Review Board Explained

Review Board
Author:	Christian Hammond and David Trowbridge
Released:	^[1]
Programming Language:	Python, Django^[2]
Operating System:	Cross-platform
Language:	English
Genre:	Code review
License:	MIT License^[3]

Review Board is a web-based collaborative code review tool, available as free software under the MIT License.

An alternative to Rietveld and Gerrit, Review Board integrates with Bazaar, ClearCase, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Perforce, and Subversion.^[4]

Review Board can be installed on any server running Apache or lighttpd^[5] and is free for both personal and commercial use.^[6]

There is also an official^[7] commercial Review Board hosting service, RBCommons.

Review requests can be posted manually or automatically using either a REST Web API, or a Python script.

Users

Some of the notable users of Review Board are:^[8]

• Cisco
• Citrix
• Novell
• NetApp
• Twitter
• VMware
• Yelp
• Yahoo
• LinkedIn

• Apache Software Foundation
• HBase
• Calligra
• Konsole
• Amazon
• Cloudera
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Tableau Software

See also

• List of tools for code review

External links

• • • Review Board all-in-one installer
• RBCommons Review Board hosting

Notes and References

1. Web site: Review Board. 17 May 2007.
2. Web site: Frequently Asked Questions.
3. Web site: Review Board. 27 October 2021.
4. Web site: Determining Repository Information. 18 October 2013.
5. Web site: Frequently Asked Questions.
6. Web site: Frequently Asked Questions.
7. Web site: Beanbag.
8. Web site: Happy Users. 18 October 2013.