Re: spell check

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

16/11/2021 14:46, Lincoln Lavoie:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> This has been disabled in the lab.   I think it should be possible to get
> to a base state where there aren't errors, it just requires getting past
> all of the acronyms and other "strange" (to a spell checker's prospective)
> parts of the documentation, like function names / prototypes, etc.

There will be always new exceptions.
It looks more worry than benefit.

> Part of the idea behind putting the spell checker scripts, and more
> importantly the dictionary and exceptions, into the devtools would be to
> allow the community to manage that list of exceptions, etc.

I'm not sure it's good to add this requirement on contributors.

Anyway that's a topic for techboard meeting.


> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 3:54 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > After some thoughts, I think it is not reasonable to check spelling
> > in the CI, because we will always have false positives.
> >
> > Please could we disable "ci/iol-spell-check-testing" to avoid warnings?