Begin documenting the gradle resolver (#1389)

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 The Maven-backed resolver will use credentials stored in a `$HOME/.netrc`
 file when performing dependency resolution
 
+### Configuring Gradle
+
+**This resolver is considered experimental**
+
+A Gradle-backed resolver can be used by setting the `resolver`
+attribute of `maven_install` to `gradle`. This resolver requires the
+use of a lock file. For bootstrapping purposes, this file may simply
+be an empty file.
+
 ## IPv6 support
 
 Certain IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack environments may require flags to override the default settings for downloading dependencies, for both Bazel's native downloader and Coursier as a downloader: