Eclipse Subversive SVN Team Provider 3.0
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Subversive is an Eclipse Team Provider for Subversion (SVN). Subversive is Technology sub-project. Release 3.0 will be available as a part of Mars 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 last one is the critical task requiring a lot of work and leading to breaking API changes, however it is very fruitful in regards of improving code quality and plug-in stability,
The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".
New Features (since Luna release)
- improved SVN error handling facilities
- improved integration with Eclipse Platform facilities
- Usability improvements
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
The masked constant ISVNConnector.Options.DISALLOW_MIXED_REVISIONS of 2.x version will be removed and the constant ISVNConnector.Options.ALLOW_MIXED_REVISIONS with the same value will be added since there was a semantic error in its naming.
- Subversive requires J2SE 1.6 and Eclipse 4.3 or higher
- Versions compatible with previous versions of Eclipse are available at the previous project location on polarion.org
- Subversive supports SVN 1.7 – 1.8 and migration from SVN 1.6 and earlier versions.
- 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