[Python-Dev] We should be using a tool for code reviews

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:41, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:32:19 -0700
> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> I would like to recommend that the Python core developers start using
>> a code review tool such as Rietveld or Reviewboard. I don't really
>> care which tool we use (I'm sure there are plenty of pros and cons to
>> each) but I do think we should get out of the stone age and start
>> using a tool for the majority of our code reviews.
>
> He, several of us would like it too (although for short patches it
> doesn't really make a difference), but what's missing is some kind of
> Roundup integration. Something as trivial as a "start review" button in
> front of every uploaded patch file would do the trick; it has been
> suggested several times already, but what's needed is someone to write
> the code :)

The other option (as discussed on Buzz) is to add Rietveld's upload.py
to Misc/ and tell people to use that to submit the patch. Then we
simply say to the person submitting the patch, "upload it to Rietveld
and paste in the link" or simply require it upfront to encourage
people to do the upload in the first place. This would let usage to
move forward until we get that "start review" button (wasn't Ezio
looking into it?).