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Moving towards Mozilla 1.0

Posted by michael on from the just-release-it-already dept.

fluedke writes "The latest Mozilla CVS identifies itself as "Mozilla 1.0". It looks like this source will become the official 1.0 within the next days. Read the news posting here." And if you're one of the missing hackers, speak up.

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  1. Bugzilla.mozilla.org by Penguinoflight · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you feel a sudden urge to help now that the project is entering it's final stages, checkout bugzilla.mozilla.org. You can help troubleshoot other bugs by trying to replicate, and figure out if there are browser problems, or webpage problems. You have to be a member, but the form is short.

    Check out http://bugzilla.mozilla.org

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    1. Re:Bugzilla.mozilla.org by Swaffs · · Score: 4, Informative

      My experience has been that those on bugzilla want to correct bugs, not hide or deny them. If you can reproduce it well, and document that well, others will test for it, and assuming its a real bug and not your problem, they will confirm it as a bug. All submissions i've made have been taken seriously.

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    2. Re:Bugzilla.mozilla.org by dbarclay10 · · Score: 4, Informative

      It depends.

      All the reports I've submitted have been dealt with seriously. Sometimes that means, "sorry, we're not going to fix this for a while." That's understandable, they need to prioritise.

      Sometimes, the report is closed because it's not a bug - a particular thing behaves in a way I'm unhappy with, but which most people would prefer over the alternative I suggest.

      Most times, though, the bugs are just dealt with. I've never submitted a bug report which didn't get a reply of _some_ form within a few days.

      This is just in my experience. But I have to read a lot of bug reports myself (for Debian), and I gotta tell you, there is NOTHING more frustrating than somebody filing a bug report, saying "it doesn't work."

      WHAT doesn't work? In what way does it not work? How would you expect it to work?

      The more serious you are, the more serious you'll be taken.

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  2. What will be special about 1.0 by jonasj · · Score: 5, Informative

    The main change is that many APIs (Application Programming Interface) have been frozen, which means that you can now create skins, plugins, add-ons, XUL applications, applications which embed Mozilla's layout engine Gecko, etc., which will work with all future Mozilla 1.x releases. In the past, it wasn't unusual for, say, skins developed for Mozilla 0.x to break as soon as Mozilla 0.y was released.

    Of course 1.0 is also more stable and polished than 0.9.9, just like 0.9.9 was more polished and stable than 0.9.8 and so forth, but the main thing is the API freeze.

    See also the Mozilla 1.0 Manifesto.

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