Re: gnome-janitors

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:12:54AM +0100, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
[...]
> Examples of stuff that people with little knowledge of the core code can
> help out with in that respect is:
> 
> - run valgrind / memprof on the codebase and file stuff in bugzilla
> after discussing it on (yet another) mailing list?
> - run splint - http://www.splint.org/ on the code and file reports on
> stuff.
> - probably a lot of other stuff to make the code meet coding guidelines
> that the project has
> 
> This would of course be even more successful if someone with knowledge
> of the core code took some time to 
> 
> - make a ~/.splintrc that didn't spew tons of warnings that are plain
> wrong
> - write guidelines for use of valgrind on the GNOME codebase
> etc
> 
> I'd like to help here, but I'm not the one to say if glib/gtk+/other
> core lib does crazy stuff or if splint is just being silly...

This was sort of what gnome-love was created for; that and helping
people get started on coding (but it wasn't just for coding). Initially
it worked very well. Lately, for a variety of reasons, it has become
less useful in that respect. But ramping it up again would be good.

If some rah-rah enthusiasm postings were done over there along these
lines, I think it would be great. There are a couple of currently very
active GNOME developers who have came up through gnome-love in its early
days ('procman' was one result), so it can work.

[Btw, I'm was not completely convinced about the utility of splint when I last looked. Using it to its full extent seemed to require almost as much extra markup in the comments as there was code in a lot of cases. But I can be convinced otherwise with results, I guess.]

Malcolm

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