We intend to review work before merging to master, which is why we have an 
account on Review Board in the first place, to see if it can help.

Given the level of integration with github now, I think we can and should use 
pull requests for intra-team work just like we already do for requests from 
outside of the group with commit bits.

B.

On 19 Feb 2014, at 12:45, Florian Westreicher Bakk.techn. <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> That's also how we did it. It seems the most sensible way to handle reviews.
> 
> I would really encourage you all to try reviews, they are a great way to 
> improve code quality. They are quick to create and quick to read. A typical 
> review takes less than 20 minutes. 
> 
> Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On 19 Feb 2014, at 03:13 , Florian Westreicher Bakk.techn.
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> The patch creation is simple but the real  problem is the culture.
>> Review board assumes pre commit Reviews where on fact the code is
>> usually already pushed, which makes the review post commit. 
>> 
>> That’s why we use feature/fix branches. The review happens before the
>> code lands on master (or other release branch). In our git world,
>> pre/post commit is pre/post push.
>> 
>> Jan
>> --
>> 
>>> 
>>> Robert Samuel Newson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I think we should use github instead (especially as the integration
>>>> continues to improve).
>>>> 
>>>> The 'upload patch file' approach for Review Board makes it a
>>>> non-starter in my opinion. (Yes, we could insist every participant
>>>> installs command lines tools to finesse that, but come on)
>>>> 
>>>> B.
>>>> 
>>>> On 18 Feb 2014, at 18:25, Florian Westreicher Bakk.techn.
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I have used review board in the past. It's easy to use but you can
>> do
>>>> most of it on 
>>>>> github nowadays. Just open pull requests, others can review and
>>>> comment them. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It's been two weeks since we got our Review Board set up. But it
>>>> looks
>>>>>> like nobody is using it. Is this something we want to continue
>>>> using?
>>>>>> Does someone want to draft some documentation for it? (Or just go
>>>>>> first and get the ball rolling?)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://reviews.apache.org/groups/couchdb/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
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