[Ffmpeg-devel] Coverity defect scan

[Mike Melanson]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:25:22AM -0800, Mike Melanson wrote:
> 
>>Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>
>>>Fixing these defects is also going to be a status thing I guess.  The
>>>xine people loudly say how horrible the MPlayer code is at every
>>>possible occasion.  Nevertheless their defect rate is considerably
>>>higher than ours.
>>
>>	0.416 > 0.465? Back to school, Diego.
> 
> 
> Haha, that comment sure motivated some people :)
> 
> Nevertheless read the following in the article about Coverity on
> lwn.net:
> 
>   The projects with the lowest defect density include Ethereal, OpenVPN,
>   Perl, and xmms; the all-time winner is xmms, with a total of six
>   detected errors. At the other end of the scale, one finds Amanda,
>   Firebird, NetSNMP, OpenLDAP, Samba, X, and Xine.
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/174769/
> http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/174769/07c92421c084afbb/
> 
> ;-p

	Maybe you should read the authoritative site, such as it is, which 
reports actual defect density figures.

-- 
	-Mike Melanson