coverity code checker in Extras

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Wed Aug 30 18:47:48 UTC 2006


Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>>"JB" == Josh Boyer <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> writes:
> 
> 
> JB> But would running it do anyone any harm?
> 
> The harm is in thinking that bugs have been properly reported, when in
> reality they're not being sent to the people who are most capable of
> dealing with them.
> 
> It's sort of like the kernel bugzilla; you can report things there,
> but there's no guarantee that the subsystem maintainers are paying
> attention.  That's not to say it's useless, and if it allows the
> Coverity folks to get a convenient repository of stuff to check then
> fine, but nobody should have any illusions that it's anywhere close to
> the best way to actually get bugs fixed.

That's true, but if we automated a coverity run on every FE package and 
published the results on the web, we might have upstream projects 
wondering "Why is my project not included in Fedora Extras ?"...




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