Re: coverity scan - a plea for help!

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Awesome!  You just need to create a user at

https://scan.coverity.com/users/sign_up

Once you log in, click 'add yourself to an open source project' on the 
right to request access.

Thanks!
sage


On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, Xing Lin wrote:

> Hi Sage,
> 
> I would like to help here as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> Xing
> 
> On 10/31/2013 5:30 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > When I send this out several months ago, Danny Al-Gaaf stepped up and
> > submitted an amazing number of patches cleaning up the most concerning
> > issues that Coverity had picked up.  His attention has been directed
> > elsewhere more recently, but there are still a number of outstanding
> > issues in Coverity's tracker that are reasonably quick and easy to resolve
> > and will make our ability to identify newly introduced defects much
> > simpler.
> > 
> > Coverity Scan makes it really easy to participate: just create an account
> > and I can grant you access to the Ceph project.  If you're interested in
> > contributing here (and it's an easy way to quickly start working with the
> > Ceph code), let me know!
> > 
> > Thanks-
> > sage
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 9 May 2013, Sage Weil wrote:
> > 
> > > We were added to coverity's awesome scan program a while back, which gives
> > > free access to their static analysis tool to open source projects.
> > > 
> > > Currently it identifies 421 issues.  We've already taken care of the ones
> > > that are highest impact, but the usefulness of periodic scans is limited
> > > until we can eliminate the noise from the remaining issues and easily see
> > > when new problems come up.
> > > 
> > > If anybody is interested in helping out in the cleanup effort, let me know
> > > and I'll share the login info.  This would provide significant value to
> > > our overall quality efforts and is a pretty easy way to make a meaningful
> > > contribution to the project without a huge investment in understanding the
> > > code and architecture!
> > > 
> > > sage
> > > 
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