[python-committers] anyone still have access to the coverity scan results?

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 17:44, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Could we consider offering a complimentary PyCon registration to a member of the Coverity team as an encouragement to have someone around during the sprints? I am sure that much useful informal education would take place, benefiting many sprints, if we enable it and just let things happen.

This may be a bit premature. Last time the scan had a bunch of
false-positives, so while it found errors it was a bit of work to go
through. Not sure if there is anything new and useful lately.

Then again free registration is cheap.

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> Or would this be seen as favoring one vendor? I don't see other people lining up to validate the developers' code, but nor do I want to step on anyone's toes.

Klocwork did, but the site that hosted their results no longer
responds and Neal Norwitz was the only person with access.

> Maybe python-dev is a better place for this discussion, or maybe Guido should just talk to Van and/or Jesse and short-circuit about thirty-five "+1" responses.

I just don't know how useful it would be. The results of the scan are
what they are. Even if I am the only person with access, I have
received enough PyCon financial aide to be at the sprints for the
first two full days so I can always dole out responsibilities on the
spot.

-Brett

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> Or not.
>
> regards
>  Steve
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> On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
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>> OK, I will handle it.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:21, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>> My coverity contact wrote back:
>>>
>>> """
>>> Sure, the main contact is David Maxwell and he's reachable via
>>> scan at coverity.com though if that doesn't work you can always just try
>>> dmaxwell at coverity.com - they can give you access and update ...
>>> whatever - he also is more up to date on where we are in moving the
>>> open source
>>> projects over to our new version (there's a pretty time consuming migration
>>> involved among all the projects).  Maybe he can set up Python 3 directly on
>>> the new version - I'm not really sure how they are handling all that...
>>> """
>>>
>>> --
>>> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
>>>
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