Current Developers

Now for your browsing pleasure (or lack thereof), here's more information than you ever wanted to know about Bugzilla's development team. If you feel that you should be on this list but aren't or have any additions/corrections, please file a request.

Dave Miller

IRC Nick: justdave
Location: Jamestown, MI, USA
Day Job: Webtools Developer / Systems Administrator for Mozilla Corporation
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Project Lead, Web Site; generally not involved in day-to-day project management anymore, but still around because someone has to break the tie when mkanat and LpSolit don't agree on something.
Component Responsibilities: bugzilla.org, Query/Buglist
Quote: "I haven't said anything witty enough to be worth quoting."
Blog: http://www.justdave.net/dave/

Max Kanat-Alexander

IRC Nick: mkanat
Location: Mountain View, CA, USA
Day Job: Founder & Chief Engineer, Everything Solved, Inc.
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Assistant Project Lead, Release Manager, Cleaning Up Stuff
Component Responsibilities: Database, Installation & Upgrading, Authentication
Quote: "I think that should really be a separate bug."
Blog: http://www.codesimplicity.com

Frédéric Buclin

IRC Nick: LpSolit
Location: Switzerland
Day Job: Physicist, now teaching maths and physics
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Assistant Project Lead, Quality Assurance Lead
Component Responsibilities: Attachments & Requests (Flags)
Quote: Please test your patch before requesting review!!
Blog: http://lpsolit.wordpress.com

Guy Pyrzak

IRC Nick: pyrzak
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Day Job: User Experience Researcher and Interaction Designer for NASA Ames HCI Group
Bugzilla Responsibilities: User Experience Lead
Quote: The knob is dead!!!!
Blog: http://guy-pyrzak.blogspot.com

Vitaly Fedrushkov

IRC Nick: SnowyOwl
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Localization (L10n) Lead, Russian Localizer

Colin Ogilvie

IRC Nick: Colin
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Documentation Lead

Gervase Markham

IRC Nick: Gerv
Location: Southgate, North London
Day Job: Loose Cannon at The Mozilla Foundation
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Standards Advocacy
Component Responsibilities: Reporting/Charting

Byron Jones

IRC Nick: glob
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Win32 support

Vlad Dascalu

IRC Nick: vladd
Location: Romania
Day Job: Founder, Goobix.com
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Documentation, bug triage

Dave Lawrence

IRC Nick: dkl
Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
Day Job: Quality Assurance Engineer for Red Hat
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, PostgreSQL port

Xiaoou Wu

IRC Nick: xiaoou
Day Job: Web Application Developer for Oracle
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Oracle port

Josh Soref

IRC Nick: timeless or timely
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Day Job: Software Engineer
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer, Grammar Cop, finding all the edge cases
Quote: "Keep your extremities within your car."

Marc Schumann

IRC Nick: Wurblzap
Location: Erkelenz, Germany, EU
Day Job: Project lead for inconso
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, L10n Team, German Localizer
Quote: “A solid plan is a rather unsatisfying substitute for some cultivated muddling-through.”

Emmanuel Seyman

IRC Nick: manu
Location: Paris, France
Day Job: Software Engineer
Bugzilla Responsibilities: QA Team

Cédric Corazza

IRC Nick: Cedric
Location: Nice, France
Day Job: System engineer
Bugzilla Responsibilities: L10n Team, French Localizer
URL: http://www.frenchmozilla.fr

Sam Folk-Williams

IRC Nick: samfw
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Documentation Team

Gregary Hendricks

IRC Nick: ghendricks
Location: Provo, Utah USA
Day Job: Bugzilla Administrator for Novell and Testopia developer.
Bugzilla Responsibilities: QA Team, Plug-in integration, Bug Importing
Quote:If we're going to talk about good software design, we have to talk about Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris, the basis of good software design. --Larry Wall--
Blog: http://testopia.blogspot.com/

Reed Loden

IRC Nick: reed
Location: Starkville, MS, USA
Day Job: Student
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer-in-Training, bugzilla.mozilla.org branch maintenance
Quote: "I hate perl. I hate perl."

Former Developers

Terry Weissman

IRC Nick: terry
Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA
Day Job: Software Engineer for LiveOps, Inc.
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Project Founder/Former Lead, IRC Heckler, Scapegoat
Quote: "What have they done to my baby!"

Tara Hernandez

IRC Nick: baloo
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Day Job: Infrastructure Engineer at Pixar
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Former Project Lead
Quote: "My head feels so much lighter after the lobotomy."

Christopher Yeh

IRC Nick: cyeh
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Day Job: Release Engineer
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer
Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/cyeh/

Dawn Endico

IRC Nick: dawn or endico
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer

David Kilzer

IRC Nick: ddk
Location: Des Moines, IA, USA
Day Job: Senior Systems & Software Engineer
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer

Ian Hickson

IRC Nick: Hixie
Location: Oslo, Norway
Day Job: Opera Software
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Bugzilla Version 3, Attempting To Sabotage Bugzilla Version 2 Development
Blog: http://ln.hixie.ch/

J. Paul Reed

IRC Nick: JayPee
Day Job: Build Engineer for Songbird
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer

Matthew Tuck

IRC Nick: CodeMachine
Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
Day Job: Freelance Tutor/Contract Programmer
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Bug Triager, Release Notes, QA (supposedly), Developers'/Reviewers' Guide, Sanity Check, Everything No One Else Wants To Do
Quotes: "It's all Terry's fault." - "Targets are things that get missed (unless you're Robin Hood)."

Bradley Baetz

IRC Nick: bbaetz
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Day Job: ISP Engineer
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, mod_perl attempts

Matthew Barnson

IRC Nick: Barnboy
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Documentation

Christopher A. Aillon

IRC Nick: caillon
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Day Job: Software Engineer for Red Hat
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Standards Advocacy
Quote: "I'll have to come up with a quote :)"

Christian Reis

IRC Nick: kiko
Location: São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Day Job: Software Engineer for Async Open Source
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer
Quote:"Day jobs are what take the boredom out of waiting for reviews."
Blog: http://async.com.br/~kiko/

Zach Lipton

IRC Nick: zach
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Day Job: Student
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer
Component Responsibilities: Installation & Upgrading, Testing Suite
Blog: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/zach/

Mike Morgan

IRC Nick: morgamic
Location: Corvallis, OR, USA
Day Job: Web Developer for Mozilla Corporation
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Web Design, Writing, Structure
Quote: "Yeah, but how does it smell?"
Blog: http://morgamic.com

Jacob Steenhagen

IRC Nick: Jake
Location: Fruitport, MI, USA
Day Job: U.S.Army Reserves (deployed)
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Documentation, ssdbot Maintainer, word Maintainer
Quote: "I'd rather drive the .html file to your house on a floppy disk than run IIS."
Blog: http://www.steenhagen.us/~jake/blog

Joel Peshkin

IRC Nick: Joel
Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
Day Job: Director of Software QA for Impinj
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Group security, enhancements for enterprise use.
Quote: "Leave no dhrystone unturned."

Erik Stambaugh

IRC Nick: ____erik, squinky, not_erik
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Day job: Systems Engineer for Mindspeed
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer
Component Responsibilities: Whining

Jouni Heikniemi

IRC Nick: jth
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Day Job: Software Architect at Blue Meteorite Ltd
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Win32 testing
Blog: http://www.heikniemi.net/hc/

Myk Melez

IRC Nick: myk
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Day Job: Mozilla Labs Developer for Mozilla Corporation
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer/Approver
Component Responsibilities: Attachments & Requests, Creating/Changing Bugs, User Accounts

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