On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:11 PM, James Hawkins <jhawk...@chromium.org>wrote: > > A few details: > * Google will front the cost of the license (non-zero...very far from > zero) and the infrastructure. > * I'd leave it up to the WebKit leadership to decide who has access (most > likely limited to WebKit committers for security purposes). > > The biggest rationale is to provide a strong defect signal for the entire > WebKit community, which would directly impact the success of all > WebKit-based projects. Coverity has provided free licenses for unsponsored > (by larger corporations anyway) open-source projects; this has resulted in > significant improvements [2] to the code bases of these projects, one of > which I was directly involved with years ago (Wine). >
I am a little skeptical of Coverity because of bad patches that originated for its report (sometimes even discussed on webkit-dev). I think we should keep in mind the tool also make many mistakes and we should not blindly follows it. Could this be integrated with the EWS like a kind of advanced "style check"? Reporting possible improvements before patches lands would be more useful than a separate bot. Benjamin
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