A bit more debugging of the build file suggested that the
~/.gradle/gradle.properties file wasn't being used at all. Turns out my
setup had the GRADLE_USER_HOME pointing to some other directory (I don't
remember why I had set it up that way) and it was looking for the
gradle.properties in that
I am trying to build Kafka 0.10 branch from source to get a SSL fix and
use it for our internal tests. In order to use it internally in our
application, we'll need these built artifacts to be published to our
internal Maven repo (backed by Nexus). I build instructions in README.md
says this: