IIRC, they perform this analysis once a week. I will verify before we agree to anything.
On 9/7/07, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > this sounds pretty interesting. MINA and Directory projects could > benefit from such a tool. There are two conditions though : > - it should _not_ kill Apache SVN server by grabbing the last > modifications every minutes. Once a week should be enough. I suggest > to ask infra about allowing such a tool to checkout the code on a > regular base (we have had really bad experiences lately with other > tools who killed the server more than once ...) > - If we get some valuable information, the it should be publicly > available to everybody. It's an open source project, with an open > community. > > My 2cts, > > Emmanuel > > On 9/7/07, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I attended a conference last week, and at the conference I met David > Maxwell > > who is an open source strategist for Coverity. Coverity has developed > tools > > that perform static code analysis on C/C++ based projects. David > mentioned > > that Coverity is in the process of finalizing a tool that will process > java > > code and one of their focuses is on concurrent code analysis. I > mentioned > > to him that I am a committer on this project and David mentioned that > > Coverity currently processes some Apache programs already. He said that > > Coverity has an automated process in place which grabs open source > programs > > out of cvs/svn and analyzes the code and reports the results to the > > developers at no cost. > > > > I would like to take the lead on this and work with David to get MINA > into > > their processes so that Coverity could scan our baseline on a regular > basis > > and report the results back to us. I figure that it can only make our > > program better. > > > > Here is the link to Coverity's scan tool: http://scan.coverity.com/ > > > > > > thoughts/comments/questions.... > > > > -- > > ..Cheers > > Mark > > > > > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > -- ..Cheers Mark
