[ACCUMULO-4818] Upgrade to checkstyle 8+

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: build
• Labels: newbie pull-request-available
• Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
• Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
• Created: 16/Feb/18 03:27
• Updated: 08/Jan/19 02:32
• Resolved: 16/Oct/18 19:28

Description

Working on for ACCUMULO-4817, I noticed that our checkstyle version could be updated. However, this will involve some changes to our checkstyle configuration, since some of that is no longer compatible with the latest version of checkstyle (8.8).

Issue Links

• relates to: ACCUMULO-4817 Update build plugins and parent POM (Apache 19)
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #704