first attempt at basic travis build

.travis.yml

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+script:
+    - ./validate.sh

validate.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+# check there are no formatting issues
+GOFMT_LINES=`gofmt -l . | wc -l | xargs`
+test $GOFMT_LINES -eq 0 || echo "gofmt needs to be run, ${GOFMT_LINES} files have issues"
+
+# run the tests for the root package
+go test .