Hi Pali, I am working on history plugin and will attempt to revive it (almost done) so that we have atleast one backup option. I think it will be best to get this working first and then move on to create a more efficient one.
I am also working on the diff between the rebased kf5 and kf5 branch and looking at each cases. I will update issues on phabricator. Regards, Vijay Krishnavanshi