Perhaps open the JIRA with only a reference/link to the Coverity report, and 
limit access to only those working on the issues. 

Full disclosure, update the JIRA, after fix.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Roman Shaposhnik
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 10:50 AM
> To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Coverity Scan (MAPREDUCE-5032)
> 
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
> <vino...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > Can you file a JIRA and attach the report there? That is the best way to
> move this forward.
> 
> Last time I was involved in a Coverity scan was when they scanned another
> project I'm committer on (FFmpeg). The lesson there was that the value you
> get out of browsing on their site https://scan.coverity.com is immeasurably
> higher than from any static report that can be attached to a JIRA.
> 
> Also, at least in FFmpeg's case, Coverity identified a few things that 
> could've
> been used as potential exploits so it made perfect sense to have a white-list
> of project members who could get access to the initial report instead of going
> all public with it to begin with (which would happen if it just gets attached 
> to
> a JIRA in its entirety).
> 
> Just my 2c worth of working with them in the past.
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.

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