spell check

[Aaron Conole]

Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> writes:

> 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.

I'll make sure to ask about it.

>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 3:54 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at 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?