Re: [gnome-love] Code Auditing as Love

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

> I was just reading today's LWN front page <http://lwn.net/>, and wondered
> what we were doing to promote auditing action on the GNOME code... This is
> certainly something that budding hackers can contribute to - even lodging
> bugs about suspicious code would be very helpful.

Yes, and it also helps people to learn how to work with Open Source.
I found that reading other people's code is useful to understand the
"model" they followed in their application.

> Perhaps we should have an Amazing Auditing Dude award of the week, published
> in the GNOME summaries? It's very important for new contributors to feel
> known and welcome, and I think this would be a good way to highlight some
> tough work being done.

Sounds good to me.  Do you want to start auditing code?

> [ The tough part of this is that auditing is a difficult-to-quanitfy task.
> Perhaps some of the 'elders' could recommend interesting ways of getting
> into this. ]

I would think that just reading existing code and looking for
potential bugs and potential problems will start  pin-pointing
problems. 

Miguel.