[CASSANDRA-18435] Provide checkstyle in ant scripts on all branches; improve documentation on recommended JDK env for dev

• Type: Task
• Status: Triage Needed
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Build
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Josh McKenzie
• Created: 07/Apr/23 14:01
• Updated: 08/Apr/23 08:47

Description

See CASSANDRA-18262 comment thread for discussion leading up to this

1. We should checkstyle only on the lowest supported JDK for our builds in CI
2. Having checkstyle be part of the local ant jar target for all supported JDKs would be nice ergonomics for folks who are working with another supported JDK version so they don't get surprised in CI
3. We should tighten up our docs in terms of recommendations on which JDK to build/run with locally and help smooth out that process for folks

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-18423 Test failure: org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.indexsummary.IndexSummaryTest.testLargeIndexSummary
• relates to: CASSANDRA-18262 Switch checkstyle running only with JDK8 to be run with JDK11