Gerrit (software)

Gerrit
Original author(s) Google
Stable release 2.11 / April 17, 2015
Written in Java, Servlet, GWT
Operating system Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
Available in English
Type Code review
License Apache License v2
Website code.google.com/p/gerrit/

Gerrit is a free, web-based team code collaboration tool. Software developers in a team can review each other's modifications on their source code using a Web browser and approve or reject those changes. It integrates closely with Git, a distributed version control system.

Gerrit is a fork of Rietveld, another code review tool. "Gerrit" is the given name of Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964), a Dutch designer after whom Rietveld is named.[1]

History

Gerrit was developed at Google by Shawn Pearce (founder of JGit) for the development of the Android project.[2]

Starting from a set of patches for Rietveld, also a software review tool, it became a fork and evolved into a separate project when ACL patches wouldn't be merged into Rietveld by its author, Guido van Rossum.[3]

Design

Originally written in Python like Rietveld, it is now written in Java (Java EE Servlet) with SQL since version 2. Gerrit uses Google Web Toolkit to generate front-end JavaScript code from Java source.[4]

Notable users

See also

References

  1. Guido van Rossum (May 2008). "An Open Source App: Rietveld Code Review Tool". Retrieved 2012-08-24.
  2. http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/40855/Interview-with-Gerrit-project-leader-Shawn-Pearce.aspx
  3. "Gerrit Background - The history behind Gerrit Code Review". Gerrit project. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
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  8. "Too Smart for Git".
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  10. "Using Gerrit Code Review in an Open Source Project".
  11. "Managers Become the Flywheel".
  12. "We're moving to GitHub".
  13. "Google Web Toolkit Blog". Retrieved 2013-07-13.
  14. "Introducing Gerrit - Code Review and Community Contributions".
  15. "Gerrit for LibreOffice". 2012-06-16. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  16. "gerrit.libreoffice Code Review". Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  17. "Wikimedia engineering moving from Subversion to Git — Wikimedia blog". Blog.wikimedia.org. 2012-02-15. Retrieved 2012-06-21.
  18. "Gerrit". MediaWiki. 2012-06-12. Retrieved 2012-06-21.
  19. "Gerrit Workflow". OpenStack Wiki. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
  20. "Introduction to Gerrit". Qt Project. 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
  21. "Gerrit Code Review". Codereview.scilab.org. Retrieved 2012-06-21.
  22. "TYPO3 Core repository migrated to Git". 2011-03-11. Retrieved 2013-01-26.
  23. "TYPO3's Gerrit Code Review". Retrieved 2013-01-26.
  24. "Gerrit - Tizen Developers".
  25. "Improving Operations Efficiency with Puppet". 2015-04-17.
  26. "Puppet Camp Paris: Improving Operations Efficiency With Puppet". shell-tips.com. 2015-04-20.

External links

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Git/Gerrit Code Review
MediaWiki has documentation related to: Gerrit