Dot Mozilla Reference
This linter is to help ensure that new code that adds references to “.mozilla” does not do so without ensuring that X Desktop Group (XDG) configuration path handling is taken care of.
The XDG Base Directory Specification provides a set of environment variables as well as directories that applications should follow to store their data: configurations, states, caches etc.
Firefox originally used $HOME/.mozilla but after Firefox 143 (bug 259356), it will prefer the environment variables over the legacy location.
If you are adding a path that would reference .mozilla, then you should:
Contact the OS Integration team
Add handling like e.g. in crash reporter client application
Add an exclusion to the relevant section in tools/lint/dot-mozilla-reference.yml
If you are adding code that uses
.mozillafor something other than referencing the data path, then you may:
Add an exclusion to the relevant section in tools/lint/dot-mozilla-reference.yml
Run Locally
The mozlint integration of codespell can be run using mach:
$ mach lint --linter dot-mozilla-reference <file paths>
Configuration
This linter is enabled on the whole code base. See the description above for details on handling exclusions.