Travis?

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Travis?

awelch83 opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

In a nutshell, what is the purpose of travis? Can it be of some benefit to this repository?

Prakhar Srivastav · Answer 1 · Fri Oct 07 2016 13:18:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi! Well, Travis is a CI tool and is usually used to run tests etc on every commit or a PR.
So it could be used to ensure that any pull-requests to this repo follow certain rules. One such example could be that whenever a new PR is submitted, Travis checks that the link is valid (doesn't 404).

I'd ideally like to have a way to make sure that contributors stick to the correct formatting / alphabetization etc. However, since we aren't quite dealing with structured text, it might be hard to implement this check.

Hope that answers your question.

Aaron Welch · Answer 2 · Sat Oct 08 2016 02:24:22 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for your reply, Prakhar! I'd like to try to implement this. I figure that I can start first with the 404-check, and then functionality can be expanded from there. I was also thinking that it might be nice to be able to set up an automated process that would scan all existing URLs at a set interval to check for broken links

Prakhar Srivastav · Answer 3 · Sat Oct 08 2016 02:59:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sure! Thanks for taking this up! For the 404 checking, you can refer to Awesome Bot. I'd also suggest taking a look at this PR in order to understand the issue we had when we tried to implement it for this repo. I'm sure @awesome-bot would love to chip in.

awesome-bot · Answer 4 · Mon Oct 10 2016 21:45:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

yeah the awesome-bot tool can help check for links
there's another tool called danger that can enforce some other rules https://github.com/danger/danger