Use Craft Application's Linter Service
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Current evaluation
Closed by mr-cal (2026-01-21) as a bounty with no implementation. craft-application#907 (commit a76bcaa6) merged the shared Linter Service, and the migration work was moved to charmcraft#2546, still open.
Resolution: closed superseded
Reason: Maintainer @mr-cal closed the bounty on 2026-01-21 after noting it was blocked on the craft-application Linter Service. That framework landed via craft-application#907 (commit a76bcaa6), and the actual linter migration effort was carried forward in charmcraft#2546, which remains open with Charmcraft's 11 custom checkers still on AnalysisService.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
No scores available.
Issue body
### What needs to get done
Migrate to the Linter Service as implemented at https://github.com/canonical/craft-application/issues/782
#### Acceptance criteria
* All linters are implementations of the Craft Application class
* The lint command uses the LinterService
* Any other uses of linters use the LinterService
### Why it needs to get done
Snapcraft and Charmcraft lint snaps and charms respectively at the end of the lifecycle.
These linters don’t share common code and don’t have a similar UX. Additionally, there isn’t a way to add linters to other *craft apps without significant code duplication.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed superseded | Closed by mr-cal (2026-01-21) as a bounty with no implementation. craft-application#907 (commit a76bcaa6) merged the shared Linter Service, and the migration work was moved to charmcraft#2546, still open. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed superseded | LinterService bounty closed without implementation; migration moved to charmcraft#2546 after the shared framework merged in craft-application#907. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Bounty closed without implementing the LinterService migration after an upstream dependency. The framework merged in craft-application#907; migration is now tracked in charmcraft#2546. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Bounty closed without migration after waiting on craft-application#782; its LinterService framework later merged in #907, with follow-up work tracked in charmcraft#2546. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Abandoned without implementation. Migrating linters to the Craft Application LinterService was blocked by the upstream dependency, and the associated $400 bounty was closed. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | The bounty to migrate linters to the Craft Application Linter Service was closed without implementation. Maintainers blocked progress pending an upstream dependency, and the bounty expired without a merged solution. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Migrating linters to a shared Craft Application service was proposed as a bounty task. The bounty and issue were abandoned without implementation due to a blocked dependency. |
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Related work
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Blocked By:
craft-application#907
(confidence 90%)
Merged PR delivering the shared linter service framework (a76bcaa6) that had blocked this bounty.
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Superseded By:
charmcraft#2546
(confidence 88%)
The 'Use Craft Application's Linter Service' migration is tracked there and remains open.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #2315 Use Craft Application's Linter Service | charmcraft | closed | LinterService bounty closed without implementation; craft-application#907 delivered the shared service, and Charmcraft migration was retriaged as canonical/charmcraft#2546. | |
| #2546 Use Craft Application's Linter Service | charmcraft | open | Charmcraft’s triaged refactor to adopt Craft Application’s merged LinterService remains open; 11 custom checkers still run through Charmcraft’s AnalysisService. | |
| #5971 Use Craft Application's Linter Service | snapcraft | open | Triaged refactor to replace Snapcraft's bespoke linter runner and reporting with Craft Application's LinterService; the prerequisite is merged, but migration remains unimplemented. | |
| #141 Add a basic linter service | craft-application | closed | Implemented the extensible linter framework in craft-application by merging PR #907 (commit a76bcaa6), providing shared linter registration and execution for downstream apps. | |
| #907 feat(linter): add linter service framework | craft-application | merged | Merged PR #907 as commit a76bcaa6, adding a shared Linter Service for consistent downstream registration and execution of linters and closing craft-application#782. | |
| #782 New Linter Service | craft-application | closed | Merged PR #907 (commit a76bcaa6), adding AbstractLinter, LinterService, Testcraft integration, and linter-author documentation; this completed the bounty and closed #782. |