Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Coverity Inspected, 20 bugs detected! - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Coverity Inspected, 20 bugs detected!
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In response to Re: Coverity Inspected, 20 bugs detected!  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> IMHO ... most definitely to both ...

Yes to both.

>
>
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Sorry to dual-list this, but there's dual aspects to it.
>>
>> EnterpriseDB, Neil Conway and (earlier) Sean Chittenden worked with
>> Coverity to do static code analysis of PostgreSQL.   We came up very
>> clean
>> (20 bugs in our 3/4 million lines of code) but part of that was due to
>> previous work.   As such, we're now entitled to put a "Coverity
>> Inspected"
>> web sticker up on our site somewhere.
>>
>> So, two questions:
>>
>> 1) Do we want to put up a Coverity Inspected button?    On the plus side,
>> Oracle, MySQL and BerkeleyDB (as well as FreeBSD) have all gone through
>> the Coverity checker, so it says good things about our competitiveness to
>> other database products.   On the negative side, do we really care?
>>
>> 2) If we want to put up the button, *where*?   We don't really have a
>> page
>> on the web site for "certifications and awards", but maybe we ought to?
>>
>> --
>> --Josh
>>
>> Josh Berkus
>> Aglio Database Solutions
>> San Francisco
>>
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