Rietveld is a web-based collaborative code review tool for
Subversion
Subversion () refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to transform the established social order and its structures of power, authority, hierarchy, and social norms. Sub ...
written by
Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum (; born 31 January 1956) is a Dutch programmer best known as the creator of the Python programming language, for which he was the "benevolent dictator for life" (BDFL) until he stepped down from the position on 12 July 2018 ...
to run on
Google's cloud service
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over multi ...
. Van Rossum based Rietveld on the experience he had writing Mondrian. Mondrian was a proprietary application used internally by Google to review their code.
''
Gerrit'' is a
fork
In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from la, furca ' pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tines with which one can spear foods ...
of Rietveld started because
ACL patches would not get integrated into Rietveld.
Rietveld was named by its author Guido van Rossum after
Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.
Early life
Rietveld was born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888 as the son of a joiner. He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at ni ...
, who was "''one of
ossum'sfavorite Dutch architects and the designer of the
Zig-Zag chair
The Zig Zag-chair is a chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld sometime between 1930 and 1934.
It is a minimalistic design without legs, made by 4 flat wooden slabs (originally in Elm, now in pine wood) that are merged in a Z-shape using dovetailed a ...
.''"
See also
*
List of tools for code review
This is a list of collaborative code review software that supports the software development
Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating an ...
References
External links
Rietveld
Software review
Free software programmed in Python
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