Explore textlint

[rgaiacs]

textlint is linting tool for text and markdown. It sounds interesting to add to our pipeline.

[brownsarahm]

what is linting?

[rgaiacs]

@brownsarahm you can think of a spell check for code.

[gdevenyi]

It would be really nice if we could get something like this integrated into a Travis/CircleCI on the lessons, so that PRs are checked for markdownness

[maxim-belkin]

We're using Kramdown.
Lessons are checked with make lesson-check for some common mistakes and make site (jekyll build). If something is not right - it fails and reports an error. I think we should probably start by asking maintainers to try it and give feedback. I'll try it myself :)

[maxim-belkin]

I wish we had @maintainers

[gdevenyi]

Thanks @maxim-belkin I'm aware of make lesson-check, but that has be done manually with a local copy. I would like to see a CI system do this automatically for PRs rather than manually.

[maxim-belkin]

This is being done automatically now: there is travis.yml in bin/boilerplate that you can use in your repository. We're using Travis in https://github.com/swcarpentry/python-novice-inflammation/pulls