diff --git a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
index 2b8eb5d86..d8ccfc3ed 100644
--- a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
@@ -20,10 +20,11 @@ steps:
       command: >
         precommit/src/main/shell/test-patch.sh
         --brief-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/brief.txt
-        --bugcomments=briefreport,htmlout,buildkiteannotate
+        --bugcomments=briefreport,csvout,htmlout,buildkiteannotate
         --console-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/console.txt
         --docker
         --docker-cache-from=ghcr.io/apache/yetus-base:main
+        --csv-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/report.csv
         --html-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/report.html
         --java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64
         --patch-dir=/tmp/yetus-out
diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 7b68ed761..08798682f 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ jobs:
              --patch-dir=/tmp/yetus-out
              --html-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/report.html
              --console-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/console.txt
+             --csv-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/report.csv
              --brief-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/brief.txt
-             --bugcomments=briefreport,htmlout,junit
+             --bugcomments=briefreport,csvout,htmlout,junit
              --tests-filter=checkstyle,test4tests
              --junit-report-xml=/tmp/yetus-out/junit-report.xml
 
diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index 93695f5eb..086c27440 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ yetus_task:
              ${CIRRUS_WORKING_DIR}/precommit/src/main/shell/test-patch.sh
              --basedir="${CIRRUS_WORKING_DIR}"
              --brief-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/brief.txt
-             --bugcomments=briefreport,htmlout,junit
+             --bugcomments=briefreport,console,csvout,htmlout,junit
              --console-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/console.txt
+             --csv-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/report.csv
              --html-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/report.html
              --java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64
              --junit-report-xml=/tmp/yetus-out/junit.xml
diff --git a/.github/workflows/yetus.yml b/.github/workflows/yetus.yml
index b7d42800d..5e4eb07e6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/yetus.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/yetus.yml
@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ jobs:
           --archive-list="checkstyle-errors.xml,spotbugsXml.xml"
           --basedir="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/src"
           --brief-report-file="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/out/brief.txt"
-          --bugcomments=console,briefreport,github,htmlout,junit
+          --bugcomments=console,briefreport,csvout,github,htmlout,junit
           --console-report-file="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/out/console.txt"
+          --csv-report-file="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/out/report.csv"
           --docker
           --docker-cache-from=ghcr.io/apache/yetus-base:main
           --github-token="${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 1190222d7..eae1a60ca 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -25,9 +25,10 @@ buretoolbox-job:
       --plugins=all
       --java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64
       --html-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/report.html
+      --csv-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/report.csv
       --console-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/console.txt
       --brief-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/brief.txt
-      --bugcomments=briefreport,htmlout,gitlab,junit
+      --bugcomments=briefreport,csvout,htmlout,gitlab,junit
       --tests-filter=checkstyle,test4tests
       --junit-report-xml=/tmp/yetus-out/junit-report.xml
 
diff --git a/.semaphore/semaphore-build.sh b/.semaphore/semaphore-build.sh
index 4561894bd..ac7d76776 100755
--- a/.semaphore/semaphore-build.sh
+++ b/.semaphore/semaphore-build.sh
@@ -19,10 +19,12 @@ PRECOMMITDIR=precommit/src/main/shell
 
 "${PRECOMMITDIR}/test-patch.sh" \
   --plugins=all \
+  --bugcomments=briefreport,csvout,htmlout,junit \
   --mvn-custom-repos \
   --mvn-custom-repos-dir=/tmp/yetus-m2 \
   --patch-dir=/tmp/yetus-out \
   --tests-filter=checkstyle,test4tests \
+  --csv-report-file=/tmp/yetus-out/report.csv \
   --junit-report-xml=/tmp/yetus-out/junit-results.xml \
   --junit-report-style=full \
   --docker \
diff --git a/Jenkinsfile b/Jenkinsfile
index 5d545f148..2bc9da6c1 100644
--- a/Jenkinsfile
+++ b/Jenkinsfile
@@ -86,11 +86,12 @@ pipeline {
                 YETUS_ARGS+=(--sentinel)
 
                 # lots of different output formats
+                YETUS_ARGS+=("--bugcomments=briefreport,console,csvout,htmlout,junit")
                 YETUS_ARGS+=("--brief-report-file=${WORKSPACE}/${YETUS_RELATIVE_PATCHDIR}/brief.txt")
                 YETUS_ARGS+=("--console-report-file=${WORKSPACE}/${YETUS_RELATIVE_PATCHDIR}/console.txt")
                 YETUS_ARGS+=("--html-report-file=${WORKSPACE}/${YETUS_RELATIVE_PATCHDIR}/report.html")
                 YETUS_ARGS+=("--junit-report-xml=${WORKSPACE}/${YETUS_RELATIVE_PATCHDIR}/junit-report.xml")
-
+                YETUS_ARGS+=("--csv-report-file=${WORKSPACE}/${YETUS_RELATIVE_PATCHDIR}/yetus-out/report.csv")
                 # enable writing back to Github
                 YETUS_ARGS+=(--github-token="${GITHUB_TOKEN}")
 
