[Python-Dev] Invitation to try out open source code review tool

[Guido van Rossum]

This code is now open source! Browse it here:

  http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/source/browse

--Guido

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Some of you may have seen a video recorded in November 2006 where I
>  showed off Mondrian, a code review tool that I was developing for
>  Google (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMql3Di4Kgc). I've always hoped
>  that I could release Mondrian as open source, but it was not to be:
>  due to its popularity inside Google, it became more and more tied to
>  proprietary Google infrastructure like Bigtable, and it remained
>  limited to Perforce, the commercial revision control system most used
>  at Google.
>
>  What I'm announcing now is the next best thing: an code review tool
>  for use with Subversion, inspired by Mondrian and (soon to be)
>  released as open source. Some of the code is even directly derived
>  from Mondrian. Most of the code is new though, written using Django
>  and running on Google App Engine.
>
>  I'm inviting the Python developer community to try out the tool on the
>  web for code reviews. I've added a few code reviews already, but I'm
>  hoping that more developers will upload at least one patch for review
>  and invite a reviewer to try it out.
>
>  To try it out, go here:
>
>     http://codereview.appspot.com
>
>  Please use the Help link in the top right to read more on how to use
>  the app. Please sign in using your Google Account (either a Gmail
>  address or a non-Gmail address registered with Google) to interact
>  more with the app (you need to be signed in to create new issues and
>  to add comments to existing issues).
>
>  Don't hesitate to drop me a note with feedback -- note though that
>  there are a few known issues listed at the end of the Help page. The
>  Help page is really a wiki, so feel free to improve it!
>
>  --
>  --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>



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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)