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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. 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...

  2. 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 Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  3. 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

  4. 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