Restructure the project to utilize included builds (#3174)

* Refactor and simplify artifact publishing
* Update Gradle to 8.4
* Refactor and simplify convention plugins and build scripts

Fixes #3132

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Co-authored-by: Adam <897017+aSemy@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Oleg Yukhnevich <whyoleg@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/build-logic/README.md b/build-logic/README.md
index e8d18cbd..884eb582 100644
--- a/build-logic/README.md
+++ b/build-logic/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,18 @@
-# About build-logic Module
+# build-logic
 
-This module aims to share common build logic for whole projects, previously we were using [buildSrc](https://docs.gradle.org/7.6/userguide/organizing_gradle_projects.html#sec:build_sources),
-but for some reasons like "A change in buildSrc causes the whole project to become out-of-date", we are migrating to [composite builds](https://docs.gradle.org/7.6/userguide/composite_builds.html),
-which avoids the side effects of buildSrc.
+This project aims to share common build logic between subprojects.
 
-For more information, you can ref https://proandroiddev.com/stop-using-gradle-buildsrc-use-composite-builds-instead-3c38ac7a2ab3.
\ No newline at end of file
+In principle, this is similar to `buildSrc`, but this project utilizes [composite builds][1] to avoid various 
+[inconvenient side effects][2] of `buildSrc`.
+
+For more information, see [Sharing Build Logic between Subprojects][3]
+
+___
+
+Note: the filename pattern used for convention plugins is inspired by how Gradle configures its 
+own convention plugins; [example project here][4].
+
+[1]: https://docs.gradle.org/7.6/userguide/composite_builds.html
+[2]: https://proandroiddev.com/stop-using-gradle-buildsrc-use-composite-builds-instead-3c38ac7a2ab3
+[3]: https://docs.gradle.org/8.4/userguide/sharing_build_logic_between_subprojects.html
+[4]: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/tree/b165da7de15e70afb6cac564bf4aadf16aa157b3/build-logic/jvm/src/main/kotlin