Hi,
there is interesting thread in Maven dev list [1], which discusses
automatic spotlessApply as part of build. I personally use exactly same
approach on other projects - i.e. compileJava depends on spotlessApply.
The benefit is that CI rarely fails due to spotless (the only
possibility is a commit that was not even compiled) and I didn't come
across any significant drawbacks. The question therefore is, should we
automatically apply spotless as part of (local) build or do we have any
reasons why not to? CI builds should use just spotlessCheck, because
local changes will not be committed nevertheless.
Jan
[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/9703k96md8lnlwnd0cz1qmqqkrkldtty
