It would be nice to put a time out feature on a generic task itself. We're experimenting with using gradle to run system tests and they can hang indefinitely... we could always just use Ant's timeout feature... but I'd prefer for gradle to have something.

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Is there a follow up issue created in github? I have been trying to find a way to implement timeouts during execution rather than using junit timeouts inside test classes. I still haven't figured how to do it.

@Sunar So far there's no issue for it yet. Would you mind helping us out by creating it?

Added https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/1096

Thanks for creating the issue on GitHub.

@William Can you help with the workaround for this issue, till it gets addressed? I haven't been able to figure it out myself yet. Thanks!!