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+# Reviewboard Plugin for Intellij
+- [Download](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7872)
+
+Description
+-------------
+This plugin integrates Reviewboard in intellij for code reviews. 
+This plugin tries to ease interaction with ReviewBoard server from the IntelliJ IDE.
+
+Features
+-------------
+* Do reviews directly from your IDE
+* View all, pending or submitted reviews
+* Compare (Diff) changes in review locally
+* Submit changes to the reviewboard server
+* Comment on reviews
+* Submit/Discard Reviews
+
+Limitations
+-------------
+* Viewing multiple reviews is not supported
+* Updating diff is not supported
+
+Plugin Compatibility
+-------------
+This plugin was built with JDK 1.7 and idea 15 version.
+
+How to install it?
+-------------
+Download this plugin from your IDE (Reviewboard Plugin)
+
+Project Setup
+-------------
+Required Plugins:
+* Git4Idea
+* Subversion
+
+JDK: 1.7
+
+You'll need to setup the appropriate SDK. IntelliJ SDK and plugin dependencies are required to be setup.
+
+Currently we're developing against version 15
+
+* Go to File -> Project Structure
+* Click on SDKs
+* Click on plus icon at top of second pane -> IntelliJ IDEA Plugin SDK
+* Browse to home of IntelliJ IDEA 15
+* It should be named 'IDEA-IU-XXXX'
+* Open Module Settings 
+* In depedencies add git4idea and svn4idea from lib directory and set scope as "provided"
+* Click ok