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Posts from May, 2011
Why we need to Radically Change Bugzilla, Part 2
Syndicator
First, let me clarify a few things. By “End-User Bugzilla” and “Developer Bugzilla” I didn’t mean two totally separate Bugzilla installs. While that could be made to work, there are much easier ways to go about it that are much better. I will continue to call it “End-User Bugzilla” for lack of a better term 
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ISP easily remove the burden of configuring email clients
Ludovic Hirlimann
As some of you know, I spend a good deal of my day reading bug comments , replying to some, trying to understand why the user is seeing a bug and I’m not. Since the release of Thunderbird 3.0 (actually… Continue reading
Why we need to Radically Change Bugzilla, Part 1
Syndicator
Since April 7th, 1998, bugzilla.mozilla.org has served Mozilla. Over 657,000 Bugs have been filed in the multiple products and components covered in the vast database. Over these 13+ years, Bugzilla’s users have been divided into two groups. End-users: Those people who have found what they think is a bug in a Mozilla product. These may 
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Status Update: 2011.20
Anthony Hughes
The following is a summary of my contributions to the Mozilla project for the week ending Sunday May 15th, 2011. Accomplishments Firefox Aurora Bugday: link Progress made with testing Channel Switcher for Firefox Beta merge Progress made with splitting Mozmill tests Resolved Bugs no bugs resolved What’s Next More Firefox and Channel Switcher related testing! […] Continue reading
Results of the Firefox Aurora Bugday
Anthony Hughes
Last Friday we held a bugday for UNCONFIRMED and FIXED bugs in Firefox Aurora in preparation for the upcoming merge to Beta. Due to the efforts of our awesome community, we were able to triage 80 bugs. Here are some … Continue reading
Linguistics and the Open Web
Gordon P. Hemsley
Last Saturday, I gave a talk entitled Linguistics and the Open Web at HULLS 2011, the first-annual Hunter [College] Undergraduate Linguistics and Language Studies Conference, organized by the Hunter College Linguistics Club. My talk kicked off the event, at which undergraduate students presented their research. (I later joked that it perhaps should have been called […]
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Miramar …
Ludovic Hirlimann
As of today we are starting a Full functional test for what will become Thunderbird 3.3. The formal testing event will end in three days. All the major new visible feature have landed as we froze strings last week. Now… Continue reading
Firefox Bug Versions
Syndicator
As of tonight, all UNCO Firefox:General bugs have been marked with the correct version field. There are approx 50 bugs that did not have the original Build ID, so they are still marked as Unspecified. I was able to clear out around ~1800-2000 bugs that had the Build ID, just had never been marked against 
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Reminder: Firefox Aurora Bugday tomorrow!
Anthony Hughes
This is a reminder that tomorrow, May 13th, we will be going through some Firefox bugs and we need your help! We’ll be online from 8am to 5pm PDT trying to confirm some recently filed bugs and verifying some recently … Continue reading