buildbot wishlist: Simian analysis

[Pedro Giffuni <pf...@apache.org>]

Hello;

This is a rather modest wish for you buildbot gurus:
A while ago I asked permission to the author to use
Simian (Similarity analysis) for Apache OpenOffice
and the author kindly accepted.

http://www.harukizaemon.com/simian/

As always we have been busy with the Release and
other stuff and we haven't really used this tool but
it is known that code duplication is a problem in
OpenOffice and it may be a useful option for other
projects as well. If this can be made an option and
there is interest we can go ahead and ask the author
to let us use it for all ASF projects.

best regards,

Pedro.

ps. Yes I am the guy asking infra@ about Coverity
but that is subject for a different thread ;).

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: License request for Apache OpenOffice
Date: 	Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:54:15 +1100
From: 	Simon Harris <ha...@mac.com>
To: 	Pedro Giffuni <pf...@apache.org>



Pedro,

Please feel free to add Simian to your build, and also to contact me if you ever have questions.

Regards,
Simon

On 24/03/2012, at 6:31 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:

>  Hello Simon;
>
>  I joined the Apache OpenOffice project: the popular Office suite
>  that was recently transferred from Oracle to the Apache Software
>  Foundation and will be released soon under an Apache License 2.
>
>  http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/
>
>  Of course OpenOffice is a huge codebase and analyzing a Simian
>  report will take a lot of time and surely more than one person.
>
>  I would like to use your program in our project: first generating a
>  report and making it available publicly and eventually, if it's acceptable
>  to you, incorporating it in a buildbot.
>
>  Thank in Advance,
>
>  Pedro.

Re: buildbot wishlist: Simian analysis

[Lieven Govaerts <lg...@apache.org>]

Hi Pedro,

I'm not member of the infra team, but I have some experience in
buildbot configuration.

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pf...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hello;
>
> This is a rather modest wish for you buildbot gurus:
> A while ago I asked permission to the author to use
> Simian (Similarity analysis) for Apache OpenOffice
> and the author kindly accepted.
>
> http://www.harukizaemon.com/simian/
>
> As always we have been busy with the Release and
> other stuff and we haven't really used this tool but
> it is known that code duplication is a problem in
> OpenOffice and it may be a useful option for other
> projects as well. If this can be made an option and
> there is interest we can go ahead and ask the author
> to let us use it for all ASF projects.
>

That shouldn't be a problem, this is in the faq on the website:
"I am an active supporter of the free software and open source
communities. As such, I provide a free license of Simian for
non-commercial and open source use."

Did you run this tool on the openoffice code already? Do you have
examples of the resulting report you'd like to get out of it?

This tool has some requirements (Java or .NET at least) and needs some
configuration. Maybe you want to run multiple passes, one for the C++
code, one for the Java parts?

I'm sure infra will be quick to help you out if you already have run
this tool on the openoffice code yourself, can describe the
dependencies and (preferably) provide them a script that sets up all
parameters correctly.

> best regards,
>
> Pedro.
>

[..]

hth,

Lieven