[xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming] Gradle exploration?

BTW I think we’ll need to think about exploring gradle in not too long. Maven continues to stagnate while gradle is moving fast ahead. One important feature of gradle is performance (see also https://blog.gradle.org/introducing-gradle-build-cache and https://blog.gradle.org/incremental-compiler-avoidance). Apparently it beats maven easily and that coud make things much nicer for us. The worrying point for me is the ability to find existing gradle plugins to replace the maven ones that we use. What we could do is to commit the start of a gradle build in our SCM (starting with xwiki-commons) as a way to explore Gradle and see what’s missing compared to our current maven build. In other words, it would be a way to slowly start to learn Gradle. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent PS1: FTR I did my first gradle build at https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/docker-xwiki/blob/master/build.gradle PS2: I’m worried about the smaller reliance on conventions in gradle than in Maven (as you can see from https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/docker-xwiki/blob/master/build.gradle, it doesn’t use any fixed structure and we’ll need plenty of best practices, it really reminds me of Ant…).