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diff --git a/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md b/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md index 9a2d414048..da51246525 100644 --- a/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md +++ b/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md @@ -146,3 +146,23 @@ their bug reports. ### Mentors * Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi.software> + +## Make coreboot coverity clean +coreboot and several other of our projects are automatically tested +using Synopsys' free "Coverity Scan" service. While some fare pretty +good, like [em100](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/em100) at 0 known +defects, there are still many open issues in other projects, most notably +[coreboot](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/coreboot) itself (which +is also the largest codebase). + +Not all of the reports are actual issues, but the project benefits a +lot if the list of unhandled reports is down to 0 because that provides +a baseline when future changes reintroduce new issues: it's easier to +triage and handle a list of 5 issues rather than more than 350. + +This project would be going through all reports and handling them +appropriately: Figure out if reports are valid or not and mark them +as such. For valid reports, provide patches to fix the underlying issue. + +### Mentors +* Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi.software> |