The Jenkins gradle plugin does not automatically trigger builds of downstream dependencies.

For example. Say we have projects a, b, and c where c depends on b and b depends on a.

If I build a, the gradle plugin should automatically build project b, and then automatically build project c.

This information could be gleaned through the generation of a dependency graph using the dependencies section of each build.xml.

Of course these dependencies can be configured in Jenkins manually, but that adds a lot of manual intervention for something that should be automatic.