# Contributing to the Gradle Build Tool

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Gradle!
This guide explains how to contribute to the core Gradle components, 
extensions and documentation located in this repository.
For other extensions and components, see the 
[Gradle Community Resources](https://gradle.org/resources/).

This guide will help you to...

* maximize the chance of your changes being accepted
* work on the Gradle code base

 *
 * @param historyDays days number of days to store build history .
 * @param artifactsDays number of days to store artifacts. In the stored history, artifacts older than this number will be cleaned up.
 * @param artifactPatterns patterns for artifacts clean-up. If not specified, all artifacts will be removed.
 */

            against THE LATEST VERSION WHICH IS RELEASED FROM RELEASE BRANCH (from `released-version.json` on this branch)
            AND LOWER THAN CURRENT BASE VERSION (from `version.txt` on this branch).
            The difference must identically match <a href="${apiChangesJsonFile.asFile.path}">accepted-public-api-changes.json</a>, no more, no less - otherwise the task will fail.