Gwen, you may be right about the tarball and site, but javadoc artifacts are a standard Maven thing (along with jars and sources jars), eg see here:  http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/scala-lang/scala-library/2.11.7/  IDEs and other tools can use those jars.  @omkreddy, will the docs classifier in Gradle generate a jar with the javadoc suffix in the name? 