Gradle migration continues. Our last update was on April 13th, and since then there has been significant progress:
Release artifacts: * Upgrade to latest Gradle PR5104 * Remove evaluationDependsOn and use shaded test jars PR5117 * Nightly java snapshot release fixed by PR5136 and PR 5142 and now passing PreCommits / Postcommits: * Add better Gradle documentation for quickstarts PR5115 * Python Precommit failures due to environment inconsistencies being temporarily repaired (PR 5149) * Porting of Python postcommit to a Gradle task instead of a shell script (PR 5155, PR 5146) * Increase parallelism to deflake Dataflow postcommits PR5143 * Fix Spark quickstarts PR5151 * Restrict Jenkins host machines due to environmental issues PR5149 Documentation / IDE Setup: * Update Eclipse documentation for Gradle PR419 Performance Benchmarks: * Add Gradle run task to Nexmark PR5051 * Update performance testing framework to use Gradle PR5003 * Rebuild before running Performance tests PR5153 We continue to track migration blockers as sub-tasks in BEAM-3249, which is now available as a Kanban board: https://s.apache.org/beam-gradle-migration. To summarize the work left for migration: * Validate metadata in release pom file and jars. * Update release guide documentation * Fix Jenkins flakiness caused by Gradle * Convert benchmark jobs to use Gradle -- Got feedback? http://go/swegner-feedback
