Tuesday November 06, 2007 Humorous Bugs
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I remember that when I first moved from Australia to the Bay Area,
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I wasn't so thick skinned in those days, and I initially took it personally. But then a few weeks later, I met the bug submitter for the first time and saw what a complete tosspot he was, and started to view it differently. I could see the humor in it.
Earlier this evening, while I was googling, looking for web pages describing how to use two dimensional Javascript arrays, I accidentally stumbled over a pointer to a couple of funny Mozilla bugs. After reading a few of the comments on these bugs, I found others. Here are some of them.
- 95849: Lack of Sex is interfering with my ability to triage bugs.
- 122411: Mozilla does not have a kitchen sink.
- 226482: Where did the kitchensink go ?
- 330884: When different users on one system choose to save or not save passwords for sites, any other user can see sites they not only saved passwords for but can also see what other users have been saving/never saving passwords for.
- 360323: Firefox development conflicting with my environment.
This is great. Where else can dozens of nerds find a legitimate place such as this for attempting humor. It's also clear that some of these people have way too much time on their hands.
I'm sure there are a few lurking in the GNOME bug database as well. If it would stay up long enough, I'd try to find them.
And now we got a brand new bug database for OpenSolaris. Bug numbers are still in the low triple digits. Maybe it's time to file some worthy funny entries there.
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As a start for your collection:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137526
Posted by Kai Willadsen on November 07, 2007 at 12:01 AM PST #
95849 is embarrassing from the get-go. 330884 is embarrassing for the idiots commenting on it. Geek humour doesn't have to be at the level of fourteen-year-old boys. I'm still at a loss as to why Bugzilla didn't develop easily-usable crap removal facilities years ago; to my knowledge Gerv still has to go in and hand-remove spam from individual bugs.
- Chris
Posted by Chris Cunningham on November 07, 2007 at 12:49 AM PST #
"I'm still at a loss as to why Bugzilla didn't develop easily-usable crap removal facilities years ago": Perhaps because they knew that, much like the Pied Piper, Digg would eventually come along and draw those sorts of commenters away from Bugzilla? ;-)
The kitchen sink is cool.
Posted by joanie on November 07, 2007 at 07:30 AM PST #
Here's the list I've accumulated over the years I've been involved with the project, for what it's worth. Apologies for the long link, but your form doesn't accept anything HTMLish, so I can't make it any shorter.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46647%2C50349%2C51015%2C52094%2C59214%2C60455%2C82839%2C95849%2C98491%2C108941%2C125287%2C209360%2C267209%2C72950%2C347226%2C347938%2C383049%2C384587
Posted by Jeff Walden on November 07, 2007 at 12:27 PM PST #
@Jeff: Are you familiar with tinyurl.com?
http://tinyurl.com/34yssp
Posted by Joanie on November 07, 2007 at 01:55 PM PST #
Ah, yes, that would have been the obvious solution, wouldn't it? :-) It's still nice to be able to see where a link goes, tho (which you can't do with the URL-snipping sites), so I'd still have preferred an HTML solution.
Posted by Jeff Walden on November 07, 2007 at 02:42 PM PST #
Thanks Jeff (and everyone else).
We used to be able to use HTML when writing
comments, then the PowersThatBe(TM) took it
away as it was a security risk (I don't remember
the exact details).
Long links are fine (I can live with it scrawling
all over the right hand column).
Posted by Rich Burridge on November 07, 2007 at 02:52 PM PST #
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100000
and we had lots of fun at guadec with this one:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455415
Posted by andre klapper on November 07, 2007 at 08:03 PM PST #
There is this old GIMP bug in which someone wanted to go beyond the concept of layer masks, selection masks, etc.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10686
Posted by Raphaël Quinet on November 08, 2007 at 01:24 AM PST #