Refactor gradle build files #3025

[fritschldwg]

Refactor gradle build files #3025

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Closes: #3025

Description

Completed

• ✅ Upgrade ktlint to v12.1.0
• ✅ Upgrade gradle to v8.7
• ✅ Upgrade kotlin-logging to v6.0.9
• ✅ Refactor logging to use a singleton logger
• ✅ Migrate gradle scripts to kotlin
• ✅ Remove unused gradle tasks
• ✅ Remove (some) unused dependencies

Open

• ⚪ Thoroughly analyze which dependencies can be removed
• ⚪ Unify dependencies (in root module) that are used across many submodules
• ⚪ Update build scripts to remove deprecation warnings related to gradle v9
• ⚪ Refactor build scripts to reduce build time, make them more idiomatic and reduce coupling
  • https://proandroiddev.com/how-we-reduced-our-gradle-build-times-by-over-80-51f2b6d6b05b
  • https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/multi_project_configuration_and_execution.html
• ⚪ Make use of gradle build cache and gradle configuration cache on github runners
  • https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/github-actions.html
  • https://github.com/gradle/gradle-build-action
• ⚪ Fix gradle sonar task warnings and erros
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  • java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: null
• ⚪ Implement tests for build logic and gradle tasks
  • https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/test_kit.html

Definition of Done

A PR is only ready for merge once all the following acceptance criteria are fulfilled:

• Changes have been manually tested
• All TODOs related to this PR have been closed
• There are automated tests for newly written code and bug fixes
• All bugs discovered while working on this PR have been submitted as issues (if not already an open issue)
• Documentation (GH-pages, analysis/visualization READMEs, parser READMEs, --help, etc.) has been updated (almost always necessary except for bug fixes)
• CHANGELOG.md has been updated

[phanlezz]

LGTM! 🚀

[sonarcloud]

Quality Gate passed for 'CodeCharta Visualization'

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
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[sonarcloud]

Quality Gate passed for 'CodeCharta Analysis'

Issues
20 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
84.3% Coverage on New Code
2.1% Duplication on New Code

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