diff --git a/precommit/src/main/shell/core.d/00-yetuslib.sh b/precommit/src/main/shell/core.d/00-yetuslib.sh
index 9b2177a5d..0c9bbbbf1 100755
--- a/precommit/src/main/shell/core.d/00-yetuslib.sh
+++ b/precommit/src/main/shell/core.d/00-yetuslib.sh
@@ -609,3 +609,14 @@ function yetus_is_container
   YETUS_CONTAINER_STATE=false
   return 1
 }
+
+## @description  Given a string, trim extra surrounding whitespace
+## @audience     public
+## @stability    stable
+## @replaceable  no
+function yetus_trim {
+    declare var="$*"
+    var="${var#"${var%%[![:space:]]*}"}"
+    var="${var%"${var##*[![:space:]]}"}"
+    printf '%s' "$var"
+}
diff --git a/precommit/src/main/shell/plugins.d/csvout.sh b/precommit/src/main/shell/plugins.d/csvout.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..17d848dff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/precommit/src/main/shell/plugins.d/csvout.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+add_bugsystem csvout
+
+## @description  Usage info for csvout plugin
+## @audience     private
+## @stability    evolving
+## @replaceable  no
+function csvout_usage
+{
+  yetus_add_option "--csv-report-file=<file>" "Save the final report to an CSV-formated file"
+}
+
+## @description  Option parsing for csvout plugin
+## @audience     private
+## @stability    evolving
+## @replaceable  no
+function csvout_parse_args
+{
+  declare i
+  declare fn
+
+  for i in "$@"; do
+    case ${i} in
+      --csv-report-file=*)
+        delete_parameter "${i}"
+        fn=${i#*=}
+      ;;
+    esac
+  done
+
+  if [[ -n "${fn}" ]]; then
+    if : > "${fn}"; then
+      CSVOUT_REPORTFILE_ORIG="${fn}"
+      CSVOUT_REPORTFILE=$(yetus_abs "${CSVOUT_REPORTFILE_ORIG}")
+    else
+      yetus_error "WARNING: cannot create CSV report file ${fn}. Ignoring."
+    fi
+  fi
+}
+
+## @description  Give access to the CSV report file in docker mode
+## @audience     private
+## @stability    evolving
+## @replaceable  no
+function csvout_docker_support
+{
+  # if for some reason the report file is in PATCH_DIR, then if
+  # PATCH_DIR gets cleaned out we lose access to the file on the 'outside'
+  # so we put it into the workdir which never gets cleaned.
+
+  if [[ -n ${CSVOUT_REPORTFILE} ]]; then
+    DOCKER_EXTRAARGS+=("-v" "${CSVOUT_REPORTFILE}:${DOCKER_WORK_DIR}/report.csv")
+    USER_PARAMS+=("--csv-report-file=${DOCKER_WORK_DIR}/report.csv")
+  fi
+}
+
+## @description  Write out an CSV version of the final report to a file
+## @audience     private
+## @stability    evolving
+## @replaceable  no
+## @param        runresult
+function csvout_report_writer
+{
+  declare result=$1
+  shift
+  declare i=0
+  declare ourstring
+  declare vote
+  declare subs
+  declare ela
+  declare comment
+
+  if [[ -z "${CSVOUT_REPORTFILE}" ]]; then
+    return
+  fi
+
+  : >  "${CSVOUT_REPORTFILE}"
+  i=0
+  until [[ $i -ge ${#TP_VOTE_TABLE[@]} ]]; do
+    ourstring=$(echo "${TP_VOTE_TABLE[i]}" | tr -s ' ')
+    vote=$(echo "${ourstring}" | cut -f2 -d\|)
+    vote=$(yetus_trim "${vote}")
+    subs=$(echo "${ourstring}"  | cut -f3 -d\|)
+    subs=$(yetus_trim "${subs}")
+    ela=$(echo "${ourstring}" | cut -f4 -d\|)
+    ela=$(yetus_trim "${ela}")
+    comment=$(echo "${ourstring}"  | cut -f6 -d\|)
+    comment=$(yetus_trim "${comment}")
+
+    echo "${vote},${subs},${ela},${comment}" >> "${CSVOUT_REPORTFILE}"
+    ((i=i+1))
+  done
+}
+
+## @description  Write out the CSV version of the final report to a file
+## @audience     private
+## @stability    evolving
+## @replaceable  no
+## @param        runresult
+function csvout_finalreport
+{
+  declare result=$1
+
+  if [[ -z "${CSVOUT_REPORTFILE}" ]]; then
+    return
+  fi
+
+  big_console_header "Writing CSV to ${CSVOUT_REPORTFILE}"
+
+  csvout_report_writer "${result}" "${CSVOUT_REPORTFILE}"
+}
diff --git a/precommit/src/main/shell/plugins.d/htmlout.sh b/precommit/src/main/shell/plugins.d/htmlout.sh
index b14056ea0..c92854b89 100755
--- a/precommit/src/main/shell/plugins.d/htmlout.sh
+++ b/precommit/src/main/shell/plugins.d/htmlout.sh
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ function htmlout_finalreport
     return
   fi
 
-  big_console_header "Writing HTML to ${commentfile}"
+  big_console_header "Writing HTML to ${HTMLOUT_REPORTFILE}"
 
   htmlout_report_writer "${result}" "${HTMLOUT_REPORTFILE}"
 }
diff --git a/precommit/src/test/shell/yetus_trim.bats b/precommit/src/test/shell/yetus_trim.bats
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..32c3cdff2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/precommit/src/test/shell/yetus_trim.bats
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+load functions_test_helper
+
+@test "yetus_trim (no trim)" {
+  run yetus_trim fake
+  [ "${output}" = "fake" ]
+}
+
+@test "yetus_trim (left trim)" {
+  run yetus_trim " fake"
+  [ "${output}" = "fake" ]
+}
+
+@test "yetus_trim (right trim)" {
+  run yetus_trim "fake "
+  [ "${output}" = "fake" ]
+}
+
+@test "yetus_trim (dual trim)" {
+  run yetus_trim " fake "
+  [ "${output}" = "fake" ]
+}