On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Benjamin Poulain <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:11 PM, James Hawkins <[email protected]> > 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"?
I think this is a great idea, and would be trivial if coverity could be convinced to run on a diff file, or if we could wrap it in a script to only report errors on the changed lines. Either sounds very doable. The EWS infrastructure is already in place once such a script exists. > Reporting possible improvements before patches lands would be more useful > than a separate bot. > > Benjamin > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
