I believe that it was removed because it was making the build unstable. Probably worth trolling back the the email archives.
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote: > Why is checkstyle removed from our pom? Is there a particular reason for > that? > > I would suggest to reintroduce it and make the build fail on violations > to increase code quality. > > Best, > Sebastian >
