It’s that time again! :-) The bugzilla.mozilla.org bug database will soon hit another major milestone and, as is traditional, I’m running a sweepstake on exactly when that will be.
So please email me using this link, filling in the date and time you think bug 400,000 will be filed. As the link suggests, your entry should be on the first line of your email, and formatted as follows:
2007-06-05 01:23:45 bugzilla-id@example.com
All times are in ZST (‘Zilla Standard Time, a.k.a. Pacific Time, as displayed in Bugzilla timestamps), and the email address must be your Bugzilla ID. If you prefer to be contacted on a different address, add that as well, on the end of the same line in brackets. We have ample graphs and charts (requires editbugs) to help you with your assessment.
This is a Mozilla community event. To keep it that way, entrants must have a Bugzilla account on bugzilla.mozilla.org created before the end of February 2007, and which has done something useful in the past six months. I’ll check those who are closest, and keep discarding entries until I find one which meets these criteria. Therefore, there’s no point posting this to Slashdot or any other non-Mozilla-focussed news source.
The judge’s decision is final, and any funny business regarding the filing of bugs on or around the 400,000 mark will be frowned upon. The closing date for entries is midday ZST on Monday 23rd April.
The winner and two runners-up will get some Mozilla or Firefox merchandise. Things may change, but we currently plan to give the winner a Firefox Fathead – a copy of the logo over a metre across to put on your wall, not currently available in the store. 2nd and 3rd will get a laptop bag, a fleece or something of that nature.
You’re celebrating 400,000 bug reports? Weird.
Why weird? It would only be weird if the number of bug reports were in some way related to the bugginess of the product. And a moment’s thought will tell you that this is clearly not the case. If it were true, then Mozilla would have been least buggy on the day it was released, and would have been getting steadily buggier ever since. And while some people might jokingly agree with that, it’s clearly false. :-)
Granted that most bug reports do not report unique bugs in Firefox, and many do not even report bugs, I’m still trying to figure out why the celebration. Celebrating duplicates? Unconfirmed bugs? Server capacity?
Wait! I get it. Involvement by volunteers. A validation of the open-source concept. Great!
While we’re at it, here’s a plug for the recent addition of more people authorized to do checkins.
I’m afraid I didn’t sound sufficiently grateful, and I can’t edit the darned post. The concept of seeming celebrate bugs seemed odd at first, but if your job is maintaining bug reports, well, that’s what’s important.
I can only add that I think Bugzilla is a darned good product, and it has served well. Congratulations on a job well done!
This could be the only website that **celebrates** a bug, really.
I prefer to keep my celebration to the day that this webpage (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=Firefox&content=) doesn’t return 11000 (yes, 11000) bug reports :).
Bugzilla 400,000 Bug Sweepstake Results
Milestone bugzilla.mozilla.org bug 400,000 was filed on 2007-10-16 at 05:38 ZST by long-time Mozilla contributor ‘timeless’. Again. Of all the entrants in the 400,000 bug sweepstake, the person who guessed closest was Christian Schmidt, who guessed 200…
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