Jonathan Zacsh

@seabelis how about proposal 1a, or 2: do those sound possible to you? While _I'm_ not available to work on this any time soon, I'd guess the fastest help to...

Oh interestingly: #7904 seems to be a newer (2years later) rethink of the data structure involved here. I'd guess it's important that whatever is proposed here should be coordinated closely...

**edit**: done in #1400: (overloading this issue) should probably also upgrade codeql (also past EOL) per steps in https://github.blog/changelog/2023-01-18-code-scanning-codeql-action-v1-is-now-deprecated/#what-do-i-need-to-change-in-my-workflow per this output in our ci/cd output: > Error: This version...

apparently (5 year old PR) this can be somewhat automated: https://github.com/dtinit/data-transfer-project/pull/936 FYI for whoever tackles this issue going forward

once this is done, we can probably cleanup (or see if newer gradle versions can help point out unused deps) obsolete deps like log4j, per #1031