On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 14:22 -0800, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > Not to kick a dead horse or something, but is there a reason to use Coverity? > I've been it a few project ago and it is Ok. However, I see that a lot of > projects in ASF are using FindBugs which seems to be doing a very decent job > and is OSS, and very easy to get and integrate with Jenkins. > > Cos >
Konstantin, It does not really matter of what of kind a static analysis tool is used as long as it leads to submission of quality patches ;-) Oleg > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:50PM, Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 10:35 -0500, Bill Speirs wrote: > > > At work we have started using Coverity -- a static analysis tool -- > > > for some C++ code and it's good at finding otherwise hard-to-find > > > defects. I have not tested it against Java code yet, but they support > > > scanning open source projects for free. All that is needed is for the > > > project admin to send an e-mail to [email protected]: > > > http://scan.coverity.com/developers-faq.html > > > > > > I think having HttpComponents run through the Coverity scan could be > > > beneficial. Thoughts? > > > > > > Bill- > > > > > > > Bill > > > > It is a great idea but personally simply have no bandwidth left for it. > > I can hardly find time to deal with the backlog of patches. > > > > There is no such thing as a project admin for ASF projects. There is a > > group of people responsible for day to day project management (so called > > project management committee). As far as I understand one does not need > > to be a PMC member to speak for an ASF project community. You are > > welcome to take the matter into your own hands and approach Coverity on > > behalf of HttpComponents. > > > > Oleg > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
