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

Awesome

[Botchka]

I used Mozilla and reported what I thought was a bug. I was surprised and elated by the response that I got in order to try to fix it. Not that this will be a terribly exciting post for other /.ers but that was my experience. However, I want to like Mozilla....really I do.

How does this compare to other apps?

[Pike65]

This may be me just being hideously misinformed, but I have no idea what to expect for a project of this size? I mean it does sound like a helluva lot . . .

Mind you, I suppose it's better they all get reported and fixed than ignored until someone independant BugTraqs your ass.

Re:How does this compare to other apps?

[Jeppe Salvesen]

Hmm. Mozilla is a ground-breaking project using cutting-edge technology (or it was cutting-edge when it was started). I think that there will be a lot of software engineering papers on the Mozilla processs in the future. It is a bold project, and I believe it has succeeded because of persistence and eye-ball-count rather than good planning and solid methodology.

Then again, a lot of developers had a lot of fun and AOL Time Warner footed the bill, so who are we to complain (except that IE got a monopoly during the years of development)?

What about IE?

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder how many bugs would have been found in Internet Explorer? IE being a much more mature browser, you'd imagine it would have had many more bugs than this reported. I suppose while MS keeps all it's work behind closed doors, we'll never know the answer.

Let's just hope that one day mozilla can be as good as IE.

Not many bugs, eh?

[Munra]

So what's all this about: Mozilla riddled with security holes.

Even with the "bugs", I still love Mozilla, mind :)

estimation

[mirko]

According to the whois database :
Record created on 24-Jan-1998.

So, 1747 days have gone since this creation (I assume nobody could file bugs on mozilla.org before this date).

We now have 178,325 bugs, so the average is 102 bugs per day.

So, the next 21,675 bugs will be files in approximately 212 days, making the 200kth bug being filed around June 5th...

Now of course, we could assume that as Mozilla becomes stabler and stabler, the filings should now slow down logarithmically, making the filing so late that we'll have have switched to Phoenix 4.0+gno/kMutt in the meantime...

But why expecting a CD when we have apt-get ? ;-)

How, yes : because it would not be the 1.0 version but rather a subsequent one.

circumventing the /. effect

[Masami Eiri]

and I quote "Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled." Looks like someone has the right idea.

Re:I love mozilla

[mazur]

In all the years I have used mozilla I have encountered few bugs. I am suprised there are so many.

I'm not; it's part of human nature. There are even people, who will find fault with the weather, when it's perfect, so why should 200.000 bug reports surprise anyone? And don't forget, lots of those may be a case of PEBKAC.

Stefan.