Mozilla Bug Week

Gerv writes: "Do you run Mozilla? Is there something about Mozilla that bugs you? Do you have an itch you want to scratch? From Saturday October 27th to Sunday November 4th, mozilla.org will be running a "Bug Week". Experienced Mozilla hackers will be available to help anyone who wants to get involved with the Mozilla code. Engineers from companies using Mozilla or Mozilla technologies, interested onlookers, and those who are involved with the project, but have never hacked on the code, are all welcome to come along and get their feet wet."

Gerv continues:

"You'll be shown round our world-class web-based tools (Bugzilla, Bonsai, Tinderbox, LXR), and led through all the steps between discovering a problem and having your patch checked in to the Mozilla source tree. After checkin, those fixes and features will be appreciated by an audience of millions in Mozilla derivative products.

Not Just For Hardcore Hackers

"Mozilla's user interface is written in web technologies - defined in XUL (XML-based User-interface Language), animated with JavaScript and styled with Cascading Style Sheets. This means it can be understood, and hacked on, by anyone who understands HTML/XML, JS and Style Sheets. mozilla.org has recently developed technology to allow fixes to be made to Mozilla's UI without the need to compile Mozilla - all you need is a self-installing nightly build. This widens the field of potential contributors to everyone who's ever made a decent web page.

"So, if you have thought about getting involved in a free software project, but it all seemed to complicated or difficult, here's your chance.

"On the other hand, if you want to check the entire source tree out from CVS, compile the embedding test harness, and go into deep hack mode on Mozilla's C++ core, we'll help you do that too.

"Bug Week will be happening on IRC. Mozilla's nightly builds even include a chat client, ChatZilla, to make it even easier to participate. Look for people whose nicks begin with "BW_". We hope to have people there most of the time, although the help may be concentrated when the US West Coast or Europe is awake."

Comments

where

[Anonymous Coward]

Where the fuck did aol get the people working on this shitty project?

Seriously these people fucking suck. And the couple lame "hacker dudes" that are high school graduate no computer science background coders that offered to "help" aren't any better.

Mozilla is just a big industry joke. Everyone laughs at you and your pathetic project.

Re:Major Roadblock to using Mozilla

[Anonymous Coward]

Then use netscape it has a spellchecker you cunt licker. Use netscape and shut up!

Re:Personal CSS

[Anonymous Coward]

Listen you fucking asshole, the mozilla developers spend hours working on this everyday and just give it away, so who the fuck are you to critiscize it you big asshole. Instead of whining like a little bitch why don't you either write something better or use something else ok dick. The mozilla developers are to important to listen to silly whining from little peons like you. boohoo, it's to hard to use on my laptop, why don't you just shut up, no one wants to hear your shit ok fucker. boohoo for you and your shitty laptop, it works fine on mine. If you cna't handle it use something like konqueror or internet explorer, hopefully those will be simple enough for a brain damaged cry baby like yourself.

Educated people don't need spelling checkers.

[Chemisor]

If you habitually misspell words in your e-mail
messages, the problem is likely to lie with your
education rather than the software. Inclusion of
software crutches for a wetware problem only
makes the latter worse.

bottom line

[Anonymous Coward]

The bottom line is: mozilla sucks, always has, always will. End of story.