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gradle plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter

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Project
craft-parts
Number
#1239
Type
issue
State
open
Author
lengau
Labels
Type: Enhancement Status: Needs information
Created
Updated
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Current evaluation

Feature request: add `disable-parallel` support to the gradle plugin. Maintainer labels it low-priority, 'Needs information', asking for a real-world use case that fails under parallel builds; design (None/False/True) sketched in a comment.

Suggested action: needs triage

Reason: The issue is a valid, still-unimplemented enhancement: the gradle plugin (craft_parts/plugins/gradle_plugin.py) has no `disable_parallel` field and only autotools_plugin.py implements it today, so nothing has resolved it. The maintainer explicitly said it is 'extremely low priority until someone shows us a real-world use case' and the only comment leaves design undecided ('probably needs to have more than just bool values' with None/False/True semantics), and it carries a 'Needs information' label with no assignee, so it has not been triaged. It should stay open pending a reproducer, but the missing use case and unspecified API keep it from being immediately implementable.

Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot

Impact: 25 Quick Win: 7 Complexity: 30 Confidence: 82 Actionability: 40

Issue body

### What needs to get done Support the [disable-parallel](https://canonical-craft-parts.readthedocs-hosted.com/latest/common/craft-parts/reference/part_properties/#disable-parallel) part property in the gradle plugin. ### Why it needs to get done All of our plugins should theoretically support this. In practice though, this is extremely low priority until someone shows us a real-world use case for it. If someone can bring us a real-world use case that we can test against (especially a case of "this application simply does not build with parallel"), that would be ideal. The [autotools plugin](https://github.com/canonical/craft-parts/pull/1167) required this for OpenJDK builds, for example.

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
stealth/space-bunny-alpha
Impact: 25
Quick Win: 7
Complexity: 30
Confidence: 82
Actionability: 40
needs triage Feature request: add `disable-parallel` support to the gradle plugin. Maintainer labels it low-priority, 'Needs information', asking for a real-world use case that fails under parallel builds; design (None/False/True) sketched in a comment.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Impact: 30
Quick Win: 4
Complexity: 40
Confidence: 65
Actionability: 20
close stale Enhancement request to add disable-parallel support to the gradle plugin; labeled Needs information and waiting for a real-world use case since 384 days ago.
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Impact: 15
Quick Win: 10
Staleness: 65
Complexity: 35
Confidence: 75
Support Request: 10
keep open Gradle plugin lacks disable-parallel part property support. Labeled Needs information; maintainer proposed a 3-state (None/False/True) design but is waiting for a real-world use case. No implementation in code after 363 days.
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Impact: 20
Quick Win: 11
Staleness: 65
Complexity: 45
Confidence: 70
Support Request: 5
close stale Enhancement request to add the disable-parallel part property to the gradle plugin. Triaged with a Needs information label; the maintainer asked for a real-world use case 363 days ago and none has been provided. Feature still unimplemented in the plugin.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Staleness: 68
Complexity: 25
Confidence: 85
Support Request: 10
keep open Feature request to add disable-parallel parameter support to the Gradle plugin. Currently awaiting implementation and real-world test cases from the community.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6
Staleness: 80
Complexity: 20
Confidence: 80
Support Request: 0
close stale Enhancement request to add disable-parallel parameter support to the gradle plugin. Labeled needs information, inactive for 309 days, and marked low priority pending a real-world use case.

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Related work

  • Related To: craft-parts#1234 (confidence 88%)

    cmake plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter; same low-priority, Needs-information sibling issue in the same batch.

  • Related To: craft-parts#1243 (confidence 88%)

    maven plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter; same low-priority, Needs-information sibling issue.

  • Related To: canonical/craft-parts#1167 (confidence 75%)

    The autotools PR cited in the issue body as the original motivation; the only existing implementation of disable-parallel in the codebase.

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