As a gradle beginner, I could not agree more ! 
+1
Etienne
Le lundi 09 avril 2018 à 18:47 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Onofré a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I did multiple gradle build since last week and I would like to share 
> one of my concern: it's about the communities.
> 
> If I think our users won't see any change for them due to Gradle build 
> (I think that most of our users will still use Maven with artifacts 
> provided by Gradle), I'm more concerned by the dev community and the 
> contribution.
> 
> Maven is well known and straight forward for a large part of potential 
> contributors. I think we have to keep in mind that we still have to grow 
> up our contributors community.
> 
> Today, maybe I'm wrong, but I have the feeling that gradle build is not 
> straight forward (build.gradle includes build_rules.gradle, gathering 
> all taks all together).
> 
> I would like to add a task in the gradle "migration" process: simplify 
> the gradle structure and files, and document this.
> 
> I know we already have a Jira about the documentation part, but I would 
> like to "polish" and use a clean structure for the Gradle resources. As 
> already quickly discussed, I think that having one gradle file per tasks 
> in the .gradle directory would be helpful.
> 
> The goal is really to simplify the contribution.
> 
> Do you agree if I add a Jira about "Gradle polish" ?
> Thoughts ?
> 
> Regards
> JB
> 
> On 07/04/2018 04:52, Scott Wegner wrote:
> > 
> > Here's an end-of-day update on migration work:
> > 
> > * Snapshot unsigned dailies and signed release builds are working (!!). 
> > PR/5048 [1] merges changes from Luke's branch
> >    * python precommit failing... will investigate python precommit Monday
> > * All Precommits are gradle only
> > * All Postcommits except performance tests and Java_JDK_Versions_Test  
> > use gradle (after PR/5047 [2] merged)
> > * Nightly snapshot release using gradle is ready; needs PR/5048 to be 
> > merged before switching
> > * ValidatesRunner_Spark failing consistently; investigating
> > 
> > Thanks for another productive day of hacking. I'll pick up again on Monday.
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/5048
> > [2] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/5047
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 11:24 AM Romain Manni-Bucau 
> > <rmannibu...@gmail.com rmannibu...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Why building a zip per runner which its stack and just pointing out
> >     on that zip and let beam lazy load the runner:
> > 
> >     --runner=LazyRunner --lazyRunnerDir=... --lazyRunnerOptions=... (or
> >     the fromSystemProperties() if it gets merged a day ;))
> > 
> >     Le 6 avr. 2018 20:21, "Kenneth Knowles" <k...@google.com
> >     k...@google.com>> a écrit :
> > 
> >         I'm working on finding a solution for launching the Nexmark
> >         suite with each runner. This doesn't have to be done via Gradle,
> >         but we anyhow need built artifacts that don't require user
> >         classpath intervention.
> > 
> >         It looks to me like the examples are also missing this - they
> >         have separate configuration e.g. sparkRunnerPreCommit but that
> >         is overspecified compared to a free-form launching of a main()
> >         program with a runner profile.
> > 
> >         On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 11:09 AM Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com
> >         lc...@google.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >             Romain, are you talking about the profiles that exist as
> >             part of the archetype examples?
> > 
> >             If so, then those still exist and haven't been changed. If
> >             not, can you provide a link to the profile in a pom file to
> >             be clearer?
> > 
> >             On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 12:40 PM Romain Manni-Bucau
> >             <rmannibu...@gmail.com rmannibu...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >                 Hi Scott,
> > 
> >                 is it right that 2 doesn't handle the hierachy anymore
> >                 and that it doesn't handle profiles for runners as it is
> >                 currently with maven?
> > 
> > 
> >                 Romain Manni-Bucau
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> >                 
> > <https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/java-ee-8-high-performance>
> > 
> >                 2018-04-06 18:32 GMT+02:00 Scott Wegner
> >                 <sweg...@google.com sweg...@google.com>>:
> > 
> >                     I wanted to start a thread to summarize the current
> >                     state of Gradle migration. We've made lots of good
> >                     progress so far this week. Here's the status from
> >                     what I can tell-- please add or correct anything I
> >                     missed:
> > 
> >                     * Release artifacts can be built and published for
> >                     Snapshot and officlal releases [1]
> >                     * Gradle-generated releases have been validated with
> >                     the the Apache Beam archetype generation quickstart;
> >                     still needs additional validation.
> >                     * Generated release pom files have correct project
> >                     metadata [2]
> >                     * The python pre-commits are now working in Gradle [3]
> >                     * Ismaël has started a collaborative doc of Gradle
> >                     tips [4] as we all learn the new system-- please add
> >                     your own. This will eventually feed into official
> >                     documentation on the website.
> >                     * Łukasz Gajowy is working on migrating performance
> >                     testing framework [5]
> >                     * Daniel is working on updating documentation to
> >                     refer to Gradle instead of maven
> > 
> >                     If I missed anything, please add it to this thread.
> > 
> >                     The general roadmap we're working towards is:
> >                     (a) Publish release artifacts with Gradle (SNAPSHOT
> >                     and signed releases)
> >                     (b) Postcommits migrated to Gradle
> >                     (c) Migrate documentation from maven to Gradle
> >                     (d) Migrate perfkit suites to use Gradle
> > 
> >                     For those of you that are hacking: thanks for your
> >                     help so far! Progress is being roughly tracked on
> >                     the Kanban [6]; please make sure the issues assigned
> >                     to you are up-to-date. Many of the changes are
> >                     staged on lukecwik's local branch [7]; we'll work on
> >                     merging them back soon.
> > 
> > 
> >                     [1] https://github.com/lukecwik/incubator-beam/pull/7
> >                     [2] https://github.com/lukecwik/incubator-beam/pull/3
> >                     [3] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/5032
> >                     [4]
> >                     
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wR56Jef3XIPwj4DFzQKznuGPM3JDfRDVkxzeDlbdVSQ/edit
> >                     [5] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/5003
> >                     [6]
> >                     
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=242
> > 
> >                     [7]
> >                     https://github.com/lukecwik/incubator-beam/tree/gradle
> >                     -- 
> > 
> > 
> >                     Got feedback? http://go/swegner-feedback
> > 
> > 

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