1534836 - Add more options to rejected-words linter

Status: NEW

(Developer Infrastructure :: Lint and Formatting, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Gerald Squelart (he/him) (not at Mozilla since 2022-09-15)]

To help make our source code&comments more inclusive, could reviewbot catch inappropriate words and suggest replacements?
This should catch these words not only in comments but also in identifiers.

Here's a list of suggestions intended for slackbot, maybe it could be adapted to reviewbot?
https://github.com/randsleadershipslack/documents-and-resources/blob/master/RandsInclusiveLanguage.tsv

Please check with the D&I team for a good starting list. ( https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PR/Diversity+and+Inclusion#DiversityandInclusion-OurTeam )

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:sylvestre, could you have a look please?

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Maybe we could extend codespell to have this support. Either upstream or by adding a new dictionary locally.
Note that codespell is only running on files for now, not commit messages (which could be an improvement too).

Or just write some silly regexp like in https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/tools/lint/cpp-virtual-final.yml

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8) (afk until 21st July)]

We already have the rejected-words linter, so this would request would seem to fit with that.