Hi! I'm working on JCLOUDS-149 [1] to make the checkstyle configuration available to all repos. There are three options:
1. Copy the configuration to all repos (not maintainable). 2. Use a public URL pointing to the ckeckstyle.xml (offline builds won't be able to run checkstyle). 3. Add the checkstyle.xml to the class path and reference it in the maven-checkstyle-plugin configuration. I've made some changes in the jclouds-resources [2] project to include the checkstyle.xml in the generated jar, so it can be read from all repos. This configuration works for the other repos (I've tried it with jclouds-chef), but not entirely for the main repo. I'm quite blocked here, so let's summon the Maven gurus: In order to use the checkstyle.ml config from the classpath, the maven-checkstyle-plugin must declare the jclouds-resources dependency in its configuration. The problem is that the plugin is configured in the jclouds-project, which is the parent pom, and that means the jclouds-project needs to have the jclouds-resources.jar in the maven repo *before* it can be actually built, and this is where the build breaks. I haven't figured out how to properly configure this (if possible). Another option could be to reference file in the main repo as a local file, and override the maven-checkstyle-plugin configuration in every repo to use the one in the class path. That should work *but* that means overriding the plugin config in every pom.xml that inherits from jclouds-project (and this is every single maven project in labs, which is not practical). Does anyone have a better approach or ideas? Thanks! [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-149 [2] https://github.com/nacx/jclouds/commit/02199355b959bedea87f88f138503702ce549ada
