Keep in mind that we can always take a layered approach.  Could hire a
small number of cops, then add more as our crime rate decreases.

Have we done an initial run to see how much crime we have?  Is it a
daunting amount?


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Rob Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Kylo Ginsberg <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> HI all,
>>
>> We'd like to start using static analysis against the puppet code base
>> both to catch certain classes of coding errors and to enforce best coding
>> practices. Those are laudable goals of course, but there is plenty of room
>> for opinions on what qualifies. This email is a request to solicit some
>> opinions :)
>>
>> To kick the discussion off: at this point, we're leaning toward using
>> rubocop for static analysis, identifying a set of checkers ('cops' in
>> rubocop lingo) and then setting up some CI integration, either in travis-ci
>> or houndci, to enforce those cops against PRs.
>>
>> Rahul Gopinath has put together a PR with an initial proposal of 'cops'
>> we might use:
>>
>> https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/2855
>>
>> There's some initial discussion in that PR but the tldr of the proposal
>> is to enable these cops:
>>
>> Lint/UnreachableCode
>> Lint/ConditionPosition
>> Lint/UselessComparison
>> Lint/LiteralInterpolation
>> Lint/ElseLayout
>>
>> and then there's been some discussion on the PR around these two cops:
>>
>> Style/AndOr
>> Lint/AssignmentInCondition
>>
>> Each of those two checks catch coding patterns which both are a source of
>> some bugs and, at the same time are idiomatic in certain cases. So there's
>> room for discussion on those two.
>>
>> And then there are a *bunch* more cops for a variety of style/lint checks
>> which we could consider enabling in addition to the above. There's some
>> documentation of the various cops in the rubocop yaml files at:
>>
>> https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop/tree/master/config
>>
>> So, thoughts?
>>
>> Kylo
>>
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> I think it would greatly increase the quality of contributions if the
> "cops" started catching things and failing the PR builds. Being picky with
> what we start evaluating I think is the right call and what Andy and Rahul
> were already working out.
>
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