manuals: add initial stylechecks with Vale

Use the "Vale" (https://vale.sh) tool to perform text style checks
Run "make stylecheck" to run the checks.

This just checks the text, not the Sphinx syntax style choices.

(From yocto-docs rev: d145e1dc45dc0792c8b8f7e73500b56face1e710)

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/Makefile b/documentation/Makefile
index 9fb6814c8f..60268e955c 100644
--- a/documentation/Makefile
+++ b/documentation/Makefile
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 # from the environment for the first two.
 SPHINXOPTS    ?= -W --keep-going -j auto
 SPHINXBUILD   ?= sphinx-build
+# Release notes are excluded because they contain contributor names and commit messages which can't be modified
+VALEOPTS      ?= --no-wrap --glob '!migration-guides/release-notes-*.rst'
+VALEDOCS      ?= .
 SOURCEDIR     = .
 IMAGEDIRS     = */svg
 BUILDDIR      = _build
@@ -20,7 +23,7 @@ endif
 help:
         @$(SPHINXBUILD) -M help "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
 
-.PHONY: all help Makefile clean publish epub latexpdf
+.PHONY: all help Makefile clean stylecheck publish epub latexpdf
 
 publish: Makefile html singlehtml
         rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/$(DESTDIR)/
@@ -46,6 +49,10 @@ PNGs := $(foreach dir, $(IMAGEDIRS), $(patsubst %.svg,%.png,$(wildcard $(SOURCED
 clean:
         @rm -rf $(BUILDDIR) $(PNGs) $(PDFs) poky.yaml sphinx-static/switchers.js
 
+stylecheck:
+        vale sync
+        vale $(VALEOPTS) $(VALEDOCS)
+
 epub: $(PNGs)
         $(SOURCEDIR)/set_versions.py
         @$(SPHINXBUILD) -M $@ "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)