Review Board

One of the pioneers of modern code review

Screenshot of code being reviewed in the diff viewer

When we started out in 2006, code review mostly meant e-mailing diff files back and forth. We wanted a better way, and began inventing many of the code review features that have since become industry standards.

We built what you know and love today, and are pioneering what you'll use tomorrow.

Review code in any language on almost any source code management system (Git, Subversion, Mercurial, Perforce, ClearCase, and many more) with abilities including:

Multi-line commenting
Moved code detection
Smart indentation-aware line changes
Commenting on any line in a file, even outside the diff
Tracking the evolution of any change, making it easy to see what's new since your last review.

Design with image and graphics review

Game developers, UI/UX developers, and technical writers often have to collaborate on the creation of images, screenshots, and mockups.

Review and diff images directly in Review Board, including mockups, screenshots, gamedev assets, SVGs, and AI-generated art, with features including:

Contextual commenting on regions of images
Side-by-side image diffs
Color-based image diffs
Adjustable transparent image diffs

Document review like no other

Whether a document lives in your source tree or is uploaded directly to a change, you can review design specs, safety requirements, architecture diagrams and more right alongside the code they describe.

Documents can be diffed to show exactly what changed between revisions, keeping reviews focused and efficient. Highlight text or select regions to leave precise, contextual comments. Jump through the document using the table of contents or thumbnail previews.

Document Review supports:

Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
OpenOffice/LibreOffice documents (Writer, Calc, Impress)
Google Workspace documents (Docs, Sheets, Slides)
PDF documents

Goodbye Pull Requests, hello Review Requests

Review requests collect code changes, screenshots, mockups, documentation, and other files and assets all in one place, and where you'll go to track your task's reviews, discussions, CI build statuses, modifications, and audit trails.

They're more than just a Pull Request.

Review, discuss, and track issues so nothing gets missed

A review with a comment on text of a document

Review Board's reviews don't bury important discussions and tasks somewhere in a diff viewer like most pull requests do.

Each review is a self-contained discussion between you, the reviewer, and anyone with something to contribute. All in one place, threaded, and easy to follow.

Comments are shown alongside relevant sections of code, images, or documents, giving you all the context you need to follow along, and can be expanded to see more.

Comments may open an issue, a To Do item that must be addressed before the work is approved. This way, no important task gets missed.

Every review request you care about, all in one place

Screenshot of the Review Board dashboard

Review Board's Dashboard gives you a birds-eye-view of everything that matters for your day. Every review request waiting for your review, and every one of your review requests waiting for reviews from others. Featuring:

Filtering review requests by groups and projects
Helpful visuals for determining review status
Several customizable sortable columns to choose from
Bulk-closing, archiving, and muting of review requests

Automatically review code with Review Bot and CI solutions

Screenshot of Review Bot automated code review results.

Review Board integrates with Continuous Integration and code checking solutions to provide automatic reviews on your code.

Jenkins, CircleCI, and Travis-CI are supported out of the box, and with our free Review Bot add-on, you can connect to a wider collection of tools. You can even craft your own in Python!

Integrate with the services you're already using

A review from a person with an intern role

A Slack notification of the review to an interns channel

Get Slack or Microsoft Teams notifications when review requests and reviews are posted, updated, or approved. Sync tasks automatically with project management tools like Asana. Log in with SAML 2.0 Single Sign-On using identity providers like Okta and OneLogin. Or build your own integrations to connect with virtually any service in your workflow.

Review Board currently integrates with:

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Command line users will love it!

~/src/projectgit checkout my-feature

~/src/projectrbt post HEAD
```
Validating commits...
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Uploading commits...
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Review request #2 posted.
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https://demo.reviewboard.org/r/2/

https://demo.reviewboard.org/r/2/diff/

~/src/project

~/src/projectgit checkout main

~/src/projectrbt land --push my-feature

Merging branch "my-feature" into "main".

Review request #2 has landed on "main".

Pushing branch "main" upstream.

~/src/project

~/src/projectcat ~/.reviewboardrc
```
ALIASES = {
```
```
    'test-patch': (
```
```
        '!git clone . /tmp/test-repo-$1 &&'
```
```
        'cd /tmp/test-repo-$1 &&'
```
```
        'rbt patch $1'
```
```
    ),
```
```
}
```
~/src/projectrbt test-patch 123

Cloning into '/tmp/test-repo-123'...

Applying 1 patch from review request #123 (diff revision 1)

/tmp/test-repo-123

~/src/projectrbt status

+----------+-------------------------------+------------------------+

|  Status  |         Review Request        |         Branch         |

+==========+===============================+========================+

| Ship It! | r/123 - Fix a UI regression   | ui-work/regression-fix |

+----------+-------------------------------+------------------------+

| Draft    | r/128 - Redo session handling | sessions/refactor      |

+----------+-------------------------------+------------------------+

/tmp/test-repo-123

Our RBTools command line tools can be used to post changes for review, land changes in your tree, test out other users' reviews, check the status of your review requests, and much more.

Its built-in Python API can be used to craft custom solutions, IDE integrations, and automations useful to your team.