including Google Groups) | Fedora mailing lists and archives - Available via Gmane Newsgroups | General & Project mailing lists - Available via Gmane Newsgroups | |
| Code | Primary Languages | C++, JS, XUL, XML, CSS | (Various) | C++ |
| Secondary Languages (including scaffolding and infrastructure) | bash, perl, python | python, bash, perl | Java | |
| Codebase size | ~6-10 million lines | 47 million lines of C/C++, plus code in other languages (~6000 RPM packages) | ?? million lines | |
| Platforms | Tier-1 Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X | Linux | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X |
| Hardware | x86_32, x86_64, PPC | x86_32, x86_64, PPC
(via derivatives: Alpha, Sparc, z9) |
x85_32, x86_64, PPC | |
| Community Size | Users | 125 million+ Firefox users | 2 million+ | |
| Developers and Contributors | 1200 people who have signed the CLA | |||
| CVS commit access | 600 people |