# A build workaround makes a developer the team's expert

DevFeed: [A build workaround makes a developer the team's expert](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/become-a-gradle-expert-in-3-easy-steps-30458.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dev.to/autonomousapps/become-a-gradle-expert-in-3-easy-steps-3em5>)

Author: Tony Robalik

Published: 2023-06-15T19:47:18Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [DEV Community: Tony Robalik](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dev-community-tony-robalik.md>)

Topics: [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [inclusive](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inclusive.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [jcenter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jcenter.md>), [jokes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jokes.md>), [mavencentral](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mavencentral.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

A humorous three-step account of a developer resolving a build failure caused by a jcenter outage by replacing jcenter with mavenCentral. After the same failure recurs, the team treats the developer as its expert.

## Source excerpt

Step 1. Your build fails "for no reason" and your small team has no dedicated build support. Everyone is complaining in Slack and you can't bear to look at another poor quality Geordi meme. You copy a portion of the stacktrace and paste it into Google. Turns out jcenter is experiencing yet another outage. You look at the suggested workarounds and do a find-and-replace: s/jcenter/mavenCentral. Your build works again! You don't really understand why, but you also don't care. Back to writing beautiful UI! Step 2. Your build fails "for no reason" and your small team has no dedicated build support. Everyone remembers that you fixed it last time and ask you to look into it. Step 3. Now you're the expert. Congrats!