Suggestion for SoC

Hi,

Since there's some discussion about what issues could be used for SoC,
I'd like to add one more:

Issue #901 : http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=901

Now, this issue is almost four years old. The reason I think it's still
open is that the command line client doesn't really need it, or it's not
very important for it. But there are many UI clients out there which
really need this. Users of UI programs are used to get some feedback
about what's going on, and if they don't they're not comfortable.
Imagine you go to sourceforge, click on a 10MB file for downloading it
and you won't see anything (maybe only "please wait while download is in
progress") until the file is completely downloaded or failed. You expect
from a browser to show you how far along the download is, how fast the
download is going, and how long it will approx. take until it's finished.
With Subversion, that's currently not possible. Ok, I've implemented
some very basic info for ra_dav, but ra_svn and ra_file still don't give
any feedback. And of course, the ra_dav feedback is only good for
showing the data transfer speed. There's no indication on how much data
has to be sent/received for the whole operation.

I think this issue is big enough to keep a student busy during the
summer, but still not so big or complicated that it couldn't be
finished. And it can be done in stages, which is nice because even if it
doesn't get finished the parts already done can be used.

Stefan

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