Michael Hucka

**Is your feature request related to a use case or problem? Please describe.** Add a CI workflow to lint & check YAML files. **Describe the solution you'd like** Per discussions...

Add an explanation about cirq-ft's status to its PyPI page

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[cirq-ft](https://pypi.org/project/cirq-ft/) is not a thing anymore, but it still exists on PyPI, and there's no pointer to Qualtran or other note about its status. We should do something about that....

First pass at updating CODEOWNERS

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This reorganizes the file slightly to - try to make it easier to find things (e.g., by not splitting up docs and code in completely separate sections) - put the...

The last edit on [`.github/CODEOWNERS`](https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq/blob/main/.github/CODEOWNERS) was 7 months ago. Currently, the GitHub page for that file shows a message at the top, "This CODEOWNERS file contains errors". We need to...

This is an attempt to address [code scanning alert #567]( https://github.com/quantumlib/OpenFermion/security/code-scanning/567) about unsafe deserialization of user-provided data. This adds some checking around the unmarshaling of stored operators.

This is adapted from, but heavily modified from, Cirq's check/all.

CodeQL security [scan report #567](https://github.com/quantumlib/OpenFermion/security/code-scanning/567) flagged a data loading operation in `src/openfermion/utils/operator_utils.py` as being usafe due because it uses a user-provided value. The warning is about lines 282-283, involving the...

operator_utils.py contains unsafe deserialization code

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### Describe the issue Security [code scanning alert 567](https://github.com/quantumlib/OpenFermion/security/code-scanning/567) flagged a case of deserializing a user-provided value without checking boundaries or doing other safety checks. It happens on line 283,...

The nightly test runs would often fail at least one test that fetched data from a Pubchem network service. The failures happened because sometimes the remote server would respond with...

### Describe the issue Many of the files currently show warnings if run through pylint, and various other things like the ordering of imports needs to be fixed up. ###...