Coverity coverage of Wine

[Detlef Riekenberg]

On Di, 2006-09-12 at 08:51 +0200, Paul Vriens wrote:

> the latest run (with report) on the Coverity site seems to be from July
> 21st. 

> Does anybody know more about the why?

What comes in my mind, that they offered there Service to Wine
to use it as an Advertisement like:
"Coverity detected >800 Errors in Wine and all where fixed in less
than 2 Month"

We started to fix them, but the fixing-Rate went down near to Zero
very fast.
To remember, the Announcement from Ben Chelf was on 07. April 2006:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-April/046354.html

The first Day, we fixed 31 Defects
( http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-April/046433.html ),
but the total Results are not so good:

We marked 74 Defects as RESOLVED, 78 Entries are Verified and 344 are
still Uninspected or Pending. (Overview at http://scan.coverity.com )

You must also think, that every Run is visible with annotated source.
This cost them a lot of GB HD-Space, that is always online for us.

> I've tried to contact Coverity for
> the last month and my last email (where I've requested a read-receipt,
> shame on me) was deleted without being read.

IMHO, they did not see enough benefit for there investigation in Wine.
Simple: We do not pay, they stopped....


BUG-Hunting is not a fun thing, but Alexandre can open bug-hunting
Weeks, similar to the feature-freeze before wine-0.9.

This can target the Bugs found by Coverity and Smatch with Priority.

Seems to be a nice theme for Wineconf (Sorry, I'm not there).


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