Improving liferay-portal repo build experience

• Type: Epic
• Status: In Development
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Dev Tools > Portal Build Env
• Labels: None
• Epic Status: To Do

Liferay's repo is extremely complicated and slow. This epic will focus on improving the developer experience when trying to build liferay-portal.

We will attempt to make the following improvements

• Upgrade portal to the latest Gradle version
• Improve build times
• Lower the complexity of the build