DjangoCon: ReviewBoard

Posted on September 6th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi

Presented by: Christian Hammon, David Trowbridge

Review-Board is a python/django based code-review application. In 2004 VMware was approx. 600 employee’s and already had a rigorous code-review process in place. At first simple HTML snippets were emailed around. Fast forward to 2007 and the company had grown to 5000 employee’s, and the previous system of email around snippets was unmanageable.

And thus Review-Board was born.

Earlier in the day Guido mentioned that he wrote a similar, python based code review tool that is used internally at google. I’ll try to dig that up and make a follow up post.

Stats: 2 core developers, 74 contributors, 295 mailing list members.

I’ll be installing this on my own dev box — In the future expect a post or two about how it intergrates with other tools I like (git/svn, trac…etc)

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