Re: [PATCH v1] travis-ci: add static analysis build job to run coccicheck

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Apr 18, 2017, 19:20 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbwQYCLXzVMr3wZsx3vA2zBMisqySt7SRQsnU_mQDB4gg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <55524921-3295-90e6-6473-ae1289eeeb75@gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 2017-04-11 09:26, Lars Schneider wrote:
>
>> Add a dedicated build job for static analysis. As a starter we only run
>> coccicheck but in the future we could run Clang Static Analyzer or
>> similar tools, too.
>
>
> Just FYI, some time ago someone (I don't recall who) signed up Git with
> Coverity's free scan service for OSS projects:
>
> https://scan.coverity.com/projects/git?tab=overview
>
> Maybe it makes sense to at least link to this page, too?
>

yeah 'someone' is a good description. I accidentally took it over when it looked stale. Now I have a cron job to upload the pu branch there each night. (Which is one of the downsides of that service: Git is so large measured by lines of code, such that we're allowed only one scan per day. I wonder if that could be circumvented by each contributor having its own fork, but let's not go that way)