Thanks @cpuguy83. Two questions:

• Have you signed the Google CLA at some point in the past? We're still using that for now. review license and CLA #119
• Is there a related issue with regards to golint not working with older versions of Go? (just to document one of the reasons for this change)

I've removed AppVeyor. This is the appveyor.yml export in case we ever need to bring it back. I will remove the badge shortly.

version: 1.0.{build}
clone_folder: C:\GOPATH\src
environment:
  GOPATH: C:\GOPATH
build_script:
- cmd: >-
    go version

    go get -v -d -t github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify
test_script:
- cmd: go test -v --race -cover ./...

Yes, I've signed the Google CLA, FYI.