gradle reboot

Hi,

This is to let you know that I am currently working on overhauling and 
upgrading the gradle package to the upcoming 8.11 release. This is 
indeed quite challenging and I am not yet to the point where I could 
share a repo and let others experiment and contribute, but I hope to get 
there in a few days or maybe next week, I will then post an update with 
a link.

My current plan is to make it at least a 2-stage build as there is no 
point in trying to make its complicated buildscript work with the 
currently packaged version 4.4.1. I don't know yet if the versions of 
Groovy and Kotlin currently in Debian will work with these builds but I 
will try. I am also factoring in the gradle-debian-helper in the build 
of Gradle itself to use its logic to resolve artifact versions, even 
though the plugin can no longer be used as is because it depends on a 
core 'maven' plugin that disappeared with Gradle 7.

About myself, I haven't contributed much to the project yet but I am a 
long time FLOSS advocate and Debian user, with some background in large 
scale deployments, SRE and DevOps things. I didn't have much prior 
experience with Gradle until the past few days, so I am learning while 
doing it.

Regards,