Improves SPDX header linting to ensure consistent license metadata across
the codebase.
Key changes:
- Enforce deterministic tag ordering (License-Identifier, FileCopyrightText,
FileContributor) to ensure consistency, prevent merge conflicts, and
simplify code reviews
- Add contributor alias mapping to consolidate contributors with multiple
emails or name variations (e.g., "nickl-" → "Nick Lombard")
- Add --contributions-strategy option with "blame" (current code authors)
and "log" (all historical contributors) to support different attribution
philosophies
- Add optional path argument to lint specific files or directories
- Add --fix option to automatically correct header issues
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-4-5-20251101)
Makes it so the index looks more like a cheatsheet, condensing
information instead of making long lists that require lots of
scrolling to explore.
Additionally, the happy path for each validator was also
added, providing a quick reference use for comparison.
The direct markdown links were replaced by titled markdown
references, offering mouse-over tooltips over links that
display the validator one-line description.
To ensure a proper source of truth for these new index
goodies, the AssertionMessageLinter was modified to
verify that the first assertion in each doc is a
single-line validator that passes (a happy path), further
making our documentation conventions more solid.
Introduces a Markdown linter for checking the Changelog format.
"See Also" was transformed into a section to make it easier to
handle it with the `Content` class. The "Related" linter was
simplified to reflect that change too.
An additional "alignment" parameter was added to markdown table
generators, allowing the padding and headers to be explicitly
marked with a specific left (-1), middle (0) or right(1)
alignment.
Existing files were fixed using the `fix` option after the
changes.
This commit introduces REUSE compliance by annotating all files
with SPDX information and placing the reused licences in the
LICENSES folder.
We additionally removed the docheader tool which is made obsolete
by this change.
The main LICENSE and copyright text of the project is now not under
my personal name anymore, and it belongs to "The Respect Project
Contributors" instead.
This change restores author names to several files, giving the
appropriate attribution for contributions.
There's more value on showing how `assert()` displays the validation
messages than simply showing if `isValid()` returns `true` or `false`.
However, that increases the chances of having outdated documentation, so
I created a doc linter that updates the Markdown files with the
correct message.
We don't often change the tempaltes of validators, but when we do it's
extremely important that the documentation of the validators match the
exact template the validator has.
When we make changes to the code, renaming variables, or adding
parameters to a validator, it's easy to forget to update the
documentation.
With this change, we avoid having a disparity between the documentation
and the code.
