Max Kanat-Alexander

So, today (or tomorrow, depending on your timezone) is the 10th anniversary of the first Bugzilla code checkin. That would be the first time that Bugzilla's code was ever put into Mozilla's CVS repository. We can count this as the first time that Bugzilla really "existed" as a publicly-accessible, open-source project, though we have an even more important anniversary coming up on Sept 19 (the 10th anniversary of our first open-source release, Bugzilla 2.0).

Ten years is an incredible milestone for an open-source project. There actually aren't that many open-source projects that can say they are ten years old, outside of BSD, GNU, Linux, and Mozilla itself.

I'm sure that justdave will write more about it, but I did have a few thoughts about it. ( Read more... )