[logback-dev] Running the logback project as a commitocracy

[Joern Huxhorn]

> Gradle's better/more flexible design is rather appealing. One of the fetaures I like about the current maven-based build is that IDEA can import it without any problems. Can Gradle projects be imported into IDEA as easily?
> 

Well, there are Gradle plugins to generate Eclipse and IDEA project files.
IDEA 10 has basic support for Gradle, too, but I can't check it myself since my company hasn't bought the upgrade yet.

The feature request for full-fledged support is here: http://teamsys.intellij.net/issue/IDEA-53476

As I said, I use both Maven and Gradle side-by-side at the moment so this isn't a big issue for me. The Maven build isn't able to produce the same result as the Gradle one since I add the Git HEAD hash to the properties of my application (which I simply wasn't able to do in Maven) but it is still able to create working results and I can still use the pom.xml for IDEA.

The main reason I keep the poms around, though, is really Sonar. It's still lacking Gradle support so I have to keep it that way for a while longer...

Cheers,
Joern.