Mozart Governance

The development of the Mozart Programming System is done by volunteers from the Mozart user community. The responsibility for managing this development is given to a small core group, the Mozart Board. The Board votes on Mozart Enhancement Proposals (MEPs) and gives developers the appropriate rights.

Anyone is free to submit a MEP. The index of all MEPs and the procedure for submitting a new MEP is available here. We suggest you first ‘test the waters’ by discussing your proposal on the Mozart users or hackers lists.

After the submission, the MEP is further discussed on the Mozart hackers mailing list and eventually voted on by the Mozart Board. The voting procedure is explained here.

The Mozart Programming System was originally developed by Gert Smolka and his research group at Universität des Saarlandes in the early 1990s. At that time it was called DFKI Oz. In 1999 development continued with an international group, the Mozart Consortium, that consisted of Universität des Saarlandes, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), and the Université catholique de Louvain, and that was aided by several other institutions. In 2005, the responsibility for managing Mozart development was transferred to the Mozart Board.

The previous Mozart Consortium page