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Usually, you should not use such a start/stop task pair at all.
The better option is a shared build service.
But I'm not sure how that would work either in the context of such a composite build.

Thanks. Can you recomend a resource or two on shared build service I can look into?

<https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_services.html>