[openstack-dev] Bring pylint check to gate nova

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Fri Aug 17 12:04:15 UTC 2012


Doug Hellmann wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Michael Barton
> <mike-launchpad at weirdlooking.com
> <mailto:mike-launchpad at weirdlooking.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I don't want to gate on pylint.  It's a good tool for improving code,
>     but it's noisy and I either don't agree with or don't care about a lot
>     of stuff it reports on per-commit.
> 
>     - Mike
> 
> +1
> 
> Projects I've seen try to use pylint always end up spending a lot of
> time dealing with the false-positives and excessively pedantic "rules,"
> usually to the detriment of code readability and developer productivity.

+1

I think pylint is a good QA tool to find bugs and improve code. Not so
great as a binary all-or-nothing gate.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack



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