Refactoring project: main issue

[queengooborg]

This issue is solely for one purpose: to track a series of PRs and issues related to a refactoring project I'm working on to update the scripts and linters for consistency, legibility, and code quality. This issue is purely based upon my own goals and priorities for the scripts/linters, not particularly MDN's. PRs/issues related to this project are the following:

Critical Priority

• Ranged to non-ranged comparison bug (Fix a bug when comparing ranged version to non-ranged version #5576)
• Optimize main linter script (Refactor + optimize main linter file #5300)

High Priority

• Create function to run "global" linters (Create function to run "global" linters #5939)
• Display lowest version_added for arrays in consistency linter (fix(linter/test-consistency): display lowest version_added for arrays #5845)
• Link fix script (Add link fix script #5484)
• Notes linter (Enforce specific HTML elements and single spaces in notes #5591)
• index.js refactoring (Refactor and update index.js to use fdir() #5653)
• Use ESLint to enforce code quality (Use ESLint to enforce code quality #5252)
• Browsers cannot have multiple current versions (Browsers cannot have multiple current versions #6160)

Medium Priority

• Descriptions linter consolidation (Consolidate descriptions linter functions into one #4872)
• Dead URL linter (Check for dead/broken URLs (disabled by default) #5228)
• Version tips/hints (Add tips/hints to version test #5605)
• Utils + regex test refactoring (Refactor regex test into Mocha unittest #5663)
• Executable script and 'use strict' consistency (Refactor: executable script consistency #5890)
• Convert all functions to arrow functions (Refactor: convert all functions to arrow functions #5894)
• Make all functions top-level (non-scoped) (Refactor: Move functions in linters to top-level #5916)
• Add JavaScript engines to browsers (Add JavaScript engine to browser schema #5957 / Add JavaScript engine data to browsers #5958)

Low Priority

• Enforce .editorconfig (Linter: enforce .editorconfig? #5362)
• Reverse-chronological support block ordering (Migration 005: Order multiple support blocks reverse-chronologically #5352, migration 5)
• Feature sorting updates (Migration 006: Move secure context + worker support below constructor in feature sorting #5353, migration 6)
• Move link test from styling to links (Move a link test from styling to links #5671)
• Remove constructor test from styling tests (Remove constructor test from styling test file #5672)
• Update all JSDocs (Refactor: update all JSDocs #5891)

Please note: this is mostly a personal project of mine, and is not intended to be interpreted as a key goal of BCD. Please refer to the pinned issues to view BCD's goals.

[ddbeck]

Thanks for opening this issue, @vinyldarkscratch. I think this makes it much easier to see the overall picture of what you're doing with the infra PRs. 👍

Also, minor thing: most of the emoji here don't render on my computer (all but critical). Maybe the priorities could be split up with headings, instead?

[queengooborg]

Sure thing! I just updated the list to use headings instead of emojis. 😉

[queengooborg]

I decided, for organizational purposes, to migrate this into a project board: https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/projects/5 As such, I will go ahead and close out that issue. (I figured this would be alright, but let me know if I should switch back or otherwise!)