Github user Alex-Vol commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/1468
Yes, as it stands right now we will need to change the "making a release"
page to eliminate the manual editing of the gradle.properties file since it is
now automated to just require the configure.ac version edit only.
Should I go ahead and add the same integration to the other projects that
are now using the Java project gradle.properties file as the origin of their
version number? These are I believe the as3, and js projects, perhaps one more.
Then we can have less manual steps for a new release.
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