coverity code checker in Extras

[Warren Togami]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 18:10 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
>> My Proposal
>> ==========
>> A good compromise would be for Coverity to be run outside of the scope 
>> of the Fedora Project as just a Red Hat thing.  It would run 
>> asynchronously on the binary RPMS in pushed repositories.  If Fedora 
>> contributors are interested in helping to better automate this they are 
>> free to do so.
>>
>> This way Fedora and upstream benefits from Coverity analysis, and Fedora 
>>   remains ideologically pure.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
> Warren, its a _source_ analysis tool. Running it on binary packages
> won't do much good...
> 

Same thing in principle.  Why does Coverity need to be in our build 
system?  It could very well work asynchronously outside of Fedora from 
our SRPMS.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com