Back in November 2009 I was on vacation in San Francisco and decided to drop by the Google campus in Mountain View to visit some friends. Of all the things the

Back in November 2009 I was on vacation in San Francisco and decided to drop by the Google campus in Mountain View to visit some friends. Of all the things they showed me there, Mondrian (of which Rietveld is a fork of) impressed me the most. More so than dinosaur skeletons, space ships, 3D Google Earth terminals, or free amazing meals. I was working in a startup at the time and we did not do code review at all. After seeing the Google workflow and having their build processes explained to me in detail, I was trying to set up code review before commits at the startup too. I hoped to improve code quality with this. Unfortunately the tools we tried were terrible and so it never took off. To this day, not getting the necessary processes in place remains one of the biggest regrets of working there. Now I work at another place where we don't do that either. Too bad.