On Tue, 03 Jul 2001 11:34:03 +0200 esteemed Andreas Franke did hold forth
thusly:
> Does this mean that the engineers have worked hard to introduce
> more bugs so that there are twice as many bugs now? Or is the
> discovery rate of existing bugs several times higher than the
> bug fix rate?
> Or was the estimate just too optimistic, by a factor of at least three?
> (I suppose it's the last one.)
Yes, its the last one. I've written lots of programs where I underestimated
how long it would take and then my manager reduced my estimate and then the
next level up reduced it again. Happens all the time.
> The point is that if there is going to be at least another year before the
> mozilla 1.0 release, then it's simply stupid to refuse any new features
> from now on, because not everyone can fix standards compliance bugs.
That is what really bothers me about the rush to Moz 1.0. I'm afraid the
effect will be to slow development.
> (Of course, it would be nice if more people were helping with them.)
If Moz 1.0 attracts more developers then it will be worth it. Otherwise I
hardly see the point of a Moz 1.0 release this year.
