# reviewboard/reviewboard

An extensible and friendly code review tool for projects and companies of all sizes.

Repository: https://github.com/reviewboard/reviewboard
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/reviewboard
Homepage: https://www.reviewboard.org/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: code-review, codereview, python, javascript, developer-tools
Last push: 2026-08-26T07:34:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 75, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6220, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 85, "gap_med": 70, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1727, forks 438 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:28.239439+00:00)

## What it is
Review Board is an open-source, web-based code and document review tool supporting many version control systems like Git, Perforce, Mercurial, and Subversion. It offers a rich diff viewer, review workflows, an extension framework, and a REST API, deployable on-premises or via hosted plans.

## Use cases
- self-hosted code review tool for my team
- review code diffs before merging
- review documents and PDFs alongside code
- automated code review with linters
- code review tool that works with Perforce
- track review approvals and audit history

## When to choose
- you need on-prem or air-gapped code review with broad VCS support
- your team reviews documents and designs as well as code
- you want extensible review workflows with an API and plugins

## When to avoid
- you want a lightweight GitHub pull-request-style flow tightly coupled to GitHub
- you prefer a modern single-container SaaS-first tool with minimal setup

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: code-review, web-framework, api-framework, plugin-system, search-engine, documentation
- domain: developer-tools, version-control, web-development
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: code-review, diff-viewer, document-review, rbtools, self-hosted, web-server, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- reviewboard/reviewboard (main) score 91

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.239439+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:32:29.181210+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/reviewboard/reviewboard (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.239439+00:00, sha 10bc705e8a1d)
  - homepage: https://www.reviewboard.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:09:18.318131+00:00, sha 8e76a05ec738)
  - site_page: https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/latest (fetched 2026-08-29T11:09:18.327404+00:00, sha e901d2ee8824)
  - site_page: https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/reviewboard (fetched 2026-08-29T11:09:18.330152+00:00, sha 1150a603def2)
  - site_page: https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/rbtools/latest (fetched 2026-08-29T11:09:18.333958+00:00, sha a4a41be1e388)
  - site_page: https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/rbtools (fetched 2026-08-29T11:09:18.335779+00:00, sha bcc873e0bdd0)
  - site_page: https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/reviewbot/latest (fetched 2026-08-29T11:09:18.337463+00:00, sha efe48bcf8d35)
  - site_page: https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/reviewbot (fetched 2026-08-29T11:09:18.339112+00:00, sha a4237e7fff64)
  - site_page: https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/rbgateway/latest (fetched 2026-08-29T11:09:18.340677+00:00, sha d6dcc5172aeb)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/reviewboard/json (fetched 2026-08-29T11:09:18.343336+00:00, sha d0ffdc1a742d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.