The Gradle team uses ADRs to record architectural decisions that the team has made.

See [Architecture decisions records](standards) for the list of ADRs.
Be aware these are very technical descriptions of the decisions, and you might find the documentation below more useful as an introduction to the internals of Gradle.

## Platform architecture

Gradle is arranged into several coarse-grained components called "platforms".

You also need to run `mvn clean verify` with Java 8 before committing changes.

If you have ktlint errors, you can automatically fix them by running `mvn com.github.gantsign.maven:ktlint-maven-plugin:1.1.1:format`.

## How the configuration works

We use Kotlin portable DSL to store TeamCity configuration, which means you can easily create a new pipeline

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## Contributing

If you're looking to contribute to Gradle or provide a patch/pull request, you can find more info [here](https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).