Ben Chelf wrote:
Hello Wine Developers,
As some of you may have heard, last month Coverity set up
http://scan.coverity.com as a site dedicated to scanning open source
projects for defects. In just 1 month, over 4500 defects have been
examined by various open source developers, and from what we can tell,
it seems that there have been over 2500 patches to the scanned code
bases! Due to popular request, I’m happy to announce that we’ve added
Wine to the list of projects scanned on the site. For those of you not
familiar with "scan" yet and by way of introduction ...
I'm the CTO of Coverity, Inc., a company that has technology that
performs static source code analysis to look for defects in code. You
may have heard of us or of our technology from its days at Stanford
(the "Stanford Checker"). The reason I'm writing is because we have
set up a framework internally to continually scan open source projects
and provide the results of our analysis back to the developers of
those projects. To see the results of the project, check out:
http://scan.coverity.com
My belief is that we (Coverity) must reach out to the developers of
these packages (you) in order to make progress in actually fixing the
defects that we happen to find, so this is my first step in that
mission. Of course, I think Coverity technology is great, but I want
to hear what you think and that's why I worked with folks at Coverity
to put this infrastructure in place. The process is simple -- it
checks out your code each night from your repository and scans it so
you can always see the latest results.
Right now, we're guarding access to the actual defects that we
report for a couple of reasons: (1) We think that you, as developers
of Wine, should have the chance to look at the defects we find to
patch them before random other folks get to see what we found and (2)
From a support perspective, we want to make sure that we have the
appropriate time to engage with those who want to use the results to
fix the code. Because of this second point, I'd ask that if you are
interested in really digging into the results a bit further for your
project, please have a couple of core maintainers and/or developers
reach out to us to request access. As this is a new process for us and
still involves a small number of packages, I want to make sure that I
personally can be involved with the activity that is generated from
this effort.
So I'm basically asking for people who want to play around with some
cool new technology to help make source code better. If this interests
you, please feel free to register on our site or email me directly.
And of course, if there are other packages you care about that aren't
currently on the list, I want to know about those too.
If this is the wrong list, my sincerest apologies and please let me
know where would be a more appropriate forum for this type of message.
Many thanks for reading this far...
-ben
Ben Chelf
Chief Technology Officer
Coverity, Inc.
I would volunteer, but since I'm not one of the core maintainers, I
think I'd just get laughed at. So, if any of the core maintainers that
do volunteer want to pass along some code to someone interested in
finally learning the internals of the wine code, feel free to forward it
to me. I cant guarantee a patch, but I can think like a computer, so my
code usually comes out pretty much bug free.
Tom
