diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
index 0e9268c0..e799a602 100644
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ charset = utf-8
 trim_trailing_whitespace = true
 insert_final_newline = true
 end_of_line = lf
-max_line_length = null
+max_line_length = 9999
 
 # YAML indentation
 [*.{yml,yaml}]
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-sanity.yaml b/.github/workflows/python-sanity.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ac124d65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-sanity.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+name: Python sanity
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version: [2.7, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8]
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+
+    - name: Lint with flake8
+      run: |
+        # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+        # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings.
+        flake8 . --exit-zero \
+        | awk -F: '{ gsub(/^[ \t]+/,"",$4); print "::error file=" $1 ",line=" $2 ",col=" $3 "::" $4 }'
+
+    - name: Run tests
+      run: |
+        coverage run
+        coverage report
+
+    - name: Upload coverage report to Codecov
+      env:
+        CODECOV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+      run: |
+        coverage xml
+        bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) \
+        || echo "::warning ::Codecov upload failed"
+
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index ae876e22..48bcf2c7 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ source =
     service.py
     .config/generate_xml.py
 omit = tests/*
-command_line = -m pytest
+command_line = -m pytest --verbose