Richard

I feel rather Checkstyle itself should expose all the necessary metadata I agree but we had a discussion about this and we have not come to a conclusion on what data should be in the metadata and how it should be stored. One point of discussion was: https://github.com/checkstyle/regression-tool/issues/29 I suggest you bring it up again in an issue in main project and keep asking for a solution from us. I imagine sevntu metadata is maintained alongside the checks, so whenever you change something...

I am unsure how this can help with eclipse-cs metadata maintenance. As I understand I would still need to meticulously check all changes in a Checkstyle release, whether they have any relevance for the metadata. Could you give an example of something you think would have to be manually done and couldn't be automated? I can only speak from my experience with sevntu's eclipse-cs files. Even if you can't automate everything, doing some should alleviate some of the stress. The most complete documentation...

I am unsure how this can help with eclipse-cs metadata maintenance. As I understand I would still need to meticulously check all changes in a Checkstyle release, whether they have any relevance for the metadata. Could you give an example of something you think would have to be manually done and couldn't be automated? I can only speak from my experience with sevntu's eclipse-cs files. The most complete documentation we have is in the xdocs where we have another junit to make sure it has required sections,...

Most of the time the bulk of work is hunting down Checkstyle changes which require metadata changes using the Checkstyle release notes. I assume you mean the metadata files that define checks, properties, and they descriptions, values, etc... like \net.sf.eclipsecs.checkstyle\metadata... Have you though of automating most of it? Sevntu automates it's eclipse-cs files using junits that tell when something is wrong or missing in the file. We use reflection and our inner utils to identify checks and...

[PATCH] Added missing final for variable with anonymous class

Add support for 'omitIgnoredModules'

BeforeExecutionExclusionFileFilter not supported

The only slowdown in Checkstyle that comes to mind is Javadoc parsing which we fixed...