Re: Automated linting before master branch commit

[mikadoZero]

Danny Milosavljevic writes:

> Hi,
>
>> What do people think about automating package linting?  This would be to
>> make sure a package is linted before it is committed to the Guix
>> repository master branch?
>
> A linter by its nature will in some cases flag things which are not wrong,
> otherwise one could just check the stuff while compiling in the first place.
>
>> I am not familiar with what Guix uses for continuous integration /
>> deployment.
>
> We can manually make cuirass and/or Hydra evaluate custom branches--but it's
> not automated.
>
> Christopher Baines is working on making patch review better--see thread
> "Patchwork + automated checking and testing of patches".

Thanks for sharing that thread.

>> Estimated number of packages with autogenerated tarball:
>> 
>> 389
>
> Yeah, those should be updated.  With that many packages, writing a script
> to do it would be less annoying.