Hey guys, My name is David Carlos, and I am a GSoC student, working with Fedora. This email is to present myself, and what I pretend to do during the GSoC period. I am a student from University of Brasilia, in Brazil, and in the middle of the year I get my software engineering bachelor degree. I have contributed to some open source projects, and with this experience I realized how a good QA environment can help developing better software. With this in mind Athos and I idealized the kiskadee system [1]. kiskadee will be a tool to help Linux distributions (and other software repositories) to continuously measure the quality of packages source code. The main ideia is to monitor repositories, and when a new package or a new version of an existent package is released, we download the package source code, and run several static analyzers on it. Each monitored distribution will be a kiskadee plugin, that implements an interface that we will define. The result of these analyses, which is parsed using the Fedora Firehose project, will be stored in a relational database (this idea has been discussed a while ago in the devel mailing lists, by the guys in the Static Analysis SIG [2]). With this database several analyses can be made, and by using several static analyzers we want to find heuristics to identify false positives (this is not part of GSoC though). A similar tool exists in the Debian distribution, but it is way dependent on their infrastructure, and one of our objetives is to keep kiskadee simple, and extensible. I am very happy that I was acepted in GSoC to work with Fedora. I have some rpm packing experience, and hope to keep contributing with Fedora after the GSoC period ends. [1] the great kiskadee is a bird that watches its prey (usually bugs) and catch them in flight. [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StaticAnalysis -- David Carlos http://davidcarlos.github.io/
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