Re: Static code analysis on github

[Markus Mützel]

Am 02. Oktober 2020 um 10:50 Uhr schrieb "Kai Torben Ohlhus":
> On 10/2/20 5:04 PM, Markus Mützel wrote:
> > Hi Kai,
> > 
> > Github seems to provide static code analysis for public repositories hosted 
> > on their platform:
> > https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/finding-security-vulnerabilities-and-errors-in-your-code/enabling-code-scanning-for-a-repository
> > 
> > I'm not particularly familiar with Github. So I can't judge if that is 
> > something that we could use to analyze the Octave repository hosted there:
> > https://github.com/gnu-octave/octave
> > 
> > Also PVS Studio, which we had a trial run with some time ago, seems to 
> > offer free licenses for OSS projects hosted on Github:
> > https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0600/
> > 
> > Do you think that could be useful for us?
> > 
> > Markus
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi Markus,
> 
> Yes, I read about this feature, too.  A try with default settings seems
> to be insufficient for the magic.
> 
> 
> https://github.com/gnu-octave/octave/commit/24cc0307ab26f43ca6ea51a4c6510f413ad2204b
>    https://github.com/gnu-octave/octave/runs/1197846549
> 
> Octave is very complex to build, maybe beyond the scope of what the
> CodeQL project is aiming for.  If you are interested you can tune the
> file as you please.  All owners of the "gnu-octave" group (you are
> markuman?) can try out things in that repo (without my permission ;-)).
>  If it is broken, I reset it. 

My username on github is mmuetzel. Could you add me to the group?

> If you don't want to try more with it, I have to remove the commit.
> Otherwise the auto-update of the repository is broken, as it is no
> official commit.
> 
> Kai
> 
> 
> P.S.: Some observation: recently the maintainers mailing list seems to
> be preferred over Discourse again.  Did problems with Discourse come up
> recently?

I guess that's just old habits. That was it for me now, at least.

Markus