[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] travis: Initial import of travis instructions.

[Michel Dänzer]

On 02.12.2015 07:06, Jose Fonseca wrote:
> On 28/11/15 21:06, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> On 25 November 2015 at 07:20, Jose Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> BTW, I setup Mesa with Appveyor (like Travis for Windows)
>>>
>>>    https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jrfonseca/mesa
>>>
>>> I'll try to get that going and commited too.
>>>
>> As a person who has broken the Windows build on an occasion or two,
>> yes please.
>>
>>> The nice thing about Appveyor is that it can clone the git from
>>> anywhere,
>>> not just GitHub.
>>>
>>>
>>> Would it be OK to have email notifications to mesa-commits?
>>>
>> I'm wondering if mesa-dev wouldn't be more suitable. Not many of us
>> (or is it just me?) don't follow mesa-commits.
> 
> I'm OK either way.
> 
> 
> Whichever list we choose, we need to whitelist emails from
> no-reply at appveyor.com somehow.   I don't know the procedure for that.

A list administrator can add a subscription for that address with
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>> One thing no one mentioned is that one can automatically feed the
>> results from Travis-CI/github into Coverity. I know Vinson has been
>> doing the latter, although I'm not sure how much of it is automated.
> 
> Yes, but Coverity recommend (ie ask) not to do so on every commit.
> 
> Clang and MSVC have static analyzers too.  I've been running them.  But
> to be honest, running them all the time is not enough -- it takes effort
> to actually act on issues, resolving them / whitelisting them.  And I'm
> afraid I don't had the time.  The bulk is false negatives.

FWIW, I think you mean false positives here.


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