[haiku-development] Re: Haiku and coverity
- From: "Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:51:25 -0700
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 23:47 -0400, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This last weekend at LugRadio, David from Coverity (coverity.com) came
> > to the Haiku booth to discuss how to get Coverity to work with Haiku.
> > David gave me his contact information and asked me if I could pass on
> > his offer to help with the process to the Haiku devs.
> >
> > I don't know who I should direct this request, ergo this email on the
> > development list. If there is anyone interested in this, please let me
> > know, and I will send you the contact information off the list.
>
> There has been discussion about Coverity in the IRC channel. Both
> Urias and I have investigated packaging Haiku with pkgsrc, which is
> supposed to be what is required to get something into Coverity. I
> think Urias has looked into it more than I have, but I know he is very
> busy and does not really have the time for it now. I too am busy with
> several other projects.
>
> So I might suggest that this would be a great opportunity for a
> non-developer to contribute to Haiku. Initial knowledge of how to
> build Haiku would probably be a good starting point, and I'm sure Ingo
> and myself could provide some help with the build system if needed
> (more him than me probably, hehe, though I know a bit about Jam.)
>
> Obviously contacting David to get more details would be the first step.
It may not have been clear from my original email, but David said he
would like to help add Coverity support to the Haiku build system. So I
think there is an opportunity here to get someone who knows the system
do some (but not all) of the work for us.
Cheers,
Koki
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