[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Re: coverity code checker in Extras

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Aug 31 02:42:12 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 18:10 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> My Proposal
> ==========
> A good compromise would be for Coverity to be run outside of the scope 
> of the Fedora Project as just a Red Hat thing.  It would run 
> asynchronously on the binary RPMS in pushed repositories.  If Fedora 
> contributors are interested in helping to better automate this they are 
> free to do so.
> 
> This way Fedora and upstream benefits from Coverity analysis, and Fedora 
>   remains ideologically pure.
> 
> Thoughts?

Warren, its a _source_ analysis tool. Running it on binary packages
won't do much good...




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