On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 13:11 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "TM" == Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > TM> what is it really, what is going to happen if we accept their > TM> offer? Will every package in Extras be scanned? > > I don't think their technology would support that; as far as I know > they can't do anything with Perl or Python or the like. > > What I find to be of more concern is what maintainers are expected to > do with that information. In most cases all we'd be able to do is > pass the reports upstream, which I suppose would be OK but might be a > bit much to ask some maintainers (i.e. the ones with 50+ packages) to > handle. Ideally Coverity would just deal directly with upstream and > extras wouldn't need to be involved. But would running it do anyone any harm? I think not. And for ambitious maintainers, they can work with upstream on any issues that are found. josh -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
