### What would you like to be improved? In #1716 we noticed that some POM files were using tabs for indentation while others used spaces. The width was also not consistent. ### How should we improve? - Update the checkstyle configuration so that it checks the POM files. The default is to check only Java files: ``` mvn help:describe -Dplugin=org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin -Ddetail | grep -A5 "includes" includes (Default: **\/*.java) Required: true User property: checkstyle.includes ``` - Use [EditorConfig](https://editorconfig.org/) and the available [maven plugin](https://github.com/ec4j/editorconfig-maven-plugin) to make sure we use the same width across files of the same type. - Fix the currently inconsistent files.