[webkit-dev] Pre-proposal: Adding a Coverity instance for WebKIt

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:11 PM, James Hawkins <jhawkins at chromium.org>wrote:
>
> I'd like to propose adding a Coverity instance for the WebKit community,
> but I want to make sure there's general support before writing up the
> detailed proposal.
>
> A few details:
>  * Google will front the cost of the license (non-zero...very far from
> zero) and the infrastructure.
> * I'd leave it up to the WebKit leadership to decide who has access (most
> likely limited to WebKit committers for security purposes).
>

That sounds great to me.

On the other hand, I'm strongly opposed to "fixing" code or rolling out
patches just because Coverity warns about it. See
http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2012-April/020365.html.

- Ryosuke
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