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Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the does-chimera-ssl-hanging-count-as-a-bug dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine is reporting that Mozilla's 200,000th bug will soon be reported. Not terribly exciting in itself, but they're running a competition to guess the exact date and time that the bug will be reported to Bugzilla, Mozilla's bug reporting tool. The prize is a Mozilla 1.0 CD that might actually be worth something one day. Anyone can enter, so let's see if we can have a Slashdot winner (we can all share in the glory)! To help you, they're up to 178,325 and 51 bugs have been filled today. (NOTE: Although almost 200,000 bugs have been reported, there are not - and have not been - that many bugs in Mozilla.)"

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  1. Moz 1.0? What about Netscape 1.0? by eMilkshake · · Score: 3, Funny
    I believe Netscape 1.0 would be worth more than Moz 1.0 -- that's what I'd rather have.

    <old timer mode>I remember Netscape .9, and wondering if it would ever reach 1.0. We'd say, what more could 1.0 do -- it's such a revolution!</otm>

    1. Re:Moz 1.0? What about Netscape 1.0? by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

      What about Windows 1.01 (or here, here or here?

      Did someone ask for Netscape 0.9 beta (including a review - haha!)

      I feel bad for direct linking, but hey, Windows is only 700K and Netscape around 300K. :-)

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  2. Worth by Klerck · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yep, I'm selling these IE1.0 CDs on ebay and making a fortune! (Off the tech support charges that is)

  3. Re:How does this compare to other apps? by TheMidget · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's more than 2^16, which proves that the mozilla project's bug tracking code is able to deal with numbers that large. Unlike Micro$oft, which never have more than 65535 open bugs, because else the counter overflows...

  4. Re:How does this compare to other apps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, the entire Windows2000 operating system only had 65,000 bugs when it shipped. So I guess Microsoft programmers really ARE better than Mozilla programmers. 200,000 bugs? Yikes! Obviously with IE being an integrated part of Windows it has much less than 65,000 bugs therefore IE is better than Mozilla right? :-)

  5. Bug, glitch, style issue... by melonman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am I the only person who thinks that counting bugs, all bugs, any bugs, is a bit meaningless? I mean, 1,000 bugs like 'left margin on submit buttons is 1 px too narrow on some displays' worry me less than 1 bug like 'all your credit card details will be posted on 500 weblogs around the world'. What we need here is the bug equivalent of the Beaufort Wind Scale, where a 'light breeze' bug could almost be called an endearing quirk, and a 'hurricane' bug is likely to trash your hard disc...

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  6. Bah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everybody knows that Mozilla hasn't any bu

  7. Re:I love mozilla by yatest5 · · Score: 2, Funny
    most of bugs in bugzilla aren't real 'bugs', as in code flaws, but rather wishes for enhancement / policies.

    Yeah I'd like it to load in less than a week and use less that 128Mb to view 'HelloWorld.html'.

    ;-).

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  8. Re:How does this compare to other apps? by Zocalo · · Score: 2, Funny
    Windows 2000 was however rumoured to have shipped with roughly 65000 unresolved bugs.

    <OLDJOKE>It actually shipped with far more than that, but Microsoft's bug tracking system itself had a bug whereby it couldn't handle more than 65,535 bugs.<\OLDJOKE>

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  9. Re:How about IE? by Vilim · · Score: 1, Funny

    I tends not to have small bugs (ie renders pages a tiny bit incorrectly) it tends to have HUGE bugs (ie you credit card numbers were posted on a public forum)

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  10. if THAT is considered news... by Frac · · Score: 5, Funny

    Competiton: Slashdot's 10,000,000th Typo
    Posted by CmdrTaco on 08:00 AM November 5th, 2002
    from the VA's-lowered-budget-can't-afford-spellcheckers dept.
    CmdrTaco writes "Slashdot is about to see its 10,000,000th typo. Tis is the 9,999,999th one. Not terribly exciting in itself, but we're running a competition to guess the exact date and time that the slashdot hoard will notice the milestone-breaking spelling mistake. The prize is a poster-size copy of Mrs. Malda's revealing low-cut shot." The typo will show up anytime now - good lukc everyone!

