explanations on the patchbot plugins

commit_messages

Check for the existence of a commit message for every commit.

coverage

Try to check that coverage did increase.

non_ascii

Look for the presence of non-ascii characters in python and cython files.

This detects the presence of the encoding line at the top of files.

doctest_continuation

Check that doctest continuation use the correct syntax, namely ....:

foreign_latex

Check that some bad latex code does not appear.

This means \choose, \over, \atop, \above, \overwithdelims, \atopwithdelims, \abovewithdelims.

All these commands are obsolete in latex.

oldstyle_print

Check that print is using python 3 syntax. (TO BE REMOVED)

python3_py

Look for some wrong patterns in python or rst files.

0) xrange

1) .iterkeys, .itervalues, .iteritems

2) basestring

3) __nonzero__

These are not allowed in python 3. (TO BE REMOVED)

python3_pyx

Look for some wrong patterns in cython files.

0) import six and from six import

python3

Check that some python3 incompatible code does not appear. (TO BE REMOVED)

2) ifilter, imap, izip

3) raise statements

4) cmp (use richcmp for comparison)

6) <> (the correct syntax is !=)

7) <type '[a-z]*'>

8) next

9) __metaclass__

10) except Exception, var

11) apply

12) sagenb (the legacy notebook is deprecated)

pyflakes

Run pyflakes on the modified .py files.

This typically reports about unused variables or imports, that you should remove.

Sometimes it gives false-positive warnings.

pycodestyle

Run pycodestyle on the modified .py files.

Currently, the selected options are W605, E401, E701, E702.

See pycodestyle documentation for more information.

blocks

Perform various checks, mainly about blocks in the documentation.

1) correct syntax is .. SEEALSO::

2) TESTS and EXAMPLES should be plural, and NOTE singular

3) no :: after INPUT and OUTPUT blocks, only a single colon

4) no :: after REFERENCE blocks, only a single colon

5) no  : at the end of lines, namely the colon should not be preceded by a space

6) no Returns at the start of lines, but Return for the first line (short summary) or This returns otherwise

triple_colon

Look for the presence of triple colons ::: or : ::

trac_links

Look for the presence of badly formatted trac roles :trac:

The correct syntax is :trac:`23456`

startup_time

Try to decide if the startup time is getting worse.

This performs a statistical analysis, which is not always pertinent.

startup_modules

Count modules imported at startup, and compare to stored data to see if this has increased.

docbuild

Build the html documentation.

docbuild_pdf

Build the pdf documentation.

This is not activated by default on the patchbot clients.

git_rev_list

The aim of this plugin is not clear.