Archive for May, 2007

For some reason, code review tools topic is my “soft spot”, and I keep watching the area hoping to find the ideal solution. Until now, the closest thing to my ideal was Mondrian code review tool by Python author, Guido van Rossum. The excellent Mondrian video presentation is here, and I highly recommend it for everyone who interested in code review tools. Too bad, the Mondrian is tightly tied to Google infrastructure and is not open source.

But today I saw the announcements (here and here) by VmWare engineers who just published a new code review tool, Review Board, written also in Python, but unlike the Mondrian, under open source license, and immediately available! There is also an online demo site, to play with the new tool. The Review Board supports Perforce and Subversion (for now), and looks great.

I’ll play a little bit more with the Review Board, and report back.

Here’s a list of cqME, JT harness and ME Framework bloggers that I’m aware of:

• Mikhail Gorshenev
• Alexey Popov
• Alexander Glasman
• Vladimir Sizikov (yeah, that’s me)

Mikhail has just started blogging. Misha, welcome to the club.