Sounds good to me

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 5:17 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> We are very quickly approaching the "0 MyPy errors" state. This was a
> truly collaborative effort of many people :). Fantastic job !
>
> Now - I will shortly (when we reach 0!) re-enable MyPy as "failing" tests,
> but this might have a rather nasty side effect that some of the PRs
> approved and not rebased before might introduce new errors which will break
> main (and other PRs).
> I would like to mitigate it by introducing - for a couple of days/week a
> rule that all PRs should be rebased to main before merging. We already have
> a check for that (but it is enabled only in case of "sqlalchemy migration"
> changes). But I would like to enable it for any change that involves python
> code changes. We would run it for a few days and only enable MyPY as
> "obligatory" then and keep it enabled for a few days after.  Also I think -
> independently - committers should pay attention when migrating older PRs
> and ask the authors to rebase (but this is not easily visible as you really
> need to check status of the branch PR is coming from to see if the PR is
> rebased).
>
> Do you think those are good ideas?
>
> J.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 9:59 AM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Khailid (and Josh who commented on the issue) for volunteering to
>> help!
>>
>> And I think we need more helping hands!
>>
>> I have a very kind request to the whole community to help with the
>> effort as we have whooping 990 (!)  issues to fix. Without the help of
>> the community it will take a few weeks at least, but with lots of
>> helping hands we might do it much faster and get much stronger quality
>> protections in place.
>>
>> I merged a change and tested it on a few PRs
>> (https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/19914,
>> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/19912,
>> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/19911) to see how this can work
>> on it.
>>
>> We have now a very simple incremental way of fixing mypy that anyone
>> can contribute to - either as separate PRs or as part of their usual
>> contributions.
>>
>> In the issue https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/19891 we keep an
>> inventory of packages that need fixing (and I will keep it updated).
>>
>> How to help ?
>>
>> VERY EASY:
>>
>> * Checkout latest main.
>> * Run `./breeze build-image` and rebuild the image (you need it to get
>> latest mypy and related libraries included)
>> * `pip install pre-commit`
>> * `pre-commit install
>>
>> That's all that is needed as prerequisites.
>>
>> There are two ways to help:
>>
>> 1) If you make a regular contribution - whenever you commit your code,
>> mypy will fail with the issues that need fixing. It's as simple as
>> that. Just work as normal and make your pre-commit pass.
>> 2) If you want to take on correcting the whole package as a separate
>> PR, just commend in the https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/19891
>> that you are working on it and then you can do this:
>>
>> `find <DIRECTORY> -name "*.py" | xargs pre-commit run mypy --files`
>>
>> It will show you what needs to be fixed.
>>
>> One comment from TP who started commenting on the PRs (and I very much
>> agree to) - rather than slapping '# type ignore` everywhere, we should
>> aim to really bring stronger type checking - even if it means slight
>> refactors, or changing the structure of the code. a bit. The aim is
>> not to "pass" mypy, but to improve the quality of our code.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for cooperation!
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>> J.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 3:20 PM Khalid Mammadov
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Jarek,
>> >
>> >
>> > Sounds great!
>> >
>> > I can also help to look into these new issues and fix.
>> >
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Khalid
>> >
>> > On 30/11/2021 12:14, Jarek Potiuk wrote:
>> > > Hey all,
>> > >
>> > > I created an issue for that here:
>> > > https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/19891 but wanted to get a
>> > > lazy consensus on that one (I think it does not really need voting or
>> > > consensus, but If there is anyone who wants to comment/object fill
>> > > free).
>> > >
>> > > For a few weeks MyPy checks have been disabled after the switch to
>> > > Python 3.7 (per https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/19317).
>> > >
>> > > We should, however, re-enable it back as it is very useful in catching
>> > > a number of mistakes.
>> > >
>> > > I am re-adding the mypy pre-commit now - with mypy bumped to 0.910.
>> > > This version detects far more errors and we should fix them all before
>> > > we switch the CI check back.
>> > >
>> > > The way I am bringing it back in
>> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/19890:
>> > >
>> > > * mypy will be running for incremental changes in pre-commit, same as
>> > > before. This will enable incremental fixes of the code changed by
>> > > committers who use pre-commits locally
>> > >
>> > > * mypy on CI runs in non-failing mode. When the main pre-commit check
>> > > is run, mypy is disabled, but then it is run as a separate step (which
>> > > does not fail but will show the result of running mypy on all our
>> > > code). This will enable us to track the progress of fixes
>> > >
>> > > We should make a concerted effort now and incrementally fix all the
>> > > mypy incompatibilities - ideally package/by/package to avoid huge code
>> > > reviews.
>> > >
>> > > I'd really appreciate a number of people to contribute, so that we can
>> > > re-enable mypy back fully :).
>> > >
>> > > J.
>>
>

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