    1. Re:if THAT is considered news... by sirinek · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, if you want to get technical, you did it with "hoard". Although that is a correct spelling of a word, you probably meant "horde". :)

      siri

    2. Re:if THAT is considered news... by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 4, Funny

      10,000,000th since when? Oh wait, that's gotta be since the beginning of November, right?

  11. Other news... by Kj0n · · Score: 3, Funny

    A bug has been discovered in Bugzilla, which caused it to count every reported bug 5 times. This brings the total number of reported bugs in BugZilla to 83240.

  12. Re:Bugzilla... by Sn4xx0r · · Score: 2, Funny
    Let's imagine a situation. Someone went to a pr0n site, and Mozilla crashed. You really think they will submit the URL?

    Why not? Afraid that Asa might backtrace you by the data in the crashdump, and call your wife?

    Just report the damn URL, give the developers something to enjoy. Or is your "someone" underage, maybe?

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  13. As soon as people read Slashdot this morning... by ari_j · · Score: 2, Funny

    I doubt it'll last long if Slashdot's users care enough to compete - just don't Slashdot the bug reporting page.

  14. Bad Journalism by afra242 · · Score: 3, Funny
    (NOTE: Although almost 200,000 bugs have been reported, there are not - and have not been - that many bugs in Mozilla.)"


    Reminds me of some awful news stations around here:


    Although only 300 people died in the earthquake, it could have been worst.

  15. So the prize is... by BluBrick · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...buggy software?

    Include me out!

    (C'mon, I get it, really I do ;)

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  16. I'm running this competition... by Gerv · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and at about 12.30pm GMT, my inbox was suddenly deluged with entries. Even without looking, I knew why that would be... :-)

    Gerv

  17. Re:A dumb idea by Gerv · · Score: 5, Funny

    Given that we get 300+ bug reports a day, you would have to file a _lot_ of fake bug reports to influence the result. And, after about 5 fake bug reports, I would find you and LART your ass. :-)

    Gerv

  18. My guess! by rocjoe71 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umm... 1993! Oh no wait, that's Microsoft, you wanted Mozilla.

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  19. 200,000? by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that when it catches up to the Internet Explorer bug count?

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    1. Re:200,000? by stevenp · · Score: 1, Funny

      By that time (June 5-th 2003), IE will be much further AND if MS opens the IE API (as the settlement has set) AND the people see the garbage inside, then there is no chance that Mozilla can catch in terms of bug numbers.

      Oh, I forgot, IE has no bug database :(

  20. Re:How does this compare to other apps? by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 2, Funny
    "It's more than 2^16, which proves that the mozilla project's bug tracking code is able to deal with numbers that large. Unlike Micro$oft, which never have more than 65535 open bugs, because else the counter overflows..."

    I guess this proves that they are using excel as a bug tracking database -- it can only suppot 2^16 rows.

  21. Re:Brilliant pre-emptive strike, guys! by ceejayoz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Considering that Mozilla 1.1 is out and Mozilla 1.2 beta is out, you might as well complain about bugs in IE 1.0 while you're at it.

  22. Re:How does this compare to other apps? by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 2, Funny

    a lot of these 'bugs' were in pre-1.0 versions - which never see the light of day in commercial software

    Wha? In commercial software, pre-1.0 beta releases are called "1.0" up to "2000".

  23. Re:How does this compare to other apps? by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

    <OLDJOKE>...<\OLDJOKE>

    Parse error: Expecting </OLDJOKE> but found <\OLDJOKE> instead.
    Suggested action: Upgrade to MS-XML 2.2.

  24. aol v. mozilla cds. by MadLibs · · Score: 3, Funny
    The prize is a Mozilla 1.0 CD that might actually be worth something one day

    greeeeeeaaaat. so that one cd can hang around with my 200,000 AOL cds i have floating around.....

  25. Re:200,000? Is that all!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your running the Windows version of Mozilla, aren't you?

    Those aren't Mozilla bugs =)