Review Bot is a tool for automating tasks on code uploaded to Review Board, and posting the results as a code review. Review Bot was built to automate the execution of static analysis tools.
The Review Bot worker is the service component of Review Bot that performs the code reviews, managed by the Review Bot extension. Workers on be installed on a single server, or can be distributed across several, helping to review large numbers of changes at once.
Supported Code Checking Tools
The Review Bot worker can perform automated code reviews using any of the following tools:
checkstyle - A static analysis tool that provides a variety of checkers for Java code
Cppcheck - A static analysis tool for C/C++ code
CppLint - Checks C++ code against Google’s style guide
flake8 - A wrapper around several Python code quality tools
PMD - A static analysis tool that provides checkers for many languages
pycodestyle - A code style checker for Python code
pydocstyle - A static analysis tool for Python docstring conventions
pyflakes - A static analysis tool for Python code
See the links above for installation and usage instructions.
Installing the Review Bot Worker
The worker is provided through the reviewbot-worker Python package.
See the documentation to learn how to install and configure the worker and the rest of Review Bot.
Getting Support
We can help you get going with Review Bot, and diagnose any issues that may come up. There are three levels of support: Public Community Support, Private Basic Support, and Private Premium Support.
The public community support is available on our main discussion list. We generally respond to requests within a couple of days. This support works well for general, non-urgent questions that don’t need to expose confidential information.
Private Support plans are available through support contracts. We offer same-day support options, handled confidentially over e-mail or our support tracker, and can assist with a wide range of requests.
See your support options for more information.
Our Happy Users
There are thousands of companies and organizations using Review Board today. We respect the privacy of our users, but some of them have asked to feature them on the Happy Users page.
If you’re using Review Board, and you’re a happy user, let us know!
Reporting Bugs
Hit a bug? Let us know by filing a bug report.
You can also look through the existing bug reports to see if anyone else has already filed the bug.
Contributing
Are you a developer? Do you want to help build new tools or features for Review Bot? Great! Let’s help you get started.
First off, read through our Contributor Guide.
We accept patches to Review Bot, Review Board, RBTools, and other related projects on reviews.reviewboard.org. (Please note that we do not accept pull requests.)
Got any questions about anything related to Review Board and development? Head on over to our development discussion list.
Release files for reviewbot-worker 4.1
For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.
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