Mozilla's 100,000th Bug

benb writes: "bugzilla.mozilla.org just hit bug 100,000 (cached). This proves its scalability. BugZilla is used to track work on Mozilla. Every change has to have a bug. This includes new features and bugs found by developers/testers during development (bugs that never reached users). We also get a lot of duplicates (which dedicated triagers sort out). So, the number of filed closed bugs cannot be used as criteria of the quality of Mozilla. During usage, BugZilla evolved to a very comfortable web platform for filing/tracking bugs, one that has only very few competition (of which I know). Examples are the emailing and dependency systems. In fact, BugZilla is probably the most important communication medium used in the Mozilla project (apart from the source code itself)."

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[RogrWilco]

1) Windows 2000 was not a new creation
2) Many of the bugs are duplicates
3) The fact that they track and repair every bug is a testament to open source
4) Mozilla is an evolving project, which means as more technologies are introduced, more work needs to be done
5) Have you ever written a program the scope of Mozilla without having any bugs on the first go?

Consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds

[rcharbon]

bugzilla.mozilla.org just hit bug 100 000...the number of filed closed bugs cannot be used as criteria of the quality of Mozilla

Keep this in mind the next time you're dumping on M$ for announcing they've fixed thousands of bugs in a Windows product