IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin – Reporting and Parallel Verifications

In 2025, Victoria Chuks Alajemba worked on improving the IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin.

Note

This is NOT the official project page, see the project page on the GSoC site. We keep this page for referencing purposes.

Project abstract

The IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin, the official Gradle plugin for building, testing, verifying, configuring environments, and publishing plugins for IntelliJ IDEs, includes a VerifyPluginTask that verifies a plugin against one or multiple IDEs. Currently, reporting is managed by the Verifier CLI, which employs its custom reporting system to generate verification reports; however, the VerifyPluginTask could benefit from Gradle's Reporting API for more configurable reports. Additionally, integrating Gradle's Worker API for parallel execution of the verifyPlugin task could enhance the IDE plugin development experience.

The goal of this project is to assess the benefits and ultimately implement the necessary changes to the verifyPlugin task. Lastly, explore further optimizations to enhance the plugin development workflow.

Team

• Contributor: Victoria Chuks Alajemba
• Mentors: Jakub Chrzanowski

References

• Project Page on the GSoC site by Victoria Chuks Alajemba
• Mid-Term Project Demo
• Gradle Cookbook - Reporting API - a new cookbook page created by Victoria
• Final Project Report

Discussion Channels

• #gsoc-ij-gradle-plugin channel on the Kotlin Foundation Slack