Re: coverity scan - a plea for help!

[Xing Lin <xinglin@cs.utah.edu>]

Hi Sage,

I would like to help here as well.

Thanks,
Xing

On 10/31/2013 5:30 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> When I send this out several months ago, Danny Al-Gaaf stepped up and
> submitted an amazing number of patches cleaning up the most concerning
> issues that Coverity had picked up.  His attention has been directed
> elsewhere more recently, but there are still a number of outstanding
> issues in Coverity's tracker that are reasonably quick and easy to resolve
> and will make our ability to identify newly introduced defects much
> simpler.
>
> Coverity Scan makes it really easy to participate: just create an account
> and I can grant you access to the Ceph project.  If you're interested in
> contributing here (and it's an easy way to quickly start working with the
> Ceph code), let me know!
>
> Thanks-
> sage
>
>
> On Thu, 9 May 2013, Sage Weil wrote:
>
>> We were added to coverity's awesome scan program a while back, which gives
>> free access to their static analysis tool to open source projects.
>>
>> Currently it identifies 421 issues.  We've already taken care of the ones
>> that are highest impact, but the usefulness of periodic scans is limited
>> until we can eliminate the noise from the remaining issues and easily see
>> when new problems come up.
>>
>> If anybody is interested in helping out in the cleanup effort, let me know
>> and I'll share the login info.  This would provide significant value to
>> our overall quality efforts and is a pretty easy way to make a meaningful
>> contribution to the project without a huge investment in understanding the
>> code and architecture!
>>
>> sage
>>
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