Does any part of our CI use pycodestyle?

[nstarman]

We have a configuration for pycodestyle, but it isn't used in our CI.
Why carry configs for tools we don't use in our CI? Can we get rid of it?

[neutrinoceros]

I believe flake8 respects pycodestyle's configuration, so it would be the same question as to why we carry a .flake8 file. Last I heard, @pllim was having issues with pre-commit+ruff on windows so the argument was that keeping these configurations around helped mitigate this hurdle and and didn't hurt. It seems to me that we need to make sure the recommended tooling isn't getting in the way of anyone's workflow (at least not core devs).

Maybe the solution it fixing everyone's broken installs during the upcoming coordination meeting ? (I think I'm only half joking)

[pllim]

Still not too late to propose topic at astropy/astropy-project#349 for the unconference/hack sessions maybe.