Review Board

Last updated
Review Board
Original authors Christian Hammond and David Trowbridge
Initial releaseMay 17, 2007;18 years ago (2007-05-17) [1]
Stable release
7.0.4 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 6 August 2025;4 months ago (6 August 2025)
Repository
Written in Python, Django [3]
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English
Type Code review
License MIT License [4]
Website www.reviewboard.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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

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An alternative to Rietveld and Gerrit, Review Board integrates with Bazaar, ClearCase, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Perforce, and Subversion. [5]

Review Board can be installed on any server running Apache or lighttpd [6] and is free for both personal and commercial use. [7]

There is also an official [8] 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: [9]

See also

References

  1. "Review Board". 17 May 2007.
  2. "Release 7.0.4". 6 August 2025. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  3. "Frequently Asked Questions".
  4. "Review Board". 27 October 2021.
  5. "Determining Repository Information" . Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  6. "Frequently Asked Questions".
  7. "Frequently Asked Questions".
  8. "Beanbag".
  9. "Happy Users" . Retrieved 18 October 2013.