Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug

Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug 219

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @08:42AM from the does-chimera-ssl-hanging-count-as-a-bug dept.

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.)"

Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug

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Moz 1.0? What about Netscape 1.0? (Score:3, Funny)

by eMilkshake ( 131623 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @08:47AM (#4598628) Homepage

I believe Netscape 1.0 would be worth more than Moz 1.0 -- that's what I'd rather have.
<old timer mode>I remember Netscape .9, and wondering if it would ever reach 1.0. We'd say, what more could 1.0 do -- it's such a revolution!</otm>

Worth (Score:1, Funny)

by Klerck ( 213193 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @08:48AM (#4598631) Homepage

Yep, I'm selling these IE1.0 CDs on ebay and making a fortune! (Off the tech support charges that is)

Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:4, Funny)

by TheMidget ( 512188 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @08:49AM (#4598634)

It's more than 2^16, which proves that the mozilla project's bug tracking code is able to deal with numbers that large. Unlike Micro$oft, which never have more than 65535 open bugs, because else the counter overflows...

Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @08:50AM (#4598636)

Well, the entire Windows2000 operating system only had 65,000 bugs when it shipped. So I guess Microsoft programmers really ARE better than Mozilla programmers. 200,000 bugs? Yikes! Obviously with IE being an integrated part of Windows it has much less than 65,000 bugs therefore IE is better than Mozilla right? :-)

Bug, glitch, style issue... (Score:2, Funny)

by melonman ( 608440 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @08:54AM (#4598658) Journal

Am I the only person who thinks that counting bugs, all bugs, any bugs, is a bit meaningless? I mean, 1,000 bugs like 'left margin on submit buttons is 1 px too narrow on some displays' worry me less than 1 bug like 'all your credit card details will be posted on 500 weblogs around the world'. What we need here is the bug equivalent of the Beaufort Wind Scale, where a 'light breeze' bug could almost be called an endearing quirk, and a 'hurricane' bug is likely to trash your hard disc...

Bah! (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @08:55AM (#4598662)

Everybody knows that Mozilla hasn't any bu

Re:I love mozilla (Score:2, Funny)

by yatest5 ( 455123 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @08:56AM (#4598669) Homepage

most of bugs in bugzilla aren't real 'bugs', as in code flaws, but rather wishes for enhancement / policies.

Yeah I'd like it to load in less than a week and use less that 128Mb to view 'HelloWorld.html'.

;-).

Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:2, Funny)

by Zocalo ( 252965 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @08:58AM (#4598677) Homepage

Windows 2000 was however rumoured to have shipped with roughly 65000 unresolved bugs.
<OLDJOKE>It actually shipped with far more than that, but Microsoft's bug tracking system itself had a bug whereby it couldn't handle more than 65,535 bugs.<\OLDJOKE>

Re:How about IE? (Score:1, Funny)

by Vilim ( 615798 ) writes: <ryan.jabberwock@ca> on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @09:02AM (#4598696) Homepage

I tends not to have small bugs (ie renders pages a tiny bit incorrectly) it tends to have HUGE bugs (ie you credit card numbers were posted on a public forum)

if THAT is considered news... (Score:5, Funny)

by Frac ( 27516 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @09:02AM (#4598699)

Competiton: Slashdot's 10,000,000th Typo
Posted by CmdrTaco on 08:00 AM November 5th, 2002
from the VA's-lowered-budget-can't-afford-spellcheckers dept.
CmdrTaco writes "Slashdot is about to see its 10,000,000th typo. Tis is the 9,999,999th one. Not terribly exciting in itself, but we're running a competition to guess the exact date and time that the slashdot hoard will notice the milestone-breaking spelling mistake. The prize is a poster-size copy of Mrs. Malda's revealing low-cut shot [hemos.net]." The typo will show up anytime now - good lukc everyone!

Re:if THAT is considered news... (Score:3, Funny)

by sirinek ( 41507 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @09:08AM (#4598723) Homepage Journal

Well, if you want to get technical, you did it with "hoard". Although that is a correct spelling of a word, you probably meant "horde". :)

siri

Other news... (Score:3, Funny)

by Kj0n ( 245572 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @09:17AM (#4598756)

A bug has been discovered in Bugzilla, which caused it to count every reported bug 5 times. This brings the total number of reported bugs in BugZilla to 83240.

Re:Bugzilla... (Score:2, Funny)

by Sn4xx0r ( 613157 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @09:23AM (#4598779) Homepage

Let's imagine a situation. Someone went to a pr0n site, and Mozilla crashed. You really think they will submit the URL?
Why not? Afraid that Asa might backtrace you by the data in the crashdump, and call your wife?
Just report the damn URL, give the developers something to enjoy. Or is your "someone" underage, maybe?

As soon as people read Slashdot this morning... (Score:2, Funny)

by ari_j ( 90255 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @09:25AM (#4598790)

I doubt it'll last long if Slashdot's users care enough to compete - just don't Slashdot the bug reporting page.

Bad Journalism (Score:3, Funny)

by afra242 ( 465406 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @09:25AM (#4598795)

(NOTE: Although almost 200,000 bugs have been reported, there are not - and have not been - that many bugs in Mozilla.)"

