Ability to mention releaseVersion and releaseVersionCode via gradle command arguments

[SathyaKrishnaPrabhuTadepalli]

[REQUIRED] Use case description

One way of using mainline source, we can use the gradle task publishReleasePublicationToMavenLocal
It will publish all the libraries to maven local and the consuming app can import these libraries.
To publish a version, the parameter releaseVersion in constants.gradle has to be updated.

Proposed solution

We can have a better way to specify the release version via gradle command arguments.
For this to work the following changes has to be done in constants.gradle
releaseVersion = findProperty('releaseVersion') ?: '1.5.0-alpha01'
releaseVersionCode = findProperty('releaseVersionCode') ?: 1_005_000_0_01

./gradlew publishReleasePublicationToMavenLocal -PreleaseVersion=2025.08.08-Dev

Alternatives considered

Workaround is to update the constants.gradle only

[icbaker]

If you are depending on the library locally, I think you can probably just make this change yourself in constants.gradle without needing to upstream it?

I'm afraid we are unlikely to make our versioning & publishing logic any more complex than it already is - so are unlikely to make this change.