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Codebrag – Daily code review tool

71 points by dcu 10y ago

brudgers 10y ago
Original 'Show HN': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7772085 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7772085
falcolas 10y ago
Really needs a screencast or similar; I get what the tool is for, but it's really hard to see why or how it works without investing time and effort in setting it up and running it myself.
- thomasahle 10y ago
  Click on the link to the main website http://www.codebrag.com/ http://www.codebrag.com/ and there is a 4 minute video.
- tedmiston 10y ago
  There is one, but it's several clicks away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ahIZCBzr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ahIZCBzr8
  - andrewem 10y ago
    That video would be much more compelling to me if it had narration, and explained why the basic concept of their product is better (for at least some cases) than the built-in code review features on GitHub and similar services. Or maybe their target audience is teams that aren't doing any code review, in which case they ought to explain how it would work for them.
FanaHOVA 10y ago
How's this better than Github's review? Must be a pretty big reason to add a new tool to our team's flow.
pseudoramble 10y ago
Where I work we use Bitbucket for code reviews. Their code review setup works well for us. We especially enjoy the "like" button that Codebrag also seems to have. It doesn't seem like Codebrag is very much different from this though. A big way to differentiate for me would be if you could create "groups" or "teams" of reviewers. Say we have three teams sharing a code base. We could create a group for each of those teams. Then when someone opens a review I add the groups I need to look at it instead of the individuals on those teams. One question I would have too is what is a "commit" in Codebrag? Is it literally review commit-by-commit, or is it more like a Pull Request in Github/Bitbucket terms? If it's the latter, I would rename it to not make the terms confusing.
polskibus 10y ago
How does this compare to Phabricator? What's the best open source tool for code review these days ?
- prds 10y ago
  How about gerrit?
strictfp 10y ago
How does non-blocking work? I'm interested in this, but didn't find much info.
- allendoerfer 10y ago
  You do not review pull requests, but stream of commits. The code author then gets a stream of reviews.
tedmiston 10y ago
It looks about the same as GitLab's merge request / code review feature to me. The being able to dismiss a commit is different, but I'm not sure I understand that feature. When I'm doing a big review, I copy the list of files into a text document and check them off after I finish each one. I've found that especially useful when the order of the files requires a lot of jumping around to follow the flow. I'd like to see this feature supported by a code review tool.
- piotrkaminski 10y ago
  Reviewable supports per-file (and per-revision) check-offs. :) (Disclosure: I built it.)
neandrake 10y ago
Has there been a recent update with Codebrag? I try to keep an eye on the available code review tools and this one was last updated a while back. The last release/commit/tweet was last June.
- marcinkuzminski 10y ago
  Have you seen this too ? https://rhodecode.com/blog/123/rhodecode-460-release-new-approach-to-code-review https://rhodecode.com/blog/123/rhodecode-460-release-new-app...
  - neandrake 10y ago
    Yea I saw that was recently updated. I'm excited to see tooling be updated for Mercurial. I was hoping the recent updates and re-release as open source of RhodeCode would spur some updates from the Kallithea project.
partycoder 10y ago
I think this overlaps a lot with what github is already offering. In github you can start a code review from a comment, mark a review as blocking, require at least an approving review prior to merge, etc... You can also add hooks for automated tests, etc.

71 points by dcu 10y ago

Original 'Show HN': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7772085 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7772085

Really needs a screencast or similar; I get what the tool is for, but it's really hard to see why or how it works without investing time and effort in setting it up and running it myself.

thomasahle 10y ago
Click on the link to the main website http://www.codebrag.com/ http://www.codebrag.com/ and there is a 4 minute video.
tedmiston 10y ago
There is one, but it's several clicks away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ahIZCBzr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ahIZCBzr8
- andrewem 10y ago
  That video would be much more compelling to me if it had narration, and explained why the basic concept of their product is better (for at least some cases) than the built-in code review features on GitHub and similar services. Or maybe their target audience is teams that aren't doing any code review, in which case they ought to explain how it would work for them.

FanaHOVA 10y ago

How's this better than Github's review? Must be a pretty big reason to add a new tool to our team's flow.

pseudoramble 10y ago

Where I work we use Bitbucket for code reviews. Their code review setup works well for us. We especially enjoy the "like" button that Codebrag also seems to have. It doesn't seem like Codebrag is very much different from this though. A big way to differentiate for me would be if you could create "groups" or "teams" of reviewers. Say we have three teams sharing a code base. We could create a group for each of those teams. Then when someone opens a review I add the groups I need to look at it instead of the individuals on those teams. One question I would have too is what is a "commit" in Codebrag? Is it literally review commit-by-commit, or is it more like a Pull Request in Github/Bitbucket terms? If it's the latter, I would rename it to not make the terms confusing.

polskibus 10y ago

How does this compare to Phabricator? What's the best open source tool for code review these days ?

prds 10y ago
How about gerrit?

strictfp 10y ago

How does non-blocking work? I'm interested in this, but didn't find much info.

allendoerfer 10y ago
You do not review pull requests, but stream of commits. The code author then gets a stream of reviews.

tedmiston 10y ago

It looks about the same as GitLab's merge request / code review feature to me. The being able to dismiss a commit is different, but I'm not sure I understand that feature. When I'm doing a big review, I copy the list of files into a text document and check them off after I finish each one. I've found that especially useful when the order of the files requires a lot of jumping around to follow the flow. I'd like to see this feature supported by a code review tool.

piotrkaminski 10y ago
Reviewable supports per-file (and per-revision) check-offs. :) (Disclosure: I built it.)

neandrake 10y ago

Has there been a recent update with Codebrag? I try to keep an eye on the available code review tools and this one was last updated a while back. The last release/commit/tweet was last June.

marcinkuzminski 10y ago
Have you seen this too ? https://rhodecode.com/blog/123/rhodecode-460-release-new-approach-to-code-review https://rhodecode.com/blog/123/rhodecode-460-release-new-app...
- neandrake 10y ago
  Yea I saw that was recently updated. I'm excited to see tooling be updated for Mercurial. I was hoping the recent updates and re-release as open source of RhodeCode would spur some updates from the Kallithea project.

partycoder 10y ago

I think this overlaps a lot with what github is already offering. In github you can start a code review from a comment, mark a review as blocking, require at least an approving review prior to merge, etc... You can also add hooks for automated tests, etc.