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2008 Mozilla Summit Affected By Rock Slide

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the even-nature-says-firefox-rocks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The recently concluded 2008 Mozilla Summit, held in Whistler, Canada, was impacted by a rock slide that cut off the main highway between Whistler and Vancouver, where most attendees planned to depart via airplane. In true open-source fashion, summit attendees collaborated on a solution, opening a Bugzilla bug (severity: "blocker"), posting crash dumps, and proposing solutions, including chartering a flight (which would land first in TRUNK, then BRANCH). Eventually, attendees settled on a workaround which seems to have been successful. For next year's summit, organizers might want to consider a location with more redundancy."

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  1. Whistler? by segedunum · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wasn't that where some Microsoft people used to meet, and wasn't that a codename of a version of Windows?

    Hmmmmmmmmmm.

    *Strokes chin in style of Dr. Evil*

    1. Re:Whistler? by i+kan+reed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sources report seeing a high velocity chair strike the mountainside moments before the conference.

  2. We are confident to say... by TuringTest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mozilla Summit rocks!

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    1. Re:We are confident to say... by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

      yah, but how many attendees got stoned?

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  3. Natural disaster.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...or an attack from Microsoft's ultra high tech assault geek ninja squad, aimed at derailing the conference?

    I think any sane person already knows the answer.

  4. bah by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    if this a TRUE bugzilla ticket, it would be closed ("I'm not blocked in") or ignored for years.

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  5. Interesting Vista's by Fishead · · Score: 5, Funny

    That highway is quite spectacular, with some interesting vista's along the way. Unfortunately, some of those vista's were poorly designed. The foundation of this particular one was unstable from the beginning, and looks to have crashed Mozilla. Personally, I think they should do away with the vista's and focus on stability and long term viability.

  6. Really peeps... by Richard_at_work · · Score: 4, Funny

    This isn't something you want women to read :)

  7. MLM by iamapizza · · Score: 5, Funny

    Couldn't they just use Microsoft LiveMeeting to hold their summit?

    I should probably hide right now.

    Sorry.

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  8. WONTFIX by Jay+L · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess you missed comment #35:

    Since this bug effects only a small portion of Firefox users, proposing this as
    WONTFIX.

    Perhaps interested parties can create an extension?

    Robert Accettura wins that bug.

  9. oh sure by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Typical slashbot; faced with massive memory leaks and crashes in Mozilla, you find a way to blame Vista.