Re: NEWS for 6.7: mention coverity bug fixes

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

 > > I can imagine that Coverity would like recognition when their software is
 > > successfully used to find bugs in free software projects, but I don't
 > > think that NEWS is the right place to do it.  This file details what
 > > changes have been made to GDB, not how they were made or how many were
 > > made.  You already mention Coverity in the ChangeLogs, which seems the
 > > right thing to do.  _They_ can then use this as evidence to any claims
 > > that they might wish to make about their software.
 > 
 > Actually I stopped mentioning them in the changelogs, when
 > one of the Binutils maintainers said that they thought it was
 > inappropriate.

I think I can see this in the archives where he suggests writing what he calls
a NEWS entry but then refers to http://gcc.gnu.org/news.html, for which there
appears to be no GDB equivalent.  I thought the NEWS _file_ was aimed at the
users of GDB.  To that extent the bug fixes made through Coverity are only
relevant here if they provide a noticeable difference, e.g., users were
complaining about crashes and leakages which have been fixed.

I guess if Coverity is proprietary software then the Free Software line may be
that it gets no mention. However, the ChangeLog seems appropriate to me, just
as it is the place where the author gets recognition for his/her contribution.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob