golangci: update config file

.golangci.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 run:
   # timeout for analysis
-  deadline: 10m
+  timeout: 10m
 
 linters-settings:
   govet:
@@ -11,31 +11,89 @@ linters-settings:
     simplify: true
 
 linters:
-  disable-all: true
-  enable:
-    - asciicheck
-    - deadcode
-    - dupl
-    - errcheck
-    - goimports
-    - gosec
-    - gosimple
-    - govet
-    - ineffassign
-    - nolintlint
+  enable-all: true
+  disable:
+    # Global variables are used in many places throughout the code base.
+    - gochecknoglobals
+
+    # We want to allow short variable names.
+    - varnamelen
+
+    # We want to allow TODOs.
+    - godox
+
+    # Instances of table driven tests that don't pre-allocate shouldn't trigger
+    # the linter.
     - prealloc
-    - staticcheck
-    - structcheck
-    - typecheck
-    - unconvert
-    - unused
-    - varcheck
+
+    # Init functions are used by loggers throughout the codebase.
+    - gochecknoinits
+
+    # Deprecated linters. See https://golangci-lint.run/usage/linters/.
+    - bodyclose
+    - contextcheck
+    - nilerr
+    - noctx
+    - rowserrcheck
+    - sqlclosecheck
+    - tparallel
+    - unparam
+    - wastedassign
+    - execinquery
+
+    # Disable gofumpt as it has weird behavior regarding formatting multiple
+    # lines for a function which is in conflict with our contribution
+    # guidelines. See https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt/issues/235.
+    - gofumpt
+
+    # Disable whitespace linter as it has conflict rules against our
+    # contribution guidelines. See https://github.com/bombsimon/wsl/issues/109.
+    - wsl
+
+    # Allow using default empty values.
+    - exhaustruct
+
+    # Allow exiting case select faster by putting everything in default.
+    - exhaustive
+
+    # Allow tests to be put in the same package.
+    - testpackage
+
+    # Don't run the cognitive related linters.
+    - gocognit
+    - gocyclo
+    - maintidx
+    - cyclop
+
+    # Allow customized interfaces to be returned from functions.
+    - ireturn
+
+    # Disable too many blank identifiers check. We won't be able to run this
+    # unless a large refactor has been applied to old code.
+    - dogsled
+
+    # We don't wrap errors.
+    - wrapcheck
+
+    # We use ErrXXX instead.
+    - errname
+
+    # Disable nil check to allow returning multiple nil values.
+    - nilnil
 
-    # Others to consider that do not pass presently:
-    # - nilerr
-    # - makezero
+    # We often split tests into separate test functions. If we are forced to
+    # call t.Helper() within those functions, we lose the information where
+    # exactly a test failed in the generated failure stack trace.
+    - thelper
+
+    # The linter is too aggressive and doesn't add much value since reviewers
+    # will also catch magic numbers that make sense to extract.
+    - gomnd
 
 issues:
+  # Only check issues in the new code.
+  new-from-rev: master
+
   exclude-rules:
     # Exclude gosec from running for tests so that tests with weak randomness
     # (math/rand) will pass the linter.