On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 17:44, Steve Holden <steve@holdenweb.com> wrote:
Could we consider offering a complimentary PyCon registration to a member of the Coverity team as an encouragement to have someone around during the sprints? I am sure that much useful informal education would take place, benefiting many sprints, if we enable it and just let things happen.
This may be a bit premature. Last time the scan had a bunch of false-positives, so while it found errors it was a bit of work to go through. Not sure if there is anything new and useful lately.
Then again free registration is cheap.
Or would this be seen as favoring one vendor? I don't see other people lining up to validate the developers' code, but nor do I want to step on anyone's toes.
Klocwork did, but the site that hosted their results no longer responds and Neal Norwitz was the only person with access.
Maybe python-dev is a better place for this discussion, or maybe Guido should just talk to Van and/or Jesse and short-circuit about thirty-five "+1" responses.
I just don't know how useful it would be. The results of the scan are what they are. Even if I am the only person with access, I have received enough PyCon financial aide to be at the sprints for the first two full days so I can always dole out responsibilities on the spot.
-Brett
Or not.
regards Steve
On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
OK, I will handle it.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:21, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
My coverity contact wrote back:
""" Sure, the main contact is David Maxwell and he's reachable via scan@coverity.com though if that doesn't work you can always just try dmaxwell@coverity.com - they can give you access and update ... whatever - he also is more up to date on where we are in moving the open source projects over to our new version (there's a pretty time consuming migration involved among all the projects). Maybe he can set up Python 3 directly on the new version - I'm not really sure how they are handling all that... """
-- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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