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.)"

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[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.