[Configuration Cache] Disable Configuration Cache on CI (V1)

[ParaskP7]

Related (Gradle 8.12.1 & AGP 8.8.1): #21690

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 8.8 and AGP 8.5.1 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	15m 1s	14m 41s	-20s (✅)	2s	2s	0s (☑️)	11m 28s [2.03x]	11m 8s [1.73x]	-20s (✅)
WordPress App	12m 53s	16m 32s	+3m 39s (❌)	2s	3s	+1s (❌)	9m 54s [2.02x]	12m 16s [1.75x]	+2m 22s (❌)
Jetpack Lint	5m 22s	4m 47s	-35s (✅)	2s	2s	0s (☑️)	2m 2s [6.22x	1m 55s [5.79x	-7s (✅)
WordPress Lint	5m 55s	5m 20s	-35s (❌)	3s	3s	0s (☑️)	2m 13s [6.06x	2m 4s [5.13x	-9s (✅)
WordPress Unit Tests	5m 0s	5m 21s	+21s (❌)	2s	2s	0s (☑️)	2m 2s [5.4x]	2m 14s [4.3x]	+12s (❌)
Processors Unit Tests	2m 49s	3m 37s	+48s (❌)	1s	1s	0s (☑️)	7s [1.43x]	10s [1.39x	+3s (❌)
Image Editor Unit Tests	3m 13s	3m 27s	+14s (❌)	1s	1s	0s (☑️)	12s [4.98x]	14s [4.11x]	+2s (❌)
FluxC Unit Tests	3m 22s	3m 41s	+19s (❌)	1s	1s	0s (☑️)	32s [3.18x]	38s [2.12x]	+6s (❌)
Login Unit Tests	3m 35s	3m 39s	+4s (❌)	1s	1s	0s (☑️)	31s [2.89x]	34s [2.61x]	+3s (❌)

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)	17m 8s	14m 55s	-2m 13s (✅)
Without BC (With DC)	17m 44s	15m 43s	-2m 1s (✅)
With BC (Without DC)	7m 18s	6m 14s	-1m 4s (✅)
With BC (With DC)1	4m 56s	5m 33s	+37s (❌)

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 8s | (JP) BT (Without CC ): 5m 18s | (WP) BT (With CC ): 13m 35s | (WP) BT (Without CC ): 13m 34s | ↩

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