[JIRA] [subversion] (JENKINS-18935) Make Subversion plugin support Subversion 1.8

Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:53:27 -0700

aristedes commented on Improvement JENKINS-18935

@Kanstantsin

I think you are just seeing frustration from people who don't know how else to assist. At any rate, my question is not "can we fork this plugin". Obviously anyone can do that. The real problems here are:

  • svnkit has been modified in some way for Jenkins. My guess is that that's the root cause of the problem with upgrading. There is no documentation for this modification that I could find and when I tried to diff the modified version against the original svnkit I found it hard to know what versions to diff against.
  • this happens every single time svn is upgraded. svnkit lags about 6 months behind svn itself, and Jenkins sometimes lags another 12 months behind that.
  • if I put in the hours to rip out svnkit and replace it with calls to command line svn or javahl, will that change be accepted back into the project? I have no interest in maintaining my own fork of this plugin forever.
  • alternatively, could someone document why svnkit needs to be modified so that either someone else can pick up the work or figure a way to use plain vanilla svnkit? I am guessing that this is the bulk of the work needed each time svnkit updates.
  • finally, although Kohsuke was trying to help by getting 90% of the changes done, this has effectively stopped anyone else working on the problem since we are all waiting for the last 10%. Do we continue to wait or should someone else start again?
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