[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Invitation to try out open source code review tool (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri May 2 23:25:52 CEST 2008

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > Some of you may have seen a video recorded in November 2006 where I > showed off Mondrian, a code review tool that I was developing for > Google (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMql3Di4Kgc). I've always hoped > that I could release Mondrian as open source, but it was not to be: > due to its popularity inside Google, it became more and more tied to > proprietary Google infrastructure like Bigtable, and it remained > limited to Perforce, the commercial revision control system most used > at Google.

I was salivating over that video, so I'm really excited be able to try out something like it now.

> Don't hesitate to drop me a note with feedback -- note though that > there are a few known issues listed at the end of the Help page. The > Help page is really a wiki, so feel free to improve it! My request at the moment is to let people use their real names for display; my email address does not at all resemble my name.

I've noticed. Surely there's an interesting story there. :-)

The feature request is on my TODO list. The design is a bit involved, since I'd have to ask people to register and maintain a userid -> nickname mapping; the Google Account API we're piggybacking on only gives you the email address. Once it's open sourced (Monday?) I'd love to see contributions like this!

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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