[forge-dev] Student introduction - Support for the Gradle build system

Hi! This year I have been chosen as a GSoC participator and I'd like to say that I'm very happy to join Forge team this summer (and I hope for longer! :)). My project is called "Support for the Gradle build system as a plugin for Forge" but it actually should be named an addon instead of plugin as I'm targeting Forge 2 API. I have already posted it some time ago, but for those who are interested and have not seen it, there is a link to my proposal: https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/a... There is a rough plan of what I want to do: - find and wrap the best possible Groovy parser implementation to create a JavaParser-like util - study Forge Maven addon implementation, to name things which must be obtained from the Gradle build script that are necessary to work effectively with the Gradle projects (like dependencies, source code location, etc.) - get familiar with Gradle tooling API and use it along with GroovyParser to implement Forge Gradle project addon The most complex task for this project is probably the GroovyParser. If it will seem to take longer than expected (with the risk that I won't be able to complete project in time), there is an alternative solution. I could use the simplest approach, i.e. use a tool which will traverse through Groovy script abstract syntax tree and find a place to put a piece of code. I have already implemented this (link in my proposal), and it seems to be sufficient enough to use it in parts of GradleProject which require Gradle script modification (like adding a dependency). During the summer, I plan to work during the working days from about 12PM to 8PM at GMT+1. Lincoln already created a repository for me on GitHub, so you can track my progress at: https://github.com/forge/addon-gradle I hope I gave enough information about my work, and I also hope that I won't disappoint you during this summer :). ~ Adam