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
>


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Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com

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