bazel linting support

[tandel-pratik]

It'd be great if we had linting support via bazel. We have a large monorepo and using bazel to lint would save a lot of time since it'd prevent recompiles.

[amckinney]

This is on the roadmap! It isn't our biggest priority right now, but expect to see this in the future. You can also follow along at #496 for some related tasks (i.e. we plan to accomplish this by reaching parity between buf protoc and protoc).

[amckinney]

Also note that in the interim (before we have dedicated Bazel rules), you can actually use protoc-gen-buf-lint for this. It's actually built specifically for the bazel use case. Let us know if this helps you!

[tandel-pratik]

Thanks @amckinney i also found that there's already support for this https://rules-proto-grpc.com/en/latest/lang/buf.html

and it might be worth you pointing folks there in the future.

[amckinney]

Thanks @tandel-pratik! This issue has been superseded by a more general discussion on Bazel rules (#681).