Reminds me of some awful news stations around here:

Although only 300 people died in the earthquake, it could have been worst.

So the prize is... (Score:2, Funny)

by BluBrick ( 1924 ) writes: <blubrick@ g m a i l.com> on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @09:39AM (#4598851) Homepage

...buggy software?

Include me out!

(C'mon, I get it, really I do ;)

Re:if THAT is considered news... (Score:4, Funny)

by Captain Large Face ( 559804 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @09:46AM (#4598883) Homepage

10,000,000th since when? Oh wait, that's gotta be since the beginning of November, right?

Re:Moz 1.0? What about Netscape 1.0? (Score:3, Funny)

by Jugalator ( 259273 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @09:53AM (#4598941) Journal

What about Windows 1.01 [net2000.com.pl] (or here [386.bajo.pl], here [pandora.be] or here [mmhart.com]?

Did someone ask for Netscape 0.9 beta [capnwacky.com] (including a review - haha!)

I feel bad for direct linking, but hey, Windows is only 700K and Netscape around 300K. :-)

I'm running this competition... (Score:5, Funny)

by Gerv ( 15179 ) writes: <gerv@geWELTYrv.net minus author> on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @10:01AM (#4598976) Homepage

...and at about 12.30pm GMT, my inbox was suddenly deluged with entries. Even without looking, I knew why that would be... :-)

Gerv

Re:A dumb idea (Score:5, Funny)

by Gerv ( 15179 ) writes: <gerv@geWELTYrv.net minus author> on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @10:03AM (#4598990) Homepage

Given that we get 300+ bug reports a day, you would have to file a _lot_ of fake bug reports to influence the result. And, after about 5 fake bug reports, I would find you and LART your ass. :-)

Gerv

My guess! (Score:2, Funny)

by rocjoe71 ( 545053 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @10:13AM (#4599041) Homepage

Umm... 1993! Oh no wait, that's Microsoft, you wanted Mozilla.

200,000? (Score:2, Funny)

by sharkey ( 16670 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @11:15AM (#4599441)

Is that when it catches up to the Internet Explorer bug count?

Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:2, Funny)

by Jucius Maximus ( 229128 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @11:27AM (#4599511) Journal

"It's more than 2^16, which proves that the mozilla project's bug tracking code is able to deal with numbers that large. Unlike Micro$oft, which never have more than 65535 open bugs, because else the counter overflows..."
I guess this proves that they are using excel as a bug tracking database -- it can only suppot 2^16 rows.

Re:Brilliant pre-emptive strike, guys! (Score:3, Funny)

by ceejayoz ( 567949 ) writes: <cj@ceejayoz.com> on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @11:41AM (#4599583) Homepage Journal

Considering that Mozilla 1.1 is out and Mozilla 1.2 beta is out, you might as well complain about bugs in IE 1.0 while you're at it.

Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:2, Funny)

by Citizen of Earth ( 569446 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @12:15PM (#4599819)

a lot of these 'bugs' were in pre-1.0 versions - which never see the light of day in commercial software

Wha? In commercial software, pre-1.0 beta releases are called "1.0" up to "2000".

Re:200,000? (Score:1, Funny)

by stevenp ( 610846 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @12:20PM (#4599871)

By that time (June 5-th 2003), IE will be much further AND if MS opens the IE API (as the settlement has set) AND the people see the garbage inside, then there is no chance that Mozilla can catch in terms of bug numbers.

Oh, I forgot, IE has no bug database :(

Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:3, Funny)

by Citizen of Earth ( 569446 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @12:21PM (#4599872)

<OLDJOKE>...<\OLDJOKE>

Parse error: Expecting </OLDJOKE> but found <\OLDJOKE> instead.
Suggested action: Upgrade to MS-XML 2.2.

aol v. mozilla cds. (Score:3, Funny)

by MadLibs ( 603254 ) writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @03:10PM (#4600877)

The prize is a Mozilla 1.0 CD that might actually be worth something one day
greeeeeeaaaat. so that one cd can hang around with my 200,000 AOL cds i have floating around.....

Re:200,000? Is that all!? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 05, 2002 @03:28PM (#4601040)

Your running the Windows version of Mozilla, aren't you?

Those aren't Mozilla bugs =)

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Moz 1.0? What about Netscape 1.0? (Score:3, Funny)

Worth (Score:1, Funny)

Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:1, Funny)

Bug, glitch, style issue... (Score:2, Funny)

Bah! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I love mozilla (Score:2, Funny)

Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:How about IE? (Score:1, Funny)

if THAT is considered news... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:if THAT is considered news... (Score:3, Funny)

Other news... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Bugzilla... (Score:2, Funny)

As soon as people read Slashdot this morning... (Score:2, Funny)

Bad Journalism (Score:3, Funny)

So the prize is... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:if THAT is considered news... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Moz 1.0? What about Netscape 1.0? (Score:3, Funny)

I'm running this competition... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:A dumb idea (Score:5, Funny)

My guess! (Score:2, Funny)

200,000? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Brilliant pre-emptive strike, guys! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:200,000? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:3, Funny)

aol v. mozilla cds. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:200,000? Is that all!? (Score:1, Funny)

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