[postgis-devel] Static Analysis

[Bborie Park]

+1 I'd love to have a run through...

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
wrote:

> Hey Devs,
>
> Are we interested in receiving static analysis reports (Coverity) on
> the PostGIS code base?
>
> The folks at CrunchyData are willing to stick-handle the bureaucracy
> around getting Coverity account for the project and a system set up to
> regularly pass the PostGIS code base through Coverity static analysis.
> Coverity provides free (as in beer) accounts for open source projects,
> so the actual Coverity "account" would be the PostGIS project's and
> the PSC would control it.
>
> Anyways, other than providing an annoying list of things we should do
> (gah!) I see no downside to having some more information on our code
> cleanliness/security. Unlike the transifex stuff, there'd be no
> dependencies on a foreign system, since if Coverity ever shut off our
> access we'd be no worse off than we are right now.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> P
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