Roadmap towards Gradle 1.0 and beyond

0.5 Release (Target date: October 14, 2008)

• Support to deploy pom's to Maven repositories (including Snapshots)
• Two-phase logging (see http://www.nabble.com/2-phase-logging-to16945248.html)
• Integration of all different kind of reports (e.g. JDepend, Checkstyle, ...) into the Java plugin (including uploading the reports).
• Integration of Jetty for easy local testing of web applications.

0.6 Release

• TestNG support
• t.b.a ...

1.0 (spreaded over a couple of minor releases)

• Support for ear archives.
• IntelliJ and Netbeans IDE files generation.
• Rich plugin system
  • classloader isolation
  • dependency declarations
  • multi-project build integration
  • running plugins from the command line against a project
  • many other features.
• Add Visitor or Listener interfaces to the core domain model where it makes sense
• Uploading functionality for Gradle's client modules.
• Multi-threaded builds.
• Providing an embedded way to use Gradle.
• Allow the execution of tasks to depend on the success/failure of other tasks.

Post-1.0

• Release management
• Integration of existing ivy.xml and pom.xml files. Either by generating a Gradle build script out of them or by parsing them on the fly during a Gradle build.
• Supporting multiple languages for build scripts (e.g. JRuby, Jython)
• Distributed builds
• Source file dependency analysis for incremental builds
• Scala Plugin

Independent

• IDE plugins for IntelliJ, Eclipse and NetBeans