Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Chermside
Dennis Allison writes: I'd also encourage Coventry to explain their business model a bit more clearly. Ben Chelf writes: Of course it's no surprise that I see open source projects everywhere -- as part of infrastructure or part of code bases that people are developing. So from a Coverity

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-13 Thread Scott David Daniels
Michael Chermside wrote: (PS: too bad I can't buy stock in Coverity. How come all the GOOD companies are private? I had to wait around 6 years before I could buy stock in Google.) Maybe because the companies whose stock is available early are companies bent on producing stock profits, rather

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-11 Thread Ben Chelf
The Coverty marketing droids need to be a bit less anal about getting people to register at the website. IMHO, the technology should be Honestly, I laughed out loud when I read this. ;) So thanks for that. I'd also encourage Coventry to explain their business model a bit more clearly.

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Wouters
On 3/7/06, Ben Chelf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Putting on my idealistic hat and remembering back my grad school days, Ithink we're on to something very new in the world of source codeanalysis. I really just want every developer to use source code analysiswhile they write code (remember, idealistic

[Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-06 Thread Ben Chelf
Hello Python Developers, I'm the CTO of Coverity, Inc., a company that does 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-06 Thread Tim Peters
[Ben Chelf [EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... 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 (or group nominated individuals) reach out to me to request access. Didn't we set up a security swat team some time

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 14:26 -0500, Tim Peters wrote: [Ben Chelf [EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... 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 (or group nominated individuals) reach out to me to request

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-06 Thread Thomas Wouters
On 3/6/06, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Didn't we set up a security swat team some time ago?If not, we should.Regardless, since I have more free time these days, I'd like to be on it.Yep, it's called [EMAIL PROTECTED] (with a semi-secret backing mailinglist, which I'd be happy for you

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-06 Thread Tim Peters
[Barry] Yep, it's called [EMAIL PROTECTED] (with a semi-secret backing mailing list, which I'd be happy for you to join!). If guessing the right Mailman URL was the semi-secret test, I passed :-) I definitely think that group of folks at the least should review the results. Yup!

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-06 Thread Dennis Allison
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 14:26 -0500, Tim Peters wrote: [Ben Chelf [EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... 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 (or

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-06 Thread Guido van Rossum
FWIW, coverity has been busy marketing this already: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/84465/key-opensource-code-passes-muster.html -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-06 Thread Jeremy Hylton
On 3/6/06, Thomas Wouters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/6/06, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Didn't we set up a security swat team some time ago? If not, we should. Regardless, since I have more free time these days, I'd like to be on it. Yep, it's called [EMAIL