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4.0.5
Subversive is an Eclipse Team Provider for Subversion (SVN). Subversive is Technology sub-project. Release 4.0 will be available as a part of Neon simultaneous release. The goal of this release is improving of the plug-in stability, error handling, its level of integration with the Eclipse Platform facilities and enhancing SVN integration API constants with Java enumerations.
The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".
APIs
- API conforms with Eclipse Quality standards
- API description: http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/integrations.php
Architectural Issues
- Subversive supports Team API introduced in Eclipse 3.0 and Eclipse 3.2
There are no known security issues.
User documentation
- Documentation is a part of Subversive distribution and is automatically integrated into Eclipse help
- Available on site: http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/documentation/index.php
Developer documentation
- Architecture review, list of extension points and integration examples available on site: http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/integrations.php
IP Issues
- IP process followed
- IP Log: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=technology.subversive
- Project is released under EPL
UI Usability
- Follow User Interface Guidelines
- Make Subversive close to CVS as much as possible
- Use best practices for professional UI: care about controls layout, use input validators, use standard icons, etc.
- Pursue continuous UI review inside the team
- Implement usability features suggested by the community
Tool Usability
- Subversive provides support for all operations available for SVN clients. It means that it can be used as a fully-functional Eclipse SVN client and as a replacement of the original SVN client.
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Subversive provides a set of unique features that improve usability for developers:
- Support of repository layouts recommended by Subversion
- Revision browsing
- Automatic search of Eclipse projects in the repository
- Revision graph
There are no API changes in this release
The Subversive project supports:
- Eclipse Platform 4.4.x and higher
- JDK/JRE 1.6.x and higher
- Migration from SVN version 1.1.x-1.6.x to SVN 1.8.x and higher.
- SVN version 1.8.x using SVN 1.8 compatible connectors.
- SVN version 1.9.x using SVN 1.9 compatible connectors.
- Active communication with the community through Mailing lists, Newsgroup, Bugzilla, etc.
- Active users community: more than 500 downloads per day
- Project has a Developers and Integrators community and benefits from six integrations with open-source and commercial tools; other integrations are expected
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