umgeher's changelog

Review Board is a pow­er­ful web-based code review tool that offers devel­op­ers an easy way to han­dle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large com­pa­nies and offers a vari­ety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process.

For too long, code reviews have been too much of a chore. This is largely due to the lack of qual­ity tools avail­able, leav­ing devel­op­ers to resort to e-mail and bug tracker-based solutions.

We’ve seen a lot of time and energy wasted doing code reviews both in open source projects and at com­pa­nies. In both cases, code reviews were typ­i­cally done over e-mail. A sig­nif­i­cant amount of time was spent in form­ing review requests, switch­ing between the diff and the e-mail, and try­ing to under­stand what parts of the code the reviewer was refer­ring to.

So in an effort to keep our san­ity and improve the process both in our open source projects and at com­pa­nies, we wrote Review Board. We hope it will be use­ful to your team too so you can focus on what’s impor­tant: writ­ing great products.

http://www.reviewboard.org