Every few weeks I check BOINC hoping to see some really intriguing project that solves impossible problems... like women, the perfect salsa, or pitching for the Red Sox. And I continuously try new projects only to end up back on SETI.
So I'd like to call out to SourceForge, Fortify | Ounce | Coverity, and the community to develop a distributed software assurance system for Open Source software. The idea would be that checked-in code would automatically be queued up and distributed in functional units to participants. All the same Distributed.net concepts with teams and some monetary award from sponsors could apply. The vendors who participated would also get valuable testing feedback and earn karma points with the community that would carry into the closed workplaces.
Add on top of the basic functionality the opportunity for education! Throw all the automated findings in a public queue for registered SourceForge users to review and generate patches or identify false-positives. Let users rate solutions up and down and you've got a treasure-trove of information for the comp.sci crowd.
Screw this.... I want in! Who came up with this idea? Are they looking for contributors? When did I start dash-ing everything? -Pk
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