Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Launch Day In Retrospect

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine is linking to a weblog posting by Mitchell Baker, mozilla.org's Chief Lizard Wrangler and President of the Mozilla Foundation, in which she gives an insight into what happened at the Mozilla Foundation's offices on November 9th 2004: the day that Mozilla Firefox 1.0 was released. The account is very much people-based and therefore adds a human side to Mozilla development and allows you to get an idea about the people behind Firefox (most of whom, of course, were also the people behind Netscape previously). A must-read for all fans of servers going down an hour before a major release!"

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Blogs in open-source as a way of communication

[vladd_rom]

I think it's great that this kind of phenomenen starts to happen in open source. Asa Dotzler is trilled as well. According to this, he thought "blogs would become a more important tool in Mozilla communications, offering a new level of insight and transparency".

Re:Blogs in open-source as a way of communication

[NamShubCMX]

I agree. Although many people see blogs as narcissic, useless ramblings, I think developers' blog, at least those where they talk about the software more than about their personal lives, are really fun to read to know what happens with the dev and their code between the changelogs :) I like to read PlanetKDE, PlanetGnome and the various mozilla-related blogs, for example.

Geek reality-TV? :P