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[eclipse.org-architecture-council] Eclipse FindBugs FixIt Challenge
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I sent this to Wayne and Lynne. They suggested I bring it before the
architecture council for discussion:
Here is something that I think would be an interesting endevor to
undertake and I don't think Apache or any other open source foundation
has done this.
In 2009, Google held a day or two for a FindBugs FixIt.
http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/jobs/21pre.html
Basically, the engineers devoted two days to fixing bugs that FindBugs
reported. It is no secrete if your run these Static Code Analysis
tools that some of the core systems we have and use at eclipse are not
as clean as they could be.
So, what I'm proposing is that there be a little contest amongst the
various eclipse projects. Those that want to participate can run
FindBugs against their code base, and publish the initial baseline
results. They then can devote one milestone in which they report
the difference between what Findbugs found to begin with and what the
end of that Milestone reports. The one with the most improvement
could get some sort of Recognition or Badge or something. Maybe
bragging rights that they have the cleanest code.
The ultimate goal though is to improve the code base for the
adopters. The more bugs we eliminate up front instead of waiting for
them to be reported the better for the adopters and community. This
is just one way we could do it, and make it a little competition.
Thoughts?
I can open a bug for this as well, if necessary.
Dave