White Space Cleanup Before Linting?

[kscottz]

I was taking a look at a PR last Friday and I finally got fed up with dealing with whitespace and newline errors from the linter. It feels like we spend way too much time dealing with whitespace errors, and those fixes block way too many pull requests. These errors can be really frustrating for new contributors and slow down smaller changes,.

I did a cursory search for a reStructured Text linter that attempts to fix the errors it finds. While that search didn't return any usable results I did find this generic whitespace cleanup Github action based on this tool.

Would the team be willing to try inserting this action prior to the linting action? I'm not convinced it would work but it is probably worth giving a try.