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Mozilla's 100,000th Bug

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations-it's-a-bug dept.

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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  1. Re:Mozzilla may soon surpass Microsoft... by cyberdonny · · Score: 5, Funny
    What was the quote earler? 250,000 bugs in the latest release of MS's software?

    I think it was actually only around 65535. More than that, and their excellent bug tracking software overflows...

  2. Scalable at 100,000 records? Feh! by kawika · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that someone has tried to attack the bug-tracking problem. But 100K records isn't even a decent test case for most big database projects. A database I use has a table with 70 million records and another with 20 million. Bugzilla will need to handle those kind of numbers if it is going to be used to track large software projects like Windows XP. ;-)

  3. Overlooked fact by RogrWilco · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mozilla has yet to reach 1.0, which they stated would be the equivalent of a production release. For al the linux bashers, that's 100,000 bugs which never made it to the release product.
    Similarly, why did MS build bug reporting tools into XP and IE 6? To build a better product. Too bad that they are all basically new versions. Anyone know if this is in the final release?

    Windows XP = Windows 95 v5.0
    95->98->98se->me->XP!