Referencing a project instance during task execution is discouraged by
Gradle and should be avoided. E.g. It is incompatible with Gradles
incubating configuration cache. Instead there are services available to handle
archive and filesystem operations in task actions.
Brings us one step closer to #57918
* Merge test runner task into RestIntegTest (#60261)
* Merge test runner task into RestIntegTest
* Reorganizing Standalone runner and RestIntegTest task
* Rework general test task configuration and extension
* Fix merge issues
* use former 7.x common test configuration
- Replace immediate task creations by using task avoidance api
- One step closer to #56610
- Still many tasks are created during configuration phase. Tackled in separate steps
* Remove usage of deprecated testCompile configuration
* Replace testCompile usage by testImplementation
* Make testImplementation non transitive by default (as we did for testCompile)
* Update CONTRIBUTING about using testImplementation for test dependencies
* Fail on testCompile configuration usage
* Fix Snapshot Repository Corruption in Downgrade Scenarios (#50692)
This PR introduces test infrastructure for downgrading a cluster while interacting with a given repository.
It fixes the fact that repository metadata in the new format could be written while there's still older snapshots in the repository that require the old-format metadata to be restorable.