Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug 219
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.)"
Awesome (Score:2, Interesting)
How does this compare to other apps? (Score:3, Interesting)
Mind you, I suppose it's better they all get reported and fixed than ignored until someone independant BugTraqs your ass.
What about IE? (Score:1, Interesting)
Let's just hope that one day mozilla can be as good as IE.
Not many bugs, eh? (Score:3, Interesting)
Even with the "bugs", I still love Mozilla, mind
Re:How does this compare to other apps? (Score:3, Interesting)
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)?
estimation (Score:5, Interesting)
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 (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:I love mozilla (Score:2, Interesting)
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 [astrian.net].
Stefan.