Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Wei Ji <23487320+weiji14@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: seisman

.github/workflows/ci_tests.yaml

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
           pip install black blackdoc docformatter flake8 pylint isort
           sudo apt-get install dos2unix
 
-      - name: Formatting check (black and flake8)
+      - name: Formatting check (black, blackdoc, docformatter, flake8 and isort)
         run: make check
 
       - name: Linting (pylint)

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ common errors.
 The [`Makefile`](Makefile) contains rules for running both checks:
 
 ```bash
-make check   # Runs flake8, black, blackdoc, docformatter and isort (in check mode)
+make check   # Runs black, blackdoc, docformatter, flake8 and isort (in check mode)
 make lint    # Runs pylint, which is a bit slower
 ```
 

Makefile

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ help:
 	@echo "  install   install in editable mode"
 	@echo "  test      run the test suite (including doctests) and report coverage"
 	@echo "  format    run black, blackdoc, docformatter and isort to automatically format the code"
-	@echo "  check     run code style and quality checks (black, blackdoc, docformatter, isort and flake8)"
+	@echo "  check     run code style and quality checks (black, blackdoc, docformatter, flake8 and isort)"
 	@echo "  lint      run pylint for a deeper (and slower) quality check"
 	@echo "  clean     clean up build and generated files"
 	@echo "  distclean clean up build and generated files, including project metadata files"