dman84 wrote: > Chris, that is where I come in. I have a project that I'd like to start > after mozilla's 1.0 codebase is API fixed.. to then create a new bugzill > a tool.. that will help this problem. I need to learn the programming > of the XUL & XML, and probably how all the XPCOM & XPAPPS, Tools & > Widgets stuff work.. which hopefully done right, would allow this vision > I have to come to fruitation. It will greatly easy bugzilla's problem. > I would need to write specs first too. It only exists as a project > idea on paper. My current time is taken to help mozilla get to the 1.0 > status.. and to download/test as many nightlies as I can for my w2k box. > I used to work for a development company where I did a lot of beta > testing and I have a degree in CIS. Right now I have a physically > intensive labor job which pays really good, yet really wears me down.. > and cuts down my time to actually learn more about mozilla. But I am > looking for better.. testing code is by far easier than actually writing > it and fixing it without codebase knowledge. One area I think that > would be helpful, is a download file that mozilla compiles to get > everything working on a certain platform, then just telling us to > download this problem, write this here.. etc, just shy of distribution > of pay-software programs. I just dont have to time to get a machine up > and running just so I can spend forever trying to figure out how to get > it compile. >
getting mozilla to build is not that hard - given ~2G of diskspace. www.mozilla.org/.build has good instructions and prereq.'s for most any platform you want to build on
