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It seems there was some good research into the idea so making the title about that and marking as "fixed".
Coverity is a static analysis tool which can detect problems in the drupal code, and can improve quality of the code base.
It searches for (basic) code problems. http://software.synopsys.com/rs/157-LQW-289/images/FY16%20SIG%20FB%20Let...
Core developers can use this to spot possible improvements in the drupal core codebase.
A daily analysis can be run, spottin (and removing) code duplication, dead code, and other possible improvements.
We can update core to find and fix possible problems spotted here. And point potential clients to a report showing the quality of drupal core code.
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A client of us pointed out that they use Coverity for static code analysis.
Recently this also scans PHP projects. https://scan.coverity.com/
As an open source project it is possible to get free / periodic scans of the codebase. Perhaps this is something we could do for drupal as well.
Open source projects which are already doing this are for example owncloud / nextcloud. Lots of Apache (Java) projects. Some Angular tools, some wikimedia projects.
I'm not sure what the best person / instance within the drupal community would be to apply to this. So i'm posting it here first.
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It seems there was some good research into the idea so making the title about that and marking as "fixed".