On 03/28/2018 02:33 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> According to the contribution guidelines document [0] the coverity
> database of issues is private, which makes it hard for new people to
> see issues. IMO it makes no sense to keep the result private anymore:
> 
>  - They have been audited for plenty of time by different people
>    that currently has access to the database.
>  - Anyone can reproduce the same results by forking Xen on github and
>    sending a build to coverity for analysis AFAICT.
> 
> On the plus side, having the database open would allow us the
> following:
> 
>  - Coverity reports could be sent to xen-devel, so anyone could pick
>    and fix new issues.
>  - Newcomers could use coverity in order to find small size tasks to
>    work on.

In general, +1 from me.  But Stefano, was there some special
circumstance for the ARM Coverity runs?

 -George

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