ci: add golangci-lint (#311)

Signed-off-by: Dhruv Jain <92215138+jaydee029@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Akshay Gaikwad <akgaikwad001@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Akshay Gaikwad <akgaikwad001@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/go.yml

@@ -33,3 +33,23 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
         uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
+
+  golangci-lint:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest]
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    steps:
+      - name: checkout the code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          # Getting go version from the go.mod file
+          go-version-file: 'go.mod'
+
+      - name: golangci-lint
+        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v4
+        with:
+          version: latest

.golangci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+linters:
+  # Disable all linters untill all errors are fixed.
+  disable-all: true
+  # uncomment as we fix the linting issues
+  enable:
+    # - errcheck
+    # - gosimple
+    # - govet
+    # - staticcheck
+    # - unused
+    # - ineffassign
+    - misspell