Hi, One more update: the build is almost complete. It builds artifacts, it runs various verifications, it pushes artifacts to SVN/Nexus/Sonar. It prepares site/documentation, pushes it to preview repository along with RAT report, and puts relevant links to "vote" mail template.
The missing bits are: "batch tests", "third-party license checks in LICENSE and licenses/ folder", and some cleanups (e.g. removal of pom templates) As those are implemented, Gradle script would become a superset of current build.xml. Any thoughts so far? I'm afraid I did not receive much feedback yet, so it is time to try Gradle-based build. My plan is to issue a lazy consensus vote (see https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html ) as the build script is ready, so if you think you might disagree with the change, please take your time to provide some feedback. Otherwise the absence of vetos would imply the agreement to merge the change. Vladimir
