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Switch from `pre-commit` to `prek`

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Domain
build-system, ci-cd, tooling

Research direction

Begin by locating CloudStack's current pre-commit configuration, GitHub workflow entry points, and Makefile targets; the issue does not name their paths. Compare those entry points with the linked Lucene.NET and Sedona PREK.md and workflow examples, then verify that the existing checks run successfully with prek and the old pre-commit path is no longer used.

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Description

component:build type:improvement

"Although prek is pretty new, it's already powering real‑world projects like CPython, Apache Airflow, FastAPI, and more projects are picking it up—see Who is using prek?. If you're looking for an alternative to pre-commit, please give it a try—we'd love your feedback!"

https://github.com/j178/prek

https://prek.j178.dev

Example workflows:

https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/blob/master/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml

https://github.com/apache/sedona/blob/master/.github/workflows/pre-commit-manual.yml

https://github.com/apache/sedona/blob/master/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml

Quick read first:

https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/blob/master/PREK.md

Longer read:

https://github.com/apache/sedona/blob/master/docs/setup/compile.md#code-quality-checks-with-prek-uv-and-make

Example Makefile https://github.com/apache/sedona/blob/master/Makefile

refs https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/8491

refs https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12836

ASF Approved:

https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-actions/blob/1affe4095bb84ec7d39f229556b6906232d39c92/approved_patterns.yml#L229

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