Michael Park created MESOS-4907:
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Summary: ClangTidy Integration
Key: MESOS-4907
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-4907
Project: Mesos
Issue Type: Epic
Components: technical debt
Reporter: Michael Park
Assignee: Michael Park
While {{cpplint}} has been a useful tool as a C++ linter for quite some time,
It carries limitations since it does its best without actually parsing C++.
[ClangTidy|http://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/] is a clang tool that is
based
off of Clang, and has the advantage that it has access to a full AST.
There are many checks that come built-in with {{clang-tidy}} which are very
useful,
but we can extend it to fit Mesos coding style and patterns as well.
The initial phase of the project will be to create a basis with which to
leverage
the existing checks as applicable to Mesos, then to create a scaffolding to add
custom checks, and ways to integrate the custom checks to infrastructure such
as Mesos ReviewBot, or Apache CI.
I've done some preliminary, experimental work for this for a Hackathon project
and have given a
[presentation|https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1z_qGzpY7Mt46TXxuLRW6M5HcCWBLRz6UJfd4bPknYeg/edit?usp=sharing]
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