coverity?

[Stephen Kelly]

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> 
>> > It seems scans stopped on 2008-Apr-24, i tried finding someone with
>> > contact with coverity on IRC but failed.
>> 
>> I have a contact and he said that the old scan host ran out of disk space
>> and that he tries to setup a new one (where we can build the stuff
>> ourselves and only submit the collected data for analysis). Still pending
>> a reply, however.
>> 
> 
> Ah, ok. I was thinking of fixing the koffice coverity bugs as part of our
> effort to get into release mode, but that'll keep.
> 
> Boudewijn

What is coverity? A security tool? Quality tool? Could someone put info on
whatever it is here:

http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Software_Engineering_Framework