Show some love to the Subversion plugin

[Kevin Funk]

On Wednesday 28 January 2015 13:03:05 Kevin Funk wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> It'd be nice if someone who deals with Subversion (and consecutively, with
> our KDevelop SVN plugin) regularly could step up and show the Subversion
> plugin some love.
> 
> Unfortunately I'm not that person who's still using SVN a lot these days (I
> bet most of the KDevelop devs neither), so we'd need some fresh blood here.
> Still, I consider SVN-support a must-have feature of an IDE.

So, I've just spent a bit time on the re-activating the plugin.

> There are multiple issues with the Subversion plugin in KF5:
> - It's currently not even compiled because it's

I just enabled it again -- compiles fine

>   - considered crashy

Not sure about that

>   - has failing unit tests

Actually, they succeed.

> - Needs to be ported away from kdelibs4support
>   - Lots of of KDialog->QDialog porting involved, tricky

This still needs to be done of course 

> - Licensing issues downstream [1] for 4.x + 5.x:
>   - Not even shipped on Debian/Ubuntu in 4.x,
>     trying to resolve that via help from Kubuntu packagers atm

Reported upstream, will be fixed. It's only an issue on Ubuntu, which kept an 
old patch around.

> So, any takers for maintaining the Subversion plugin a bit?

Still like to see someone spending a bit time polishing and double-checking if 
the plugin still works as intended.

> Of course, it's the same story for our CVS plugin...
> 
> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322225

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