[FFmpeg-devel] coverity testing of FFmpeg

[Josh de Kock]

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On 2016/11/27 19:00, Philip Langdale wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 23:55:17 +0100 Michael Niedermayer
> <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all
> 
>> The machine on which the coverity stuff is is old, both hw and
>> OS. the OS will no longer get security updates in a few months
>> and the hw does not always boot and its switched off most of the
>> time. and it has no other use anymore than running coverity. Ive
>> tried to find someone a while ago to take coverity testing over
>> and i thought timothy would maybe do it but he seems to not have
>> had any time to look into it ... and de facto ive not run it
>> regularly in the recent months. So this is kinda a louder
>> announcement that if you care about coverity testing, you need to
>> do something ...
> 
>> thx
> 
>> PS: work would involve installing every optional dependancy of
>> FFmpeg (and keep them updated as needed) and regularly either
>> manually or automatically git pull, build with the coverity tools
>> and upload Its not a huge amount of work but it is work
> 
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I think we could do this using travis-ci.
> 
> https://scan.coverity.com/travis_ci
> 
> travis can be directly connected to the github mirror and then we
> set up a coverity job as covered in this doc.
> 
> It wouldn't even need to be configured to build - just run the
> coverity scan. I'd be happy to investigate this, but I'd need admin
> permissions on github to configure travis integration.
> 
> --phil

I can help with Travis CI + GitHub, if any is needed, I have used it
extensively with other open-source projects.

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Josh

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