This is a followup to my proposal in http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/175232.html I want a common output format for static analysis tools so that we can easily slurp the results from different tools into a database and have a common system for managing the results (marking false positives, having automated de-duplication, etc). (I like the name "firehose" for the overall system since it describes the issue we'll have of managing the flood of data). I came up with an XML format, which I've uploaded code to here: https://github.com/fedora-static-analysis/firehose Does this look sane? I think that it should be possible to write converters that turn the output from other tools into this, and I think it's possible to hack up my static analyzers to emit this format. The firehose.py script is able to turn such an XML report into a text format mimicking what GCC emits, which is useful in Emacs (and probably other editors) which can parse that text format for clicking through to the underlying source code being tested. Thoughts? BTW, I hope to run a hackfest on Static Analysis in Fedora at FUDCon Lawrence this weekend. Anyone around? [there are plenty of different tasks requiring different skill sets: Python scripting, web development, etc - you don't need to know about compiler internals! though that would help also :) ] Dave -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
