Re: Coverity Inspected, 20 bugs detected!

IMHO ... most definitely 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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