Re: gnome-janitors

[Martin Sevior <msevior physics unimelb edu au>]

On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 11:03, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> 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?

Valgrind certainly needs to be run against a variety of applications.
I'm running it on abiword and there are *LOTS* of gtk 2.0.7 issues that
come up. I should upgrade to gtk 2.2 to see they've been fixed.

Cheers

Martin


> > - 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
-- 
Martin Sevior <msevior physics unimelb edu au>
University of Melbourne

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