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+MozLint
+=======
+
+Linters are used in mozilla-central to help enforce coding style and avoid bad practices.
+Due to the wide variety of languages in use, this is not always an easy task.
+In addition, linters should be runnable from editors, from the command line, from review tools
+and from continuous integration. It's easy to see how the complexity of running all of these
+different kinds of linters in all of these different places could quickly balloon out of control.
+
+``Mozlint`` is a library that accomplishes several goals:
+
+1. It provides a standard method for adding new linters to the tree, which can be as easy as
+   defining a config object in a ``.yml`` file. This helps keep lint related code localized, and
+   prevents different teams from coming up with their own unique lint implementations.
+2. It provides a streamlined interface for running all linters at once. Instead of running N
+   different lint commands to test your patch, a single ``mach lint`` command will automatically run
+   all applicable linters. This means there is a single API surface that other tools can use to
+   invoke linters.
+3. With a simple taskcluster configuration, Mozlint provides an easy way to execute all these jobs
+   at review phase.
+
+``Mozlint`` isn't designed to be used directly by end users. Instead, it can be consumed by things
+like mach, phabricator and taskcluster.