Review Board is a web-based collaborative code review tool, available as

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under the

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. An alternative to Rietveld and

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, Review Board integrates with

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, CVS,

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, and

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. Review Board can be installed on any server running

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and is free for both personal and commercial use. There is also an official commercial Review Board hosting service
RBCommons
Review requests can be posted manually or automatically using either
REST Web API
or
Python script

Users

Some of the notable users of Review Board are: *

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Review Board all-in-one installer

RBCommons Review Board hosting
Software review Free software programmed in Python Software using the MIT license {{free-software-stub

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