# CI Pipeline Configuration

## Open & import the project

In your IDEA, `File` - `Open`, select `.teamcity/pom.xml`, `import as project`, and you'll have a Maven project.

## Project structure

Mostly a standard Maven project structure. The entry point `settings.kts` defines the TeamCity project.

There are 3 subprojects in the TeamCity project hierarchy: `Check` for Gradle builds, `Promotion` for releasing Gradle versions, `Util` for miscellaneous utilities.

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## Context

Gradle's public API requires equal access from all JVM-based languages.
Kotlin, Groovy, Java, and other JVM-based languages should be able to use the Gradle API without relying on another language's standard library.

Historically, Gradle has shipped with some Groovy types in very prominent APIs.
This required the Kotlin DSL to add special integration to work with Groovy closures.

## Architecture decision records (ADRs)

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

* Y
* Z
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## Status

ACCEPTED

## Consequences

* We start to use Architectural Decision Records
* We use the proposed template from this ADR
* We locate `.md` files in the folder `/architecture-standards`
* We highly encourage usage of ADR to communicate decisions

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# Gradle platform architecture

Gradle is arranged into coarse-grained components called "architecture modules" and "platforms".
See [ADR4](standards/0004-use-a-platform-architecture.md) for a definition of these terms.

The diagram below shows the current set of architecture modules and platforms:

## Architecture Standards

**Experimental!**

We'd like to capture our architectural decisions about the build tool as [Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)](https://adr.github.io/).
For now we just have this global repository of ADRs.
If we see fit, we can break these out to per-platform ones, or keep a hybrid approach to having global and platform-specific ADSs.

Our aim is to keep the process lightweight and approachable.