Posted by Michal Zalewski on Apr 20
Well, I can kinda sympathize. Somebody took one of my OSS projects
(p0f) and ran it through a static analyzer a while ago (the analyzer
shall remain nameless, but was one of the major ones). The results
were just pages and pages of nonsensical findings, interspersed with
non-specific style recommendations.
An experience like that can quickly divide developers into two camps:
the “not sure, but let me spend a week to address everything, just…