“DevEdge is Coming Back, as DevMo”

According to Mitchell Baker, the top dog at the Mozilla Foundation, they've finally reached an agreement with AOL on the old Netscape DevEdge content.

We've reached an agreement with AOL that allows us to post, modify, and create new documents based on the former Netscape DevEdge materials.

I first mentioned the disappearance of DevEdge on October 10th. Since I still use(d) the devedge sidebars all-the-stinking-time (especially the CSS2.1 and HTML sidebars), I was forced to recreate them from the Internet Archive and serve them locally.

Now Mozilla has hired Deb Richardson full time to manage "DevMo," which is going to be the new Mozilla.org site for developer documentation. I was hoping that person was going to be Nigel McFarlane (but that was based on nothing more than rumors). Hopefully he will be involved in the project: as with all open source projects, the Mozilla project has precious few talented technical writers in its mix of active supporters.