I dropped the ball in following up with the gradle contact that Nick
met at ApacheCon. Konstantin, if you'd like to coordinate a meeting
with him (and any other devs!), please let me know. I just sent a
follow up message to him for potentially trying to set something up
next week.
Best,
Tim
On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 4:08 PM Konstantin Gribov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Any follow up on using build cache and/or experiment with migration to
> gradle? I have a little bit of expertise with gradle and wanted to join in
> with the experiment.
> Compilation avoidance, dependency resolution engine and ease of writing
> ad-hoc plugins are very strong points with gradle. I migrated a bunch of
> projects at work to gradle and improved things quite a lot.
>
> Configuration phase could be quite long, I'm impatiently waiting when
> configuration cache lands. It also avoids dependency resolution step on
> each gradle run.
>
> Nicholas, could you elaborate on what you mean with "New versions of gradle
> result in full redownload all the deps"? Never seen such behavior and it
> sounds like a bug or some elaborate repositories' misconfiguration. I only
> got extremely slow resolution with the spring dependency plugin and
> misconfigured reverse proxy before Nexus.
>
> As for build cache it brings some good on the ci but not much on local
> development in cases where we tried to use it. IIRC Build Cache server
> itself is free if we want to use it and burden Infra with running it. But
> likely it doesn't support clustering/HA which could be an issue for the ASF
> scale.
>
> We certainly could use build scans for free publishing them from CI builds,
> it would help with analyzing dependency graph and build performance.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Konstantin Gribov
>
> пт, 14 окт. 2022 г., 17:13 Nicholas DiPiazza <[email protected]>:
>
> > Is there a branch started on the Gradle thing? I have some cycles and can
> > use them to upgrade to Gradle on Tika, if desired.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 8:50 AM Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2022, Tim Allison wrote:
> > > > Happy to chat. Please put them in touch.
> > >
> > > Excellent, thanks Tim!
> > >
> > > Other than your past talks, have we got any info (eg on the wiki?) about
> > > how to run the regression corpus?
> > >
> > > > I've been really impressed with what the POI team has done migrating
> > > > from ant to gradle. On Tika, I don't think we have any special needs
> > > > that would require deep gradle knowledge, but given the number of
> > > > modules now, it will be non-trivial. Also, I take Nick D's concerns
> > > > seriously.
> > >
> > > We don't have to swap from Maven - they have a plugin that integrates it
> > >
> > > Nick
> > >
> >
