Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug

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.)"

Comments

Re:Bugzilla...

[Sn4xx0r]

At the risk of feeding:

For crashes, Mozilla has the talkback feature. If Mozilla crashes, and it hardly ever does anymore, all you need to do is type the url you visited, and click send. That's it.

For other bugs: people will, and do, report them if they are really annoyed with a bug and want to see it fixed. Even if only one in a thousand take the time to file a bugreport you'd still have a pretty large number.

Re:Not many bugs, eh?

[mccalli]

The Register article refers to Mozilla 1.0 and 1.0.1, not the current versions.

Actually, I think one bug mentioned there was supposed to apply to current versions.

Cheers,
Ian

Severity

[yerricde]

What we need here is the bug equivalent of the Beaufort Wind Scale

Each Bugzilla entry carries a "severity" anywhere from "enhancement" (request for additional functionality) to "trivial" (slight misalignment of text in form pushbuttons) to "minor" to "normal" to "major" to "critical" (usually a crash or data loss) to "blocker" (a build fails smoketests).

Re:Severity

[DeadSea]

• 26.3% (52,618) of the 200,000 have been marked as duplicates of other bugs.
• 11.6% (23,370) of the 200,000 have been marked as not reproducable (not a bug, it works for me)
• 2.6% (5267) of the 200,000 have not yet been confirmed (likely to be dups on not reproducable
• Only 65159 unique, verifiable bugs have been reported against the browser (as opposed to bugzilla, mail/news, and other components that bugzilla tracks).
• • 2.8% (1851) of those 65159 bugs are/were blockers
  • 8.4% (5528) of those 65159 bugs are/were critical
  • 10.2% (6711) of those 65159 bugs are/were major
  • 64.1% (41803) of those 65159 bugs are/were normal
  • 4.9% (3256) of those 65159 bugs are/were minor
  • 2.2% (1401) of those 65159 bugs are/were trivial
  • 7.1% (4609) of those 65159 bugs are/were enhancment

Re:Severity

[DeadSea]

Actually another 10,224 of those 65,159 were marked as INVALID which I believe is another way of saying "not a bug". So take those stats down a bit more.

Re:Only 200,000?

[DrXym]

Erm, it doesn't have 200,000 bugs right now, that is for its entire lifetime, for the last 3 years. If you want to see how many there are now, open http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/reports.cgi (not via Slashdot) and find out. I will save you the trouble and tell you there are 28992 open bugs. Compare that the IE / Windows figures - oops you can't because they are hidden. Who knows what bugs are in your operating system?

That figure represents all feature work, enhancements, dupes, metabugs, Chimera, CCK. Mozilla.org, Bugzilla (bugs about Bugzilla), internationalization, platform specific, mail/news, browser, embedding, chrome, documentation and actual bugs in existence. The number of genuine bugs of any importance in the browser is likely to be a small fraction of the total.

Please don't spam the database

[Gerv]

Given some of the above comments, this needs saying. This is a fun contest, and the prize is small. Anyone who tries to spam the database in any way will only mean that we can't have this fun any more. So please don't. And it won't work anyway, because we'll notice and stop you.

If you have an automatic bug creation script, please point it at Landfill, the Bugzilla test installation, which needs all the test bugs it can get :-)

Gerv