Hi all, Last week we discussed having a "fixit" day for Gradle, and I volunteered to organize it. A number of people volunteered to help, from multiple organization. I'd like to say that it's great to see such a diverse set of people volunteering to help here - this is a great way to build community! Everyone who explicitly volunteered is directly cced on this email, though we'd love for more of the community to help.
The agreed upon date is April 3. The top-level JIRA tracking this work is ttps://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3249 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3249>, and we currently have 26 subtasks linked to it. I've created a Kanban board to track these issues, which I'll share out soon. We will use Slack the day of the fixit for collaboration and for questions. Two major goals for this fixit should be to 1. Remove Maven runs from our Jenkins executors and 2. to migrate our release process fully over to Gradle. A lot of work has already been done on 1., and we've made some progress on 2.. Slightly longer-term the goal is to delete all of the pom files; I'm not sure we'll get as far as completely deleting Maven in one day, but we should get within striking distance! Thanks in advance to everyone who's helping out! Reuven
