Upgrade Gradle version, or find other solution for `tumblr-metal` failing to download Gradle

[mokagio]

As part of building the app in CI, we run ./gradlew.

Since moving to tumblr-metal as part of the ReleaseV2 and release-in-CI migration, see paaHJt-6ps-p2, running ./gradlew fails with

Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.2-bin.zip

Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Downloading from https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.2-bin.zip failed: timeout

Example:

We discussed, p1726719736370609-slack-C020Q0Z579V, a few options to solve this issue. The most promising being:

• Upgrading Gradle in Simplenote Android to a version that tumblr-metal supports. This seems like the best option as presumably tumblr-metal support recent versions which would be beneficial to adopt regardless of CI limitations.
• Pass a proxy config to Gradle

In the meantime, #1705 has a workaround.

[dangermattic]

Thanks for reporting! 👍