EBN Still Needed?

[Ben Cooksley]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 6:26 AM Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, 26 March 2019 21:15:31 CET Allen Winter 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?
>
> I think for the C++ checks it's indeed due to Clazy/clang-tidy outperforming
> Krazy, both in terms of precision and in runtime performance. And for code I'm
> working on I usually run these tools locally indeed.
>
> However Krazy is more than C++ checks, and EBN is more than Krazy. I do think
> it's very valuable to have the infrastructure to do "global" scans on all our
> repositories, see e.g. the work in D19996 for finding insecure http: links
> anywhere (code, docs, website content, infrastructure config, etc). Continuous
> checks in commit hooks or the CI will help us to catch newly introduced issues
> there, but it wont help in getting this fixed everywhere in the existing
> repos.

Couldn't the CI runs produce as part of their output reports which
would contain historical issues as well as checking to see if the
state had regressed?
(Ideally this would be from a state of no issues)

>
> License compatibility/maitenance is another topic where global C++ independent
> scans are useful (and where krazy already has checks), e.g. to identify and
> fix the remaining GPLv2 only material (which is incompatible with GPLv3+ and
> Apache 2 licensed work).
>
> Regards,
> Volker

Cheers,
Ben