I've been thinking of doing something and i'm looking for people to work with! Notes here: http://memeschemes.com/code_search/

A bug in that program would certainly be wonderful. Have fun when it files a few million unnecessary bug reports while you're sleeping.

Have it require approval for each bug report. While it isn't as fast as a fully automatic bug finding system, it is faster than a manual find and file. Plus it takes care of those situations where it was intended(poor coding, but it works).

I've had some similar ideas myself, consider me interested. I've written some (very little) code to search projects among the big open source hosts (SF, Google, Github etc). Also have a nice domain for it.

This will be very useful as long as it finds confirmed bugs. Otherwise it will be more like an unasked-for code style check (For example, one can argue using functions like strcpy are unsafe, but unless it's really possible to get too many characters in the buffer, it's not a bug)

I've been wanting to do that for:

* NPM packages whose package.json file is missing a link to the package's GitHub repo

* Markdown READMEs without the right file extension (for GitHub)