Re: coverity code checker in Extras

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 19:56 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
>> Hiyas,
>>
>> On Wednesday 30 August 2006 19:29, Max Spevack wrote:
>>> The folks over at Coverity have offered to allow Fedora Extras to use
>>> their services, and would like a yes or no.  Rather than make this
>>> decision in a vacuum, I believe that the Fedora Extras Steering Committee
>>> has earned the right to make this decision for themselves.
>> what is it really, what is going to happen if we accept their offer? Will 
>> every package in Extras be scanned?
> 
> Packages built in Extras would be run through the Coverity source
> checker tools, and the results would be available to the package
> maintainer through a web-based reports system.
> 

That would be very, very cool. Now if they want an ubercool award, they
should opensource coverty :)

Regards,

Hans