On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 10:01:04AM -0500, Patrick Williams wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Ed recently added a test-phase called 'repotest'[1,2] in the openbmc/openbmc
> repository that allows us to perform sanity checking on commits at that level
> beyond a simple "does this compile".  The initial checking he added was to
> ensure that no new patches are added to the tree (in violation of our meta-layer
> coding guidelines).
> 
> I'm adding[3] additional capabilities to this script to enable linting in the
> repository.  This will run `shellcheck` for shell scripts and `eslint` for JSON
> (Some might be unaware that Manoj added JSON linting with `eslint` as part of
> our normal unit-test / formatting scripts[4] as well).  Once this is in place
> new commits will fail CI if they add new shellscripts that violate `shellcheck`
> rules or JSON with invalid parsing.
> 
> Currently, there is quite an extensive list of 'exempted' scripts (~100) which
> already fail `shellcheck` rules.  It is quite likely that some of these are
> real bugs, so I would strongly urge if you are the maintainer of one of the
> meta-layers holding an 'exempted' script that you look over the `shellcheck`
> failures.  Hopefully over the next few months we will greatly reduce the number
> of scripts in this exemption list by cleaning up the issues.
> 
> 1. https://lore.kernel.org/openbmc/CAH2-KxDe6hR1V-Lz1k8cdD11jEquy4UhR4LfLhg37E5EG42EJg@mail.gmail.com/
> 2. https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/blob/master/meta-phosphor/scripts/run-repotest
> 3. https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/openbmc/+/48349
> 4. https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc-build-scripts/blob/master/scripts/format-code.sh#L31
> -- 
> Patrick Williams

This is now merged.

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Patrick Williams