Consider updating maven-checkstyle-plugin to version 2.8

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The release notes for version 2.8 of maven-checkstyle-plugin say it now 
supports aggregated reports in a multi-modules project, that may help with our 
multi-module site build.

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCHECKSTYLE-62

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark Hobson <markh@apache.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:09 AM
Subject: [ANN] Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.8 Released
To: announce@maven.apache.org, users@maven.apache.org, dev@maven.apache.org

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Checkstyle 
Plugin, version 2.8

Generates a report on violations of code style and optionally fails the build 
if violations are detected.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-checkstyle-plugin

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.8</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven Checkstyle Plugin - Version 2.8

Bug
* [MCHECKSTYLE-159] Optional treeWalker.cacheFile property must not be required

New Feature
* [MCHECKSTYLE-62] Support aggregated reports in a multi-modules project

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

Original issue reported on code.google.com by heue...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2011 at 3:10

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Original comment by heue...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2011 at 7:37

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement, Priority-Medium, Effort-Medium, OpSys-All, Toolkit-Piccolo2D.Java, Component-Build, Milestone-1.3.2

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Version 2.9 is now available

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dennis Lundberg <dennisl@apache.org>
Date: Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Subject: [ANN] Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.9 Released
To: announce@maven.apache.org, users@maven.apache.org
Cc: dev@maven.apache.org

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Checkstyle 
Plugin, version 2.9

Generates a report on violations of code style and optionally fails the build 
if violations are detected.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-checkstyle-plugin

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.9</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven Checkstyle Plugin - Version 2.9

Bug
* [MCHECKSTYLE-170] Test errors and failures on Windows
* [MCHECKSTYLE-168] checkstyle-aggregate give a wrong file count
* [MCHECKSTYLE-167] Unconfigured checkstyle plugin duplicates entries in 
aggregated report
* [MCHECKSTYLE-164] Multimodule Configuration example does not show how to 
configure build-tools pom
* [MCHECKSTYLE-152] encoding property in maven plugin is never set correctly to 
charset property of the checkstyle itself.
* [MCHECKSTYLE-146] mvn checkstyle:checkstyle KO, Unable to find the mojo, 
org/apache/maven/doxia/logging/Log
* [MCHECKSTYLE-145] maven-checkstyle-plugin 2.6 SinkFactory WARNING

Improvement
* [MCHECKSTYLE-165] Upgrade to checkstyle 5.5

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

Original comment by heue...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2012 at 10:12

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Original comment by heue...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2012 at 8:25

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Fixed on svn trunk

$ svn commit -m "Issue 229 ; update maven-checkstyle-plugin dependency version 
to 2.9" .
Committed revision 1176.

and branches/release-1.3.1

$ svn commit -m "Issue 229 ; update maven-checkstyle-plugin dependency version 
to 2.9" .
Committed revision 1177.

Original comment by heue...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2012 at 8:39

• Changed state: Fixed

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Original comment by heue...@gmail.com on 26 Nov 2013 at 5:42

• Changed state: Verified