From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14309 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2007 08:52:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 14236 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Aug 2007 08:52:34 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:52:30 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (62.40.255.123.static.snap.net.nz [123.255.40.62]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD143DAB34; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:52:27 +1200 (NZST) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BCB708FC6D; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:52:21 +1200 (NZST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18118.45892.919518.866568@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:52:00 -0000 To: "Michael Snyder" Cc: Subject: Re: NEWS for 6.7: mention coverity bug fixes In-Reply-To: <000701c7e155$9bcfb8e0$677ba8c0@sonic.net> References: <10983.12.7.175.2.1187377963.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> <18118.17885.89039.298330@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <000701c7e155$9bcfb8e0$677ba8c0@sonic.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.10 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00370.txt.bz2 > > 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. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob