I created a wiki page [1] to help us work through / collaborate on this. IMO there are too many questions, etc to effectively deal with it just on the dev@ list
Chris, maybe you could fill in some of the (red) blanks on that page while continue my maven education. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDGENT/Maven+vs+Gradle <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDGENT/Maven+vs+Gradle> — Dale
