Checking if cassandra is running, before making nodetool connect call.
Updating release version
Merge pull request #186 from sagarl/1.1.a

Checking if cassandra is running, before making nodetool connect call.
Updating Max num of retries in BoundedExponentialRetryCallable
Merge pull request #187 from sagarl/1.1.a

Updating Max num of retries in BoundedExponentialRetryCallable
ignore maven dirs
Update codequality/checkstyle.xml

Removing as it appears to no longer be available in the latest version of checkstyle that comes with gradle 1.4
Upgrading to Gradle 1.4
Switching to bintray for dependencies (same as Maven Central)
Move gradle-release dependency to bintray
Use newer version of license-gradle-plugin that fixes skipExistingHeaders field
rev number
rev number
changing org name for libthrift
Add sonatype snapshot repository
Using latest features of release plugin
Upgrading release process
Matching wrapper to 1.5
Automatically aggregate and publish docs (java,groovy,scala)
Make uploadMavenCentral task, that encompasses other tasks