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Gradle Wrapper Bot should facilitate forward port issues

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Description

When the Gradle Wrapper Bot creates a PR to update Gradle, it does it for only one branch. When forward porting to other branches, no forward port issues attached to the other affected versions are created. Thus, those forward port issues must be created manually.

There are at least two alternatives to creating the forward port issues manually:

  1. Configure the bot to create an upgrade PR for each branch. The downside here is that there is that it quadratically increases the amount of forward porting to be done
  2. Configure the bot to include the PR number in the commit, like Closes PR-13456. In that case, the forward port bot will create the appropriate issues automatically while forward porting.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by tracing how the Gradle Wrapper Bot creates upgrade pull requests and how the forward port bot recognizes commit references across branches. Compare the two proposed approaches and confirm that the chosen implementation creates the appropriate forward port issues automatically without requiring manual creation.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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