GSoC/GCI Archive
Google Code-in 2013 Haiku

Fix an issue in Haiku that was detected by Coverity (5269427863945216)

completed by: Puck Meerburg

mentors: Urias McCullough, Niels Sascha Reedijk, Philippe Houdoin

Coverity scans Haiku's source code looking for issue and creates a report.  This report may shows hundreds of potential issues.

Figure out the correct fix for one of the listed issues and submit a patch.

The patch will then be reviewed for correctness and credit given.

Further details

 

 

Please create a Coverity account at http://scan.coverity.com and request contributor access to the haiku project there. Once that is done, you will be able to view the CIDs and select one or more to work on.

 

Once you locate one you wish to fix, please make sure it is not a false positive, make sure the fix addresses the problem (not the symptom), and submit a patch on our Bug Tracker at http://dev.haiku-os.org with a keyword gci2013. The patch and trac ticket should mention the CID, and should be created with git format-patch per our patch submission guildelines at http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/SubmittingPatches

 

Feel free to join #haiku on irc/freenode if you need further assistance.