Plan for releasing Gradle 2.3

[Daz DeBoer]

Hi all

We're currently finalizing the plan for the Gradle 2.3 release. While we had originally hoped to get an RC out next week (Dec 15) there are still too many things that need to be tied off, so the plan is now:

1. Dec 15-17: Initialise the release branch for Gradle 2.3
2. Jan 5-6: Release Gradle 2.3-rc-1
3. Jan 19: Release Gradle 2.3 final

Until we've done 1), we won't be merging any non-trivial pull requests.

Regarding releasing new features, the following new functionality is not ready to 'release' in 2.3, and will be a) not announced and b) feature toggled off where appropriate.

1. Play Framework support
2. Parallel task execution
3. Daemon classloader caching
4. Daemon hygiene improvements
5. Restrictions to allowable task names for new model: validation will be disabled and re-introduced in 2.4 in a backward-compatible way

There are some other (hopefully minor) things that we plan to complete/review for Gradle 2.3:

1. Fix bug in EclipseWtpFacet that prompted https://code-review.gradle.org/cru/REVIEW-5305, so that we don't need to add a new 'defaultFacets' workaround.
2. Possibly some improvements to the way we translate Gradle version strings to Maven POM: https://code-review.gradle.org/cru/REVIEW-5225
3. Possibly some improvements to the way the maven-publish plugin handles the 'packaging' attribute: https://code-review.gradle.org/cru/REVIEW-5267
4. Possibly more changes resulting from review of merged pull requests

Please let me know if there's anything you see that's missing from this list.

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Darrell (Daz) DeBoer

http://www.gradleware.com

[Adam Murdoch]

There are some tooling API changes that need finishing too.

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Adam Murdoch
Gradle Co-founder
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CTO Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting
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