> Ah, right, in OGM we check for only one empty line at the end of a file as well. Hardy does occassionally do several lines in HV, though. So we should omit this check here for the sake of simplicity.

> That being said, I don't think it's fair that you need to bother with all that formatting issues which have been existent before you ever touched the code base. So if you'd want to help out with addressing, that would be great and much appreciated, but if you don't feel like doing so, I can handle it as well.

+1 Don't worry too much about this one. I just mentioned it, because I saw the marker on GitHub. Personally I am not even 100% what this rule is good for ;-)

+1 Btw, what is the problem with the existing checkstyle check? 

> Oh no, it's not a bother, every task no matter how small, is a chance for me to learn something new.

In case you want to address this, I recommend you do this in a dedicated issue and commit. For my part it would have been ok to make this part of this pull request, if only your files and a couple of additional files were effected, but if it becomes more work, a dedicated issue seems more appropriate.