Hello Everyone, I just received some good news from Mathieu Lirzin (Thank you Mathieu) on the state of Gradle. Essentially, we were worried about gradle deprecating spaces used in task names which led to problems in issuing our standard server commands [1]. Thankfully, it seems this issue is resolved, the gradle folks seem to have changed their minds and we can continue as usual.
Therefore, I recommend we upgrade gradle to version 5. It is a lot faster for loading (it runs parallel processes for downloading dependencies) and it is also more compatible with newer versions of Java. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9972
