Juan J. MartÃnez used to talk here about Open Source and Other Things.
This is a blog in archive mode, you can read new posts at en_GB@blog
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From BrouserID website.
It needs a better website design, please. Besides that stating that is an open source experiment is basically a call so nobody treats the idea seriously (it’s an experiment after all).
I’m sceptical (at best).
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From Christopher Blizzard’s timeline.
He’s director of developer relations at Mozilla (aka Director of Evangelism at Mozilla Corporation). Great quote.
This is a very nice videocast by Johnathan Nightingale, and there’s more info (and a Vimeo video) in his blog post: Bugzilla for Humans.
Bugtracking is an important part of every open source project (well, I would say that it’s important to any software project), and I believe it’s the most nasty part of the community management too.
I have to deal with Bugzilla when I file a bug in the Fedora bugtracking system and the Gnome bugtracking system, and I agree with Johnathan that Bugzilla is scary and against the poor humans trying to file a bug. It’s even cruel, not only you found a disgusting bug, but when you want to contribute to fix it… you have to face Bugzilla!
The videocast it’s worth watching, meanwhile Bugzilla doesn’t turn into something more friendly.
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From Firefox 3.5 RC2 Linux vs Windows Performance by Andrew M. Lawrence.
This is not the first time I read a rant about Mozilla Foundation support policy for Firefox: windows version goes first (ie. Firefox 3 will release with system-killing performance problem).
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QMO quality.mozilla.org (alpha).
It’s very interesting. Having a formal Quality Assurance team is very often the weak point of a Open Source project, and seems Mozilla it’s doing it in the right way.
There are some projects worth checking, and one of them is Litmus (an integrated testcase management tool to help the casual tester to help Mozilla).
