thoroughly before moving to code.

Some examples of types of pull requests that are immediately helpful:

  - Fixing a bug without changing a public API.
  - Fixing or improving documentation.
  - Improvements to Maven configuration.

Guidelines for any code contributions:

  1. Any significant changes should be accompanied by tests. The project already
     has good test coverage, so look at some existing tests if you're unsure

### Configuration cache enabled by default

The build of Gradle enables the configuration cache by default as a dogfooding experiment.

Most tasks that are used to build Gradle support the configuration cache, but some don't. For example, building the documentation currently requires you to disable the configuration cache.

To disable the configuration cache, run the build with `--no-configuration-cache`.