EBN Still Needed?

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 9:43 AM Elv1313 . <elv1313 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> First for my 2 cents, I do have it locally installed in a docker
> container and I use it from time to time. Some checks (like typos) are
> still worthwhile. Some other are obsoleted by Clazy and some other are
> dubious in 2019/C++17. Nevertheless I always loved that this tool
> existed and used it a few time over the years to convince managers
> that spending time on some projects technical debt was worth it. So
> thanks for all this work.
>
> But this isn't the point I want to make in this email. Maybe the
> problem isn't the tool (Krazy2) but rather the delivery (EBN). In this
> day and age, all the cool kids use CI to pre-merge-lint their work. Be
> it GitLab/GitHub/Phab/Jenkins/Gerrit, it is possible for tools to
> comment on patches (and even provide fixits). If the
> ClangTidy/Clazy/Krazy/-Wextra/Asan/Coverity/CppCheck warnings were
> integrated into people workflow, they would not be as easy to
> overlook/ignore/not_know/forget.
>
> So maybe EBN can and should be retired, but only if the valuable
> warnings get integrated into the "modern workflow" of KDE. Be it Phab
> (sigh...) or GitLab (pretty please).

The recent conclusion of the Gitlab discussion thread was that we
would be migrating to Gitlab (subject to a few things being sorted
out) so I don't anticipate any improvements being made to Phab, as
everything new will likely be done on Gitlab.

>
> Regards,
> Emmanuel Lepage

Cheers,
Ben

>
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 16:16, Allen Winter <winter at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> > I was notified today that the Krazy runs on the EBN have been stuck (due to a stale lockfile)
> > for over 3 months.   Is this an indication that nobody looks at the EBN reports any longer?
> >
> > I still maintain Krazy and am happy to make modifications, but I don't see the point
> > unless someone actually reads and acts on the reports.
> >
> > Note that clazy does replace Krazy on most everything (C++) so it could
> > very well be that people are relying on Clazy instead of Krazy.
> >
> > This is not about the API dox generation side of things, which of course we keep.
> >
> > But has the EBN code and documentation checking service out lived its usefulness?
> > Shut it down?
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