If anyone has ideas on the review comments here, I'm all ears: https://reviews.apache.org/r/40219/ In particular, Aurora would love pants python checkstyle, but they are leery of having to maintain a plugin to do so. Granted the plugin is trivial from our point of view, but we're skewed in perception as Zameer's comments bring into focus. Maybe @mammoth-pharmacist-54215 has ideas. The crux afaict is deciding if we were to ship checkstyle-style tasks as pre-installed, we'd have to express an opinion in the pants 1.0.0 about which "phase" the goal runs in; ie at the end of

compile

or as a standalone top-level goal or both or ...