In order for a pull request adding a linter to be reviewed, the linter and the PR must follow some requirements.

Pull Request Description

• It must have a link to the linter repository.
• It must provide a short description of the linter.

Linter

• It must not be a duplicate of another linter or a rule of a linter. (the team will help to verify that)
• It must have a valid license (AGPL is not allowed) and the file must contain the required information by the license, ex: author, year, etc.
• The linter repository must have a CI and tests.
• It must usego/analysis.
• It must have a valid tag, ex:v1.0.0,v0.1.0.
• It must not containinit().
• It must not containpanic(),log.fatal(),os.exit(), or similar.
• It must not have false positives/negatives. (the team will help to verify that)
• It must have tests inside golangci-lint.

The Linter Tests Inside Golangci-lint

• They must have at least one std lib import.
• They must work withT=<name of the linter test file>.go make test_linters. (the team will help to verify that)

.golangci.reference.yml

• The linter must be added to the list of available linters (alphabetical case-insensitive order).
  • enable anddisable options
• If the linter has a configuration, the exhaustive configuration of the linter must be added (alphabetical case-insensitive order)
  • The values must be different from the default ones.
  • The default values must be defined in a comment.
  • The option must have a short description.

Others Requirements

• The files (tests and linter) inside golangci-lint must have the same name as the linter.
• The.golangci.yml of golangci-lint itself must not be edited and the linter must not be added to this file.
• The linters must be sorted in the alphabetical order (case-insensitive) in theManager.GetAllSupportedLinterConfigs(...) and.golangci.reference.yml.
• The load mode (WithLoadMode(...)):
  • if the linter doesn't use types:goanalysis.LoadModeSyntax
  • goanalysis.LoadModeTypesInfo requiredWithLoadForGoAnalysis() in theManager.GetAllSupportedLinterConfigs(...)
• The version inWithSince(...) must be the next minor version (v1.X.0) of golangci-lint.

Recommendations

• The linter should not use SSA. (currently, SSA does not support generics)
• The linter repository should have a readme and linting.
• The linter should be published as a binary. (useful to diagnose bug origins)

The golangci-lint team will edit this comment to check the boxes before and during the review.

This checklist does not imply that we will accept the linter.

1. Naming proposal – nozeroassign.zero is too general, is not it?
2. Maybe better to make it part ofineffassign?
3. Does it coverHow to check 'Declaring Empty Slices' #3248?

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