Review Board
Extensible and friendly code review tool for projects and companies of all sizes.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 61% of tracked projects; popularity more than 45%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 1.7k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | release-8.0 · 9 Jun 2026 |
| Repo updated | 19 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | Python, Docker |
Is Review Board actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 450 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 121 of them.
The most recent tagged release, release-8.0, is about 4 months old.
Review Board ranks #14 of 45 in Software Development - Project Management, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Review Board actually does
Review Board is a self-hosted code review tool designed to help development teams inspect, discuss, and track changes to source code. It provides structured workflows for developers to submit patches or pull requests, receive feedback from peers, and iterate on code quality before merging. The project is distributed under the MIT licence and built with Python.
Best fit: It is a suitable fit for engineering teams that require an independent, self-hosted platform specifically dedicated to code review and asynchronous developer collaboration.
Worth knowing: You should consider that it occupies a crowded space alongside integrated Git hosting platforms with native code review, meaning adoption may duplicate existing toolsets.
Deployment notes
Because the application runs via Docker and relies on Python, you will typically need to configure persistent storage for uploaded files and attach a separate relational database backend.
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