[Qgis-psc] 2025 Grant: Coverity Scan cleanup progress report

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Thank you for the update Nyall

Cheers

Marco Bernasocchi

QGIS.org Chair
OSGEO.org VP Europe
OPENGIS.ch CEO
http://berna.io

On Fri, 31 Oct 2025, 17:40 Nyall Dawson via QGIS-PSC, <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi PSC,
>
> In regards to the 2025 funding grant for QEP 337: Coverity Scan
> cleanup -- the short story is that this is still an ongoing work in
> progress.
>
> While the work started quickly, unfortunately it was delayed for a
> significant portion of the year after the Coverity scan compilation
> tool broke on newer development environments. It's only recently that
> I've been able to resume work on this project, and have been pushing
> hard over the last fortnight to get it wrapped up quickly (see links
> below). I estimate that there's another 2 weeks remaining here before
> I can complete the project.
>
> While the tool was broken on desktop environments, I attempted the
> second part of the project (investigating whether it is possible to
> automatically run the Coverity Scan tool on a weekly basis as a GitHub
> action). (see https://github.com/nyalldawson/QGIS/tree/coverity_workflow).
> My finding was that this is NOT possible to achieve via GitHub
> actions, as the compilation using the coverity cov-build tool ends up
> exceeding the maximum available space on the workflow runners.
>
> I will report back with an updated status regarding completion of this
> work mid-November.
>
> Kind regards,
> Nyall
>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63681
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63686
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63687
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63697
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63702
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63704
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63705
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63706
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63707
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63708
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63715
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63734
> https://github.com/hobuinc/laz-perf/pull/166
> https://github.com/hobuinc/laz-perf/pull/167
> https://github.com/syoyo/tinygltf/pull/525
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