From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Xing Lin Subject: Re: coverity scan - a plea for help! Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:58:46 -0600 Message-ID: <52730AD6.3030607@cs.utah.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu ([155.98.64.241]:34175 "EHLO mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752910Ab3KACJn (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:09:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Sage Weil , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org 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 >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html