Github user pwendell commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1550#issuecomment-50279563
@srowen your perspective could be helpful here. My concern was that say
Cloudera has some custom patches or back ports in a Spark package. Would they
find it annoying if the build fails if they do not meet the upstream style
guidelines in their own packages?
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