Static code analysis on github

Markus Mützel <[email protected]> Fri, 2 Oct 2020 10:04:32 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.octave.maintainers
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Hi Kai,

Github seems to provide static code analysis for public repositories hosted on their platform:
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/finding-security-vulnerabilities-and-errors-in-your-code/enabling-code-scanning-for-a-repository

I'm not particularly familiar with Github. So I can't judge if that is something that we could use to analyze the Octave repository hosted there:
https://github.com/gnu-octave/octave

Also PVS Studio, which we had a trial run with some time ago, seems to offer free licenses for OSS projects hosted on Github:
https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0600/

Do you think that could be useful for us?

Markus