[Configuration Cache] Disable Configuration Cache on CI (V2)

[ParaskP7]

Related (Gradle 8.8 & AGP 8.5.1): #21659

Description:

This change is primarily about disabling configuration cache (CC) on CI. But, before doing so, we should verify that disabling CC on CI is actually going improve build times, and if not.

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To Test:

Testing on Gradle 8.12.1 and AGP 8.8.1 environment:

Job	BT (With)	BT (Without)	BT (Diff)	DR - Conf (With)	DR - Exec (Without)	DR (Diff)	TE - Time [Factor] (With)	TE - Time [Factor] (Without)	TE (Diff)
Jetpack App	13m 31s	15m 21s	+1m 50s (❌)	2s	3s	+1s (❌)	10m 17s [2.04x]	11m 41s [1.75s]	+1m 24s (❌)
WordPress App	15m 21s	17m 35s	+2m 14s (❌)	2s	3s	+1s (❌)	11m 34s [2.02x]	12m 55s [1.76x]	+1m 21s (❌)
Jetpack Lint	5m 36s	5m 54s	+18s (❌)	2s	4s	+2s (❌)	2m 9s [6.48x]	2m 14s [5.4x]	+5s (❌)
WordPress Lint	5m 49s	5m 8s	-41s (✅)	3s	2s	-1s (✅)	2m 8s [5.94x]	2m 1s [5.48x]	-7s (✅)
WordPress Unit Tests	5m 43s	4m 57s	-46s (✅)	2s	3s	+1s (❌)	2m 9s [5.13x]	2m 4s [4.19x]	-5s (✅)
Processors Unit Tests	2m 56s	3m 8s	+12s (❌)	0s	0s	0s (☑️)	7s [1.54x]	9s [1.46x]	+2s (❌)
Image Editor Unit Tests	3m 2s	3m 41s	+39s (❌)	0s	1s	TODO ()	12s [5.18x]	16s [4.13x]	+4s (❌)
FluxC Unit Tests	3m 32s	4m 24s	+52s (❌)	0s	1s	+1s (❌)	33s [2.71s]	41s [2.08x]	+8s (❌)
Login Unit Tests	3m 45s	3m 52s	+7s (❌)	1s	1s	0s (☑️)	33s [3.1x]	35s [2.72x]	+2s (❌)

Note

• Without: Without Configuration Cache
• With: With Configuration Cache
• BT: Build Time
• DR: Dependency Resolution -
  • Conf: During configuration
  • Exec: During execution
• TE: Task Execution
  • Time [Factor]: Time spent executing tasks [Serial execution factor]

Assemble (Jetpack)	BT (With CC )	BT (Without CC)	BT (Diff)
Without BC (Without DC)	18m 29s	16m 18s	-2m 11s (✅)
Without BC (With DC)	14m 6s	16m 24s	+2m 18s (❌)
With BC (Without DC)	15m 55s	15m 19s	-36s (✅)
With BC (With DC)1	5m 14s	5m 43s	+29s (❌)

Note

• CC: Configuration Cache
• BC: Build Cache
• DC: Dependency Cache

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Regression Notes

1. Potential unintended areas of impact

   • N/A

2. What I did to test those areas of impact (or what existing automated tests I relied on)

   • See To Test section above.

3. What automated tests I added (or what prevented me from doing so)

   • N/A

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PR Submission Checklist:

• I have completed the Regression Notes.
• I have considered adding accessibility improvements for my changes.
• I have considered if this change warrants user-facing release notes and have added them to RELEASE-NOTES.txt if necessary.

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Testing Checklist (strike-out the not-applying and unnecessary ones): N/A

Footnotes

1. You could also check this x10 build for some aggregate numbers. | (JP) BT (With CC ): 5m 12s | (JP) BT (Without CC ): 5m 44s | (WP) BT (With CC ): 13m 43s | (WP) BT (Without CC ): 13m 39s | ↩

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