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Review Board

Extensible and friendly code review tool for projects and companies of all sizes.

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Still maintained? Yes: 148 commits in the last 90 days, latest release release-8.0 (Jun 2026).

Comparisons in Software Development - Project Management: GitHub alternatives, Atlassian Bitbucket alternatives, Docker Hub alternatives.

Docker #11 of 45 in Software Development - Project Management

At a glance

Review Board quick facts

Health score
93/100 GOOD
Stars
1,729
Last commit
today (Oct 2026)
Latest release
release-8.0, Jun 2026
Licence
MIT
View reviewboard/reviewboard on GitHub ↗ Website ↗

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In its own words

The project's README opens: "Review Board_ is an open source, web-based code and document review tool built to help companies, open source projects, and other organizations keep their quality high and their bug count low."

Why it ranks here

Health score explained

Review Board scores 93/100, #11 of 45 in Software Development - Project Management: 148 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (release-8.0, 5 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,729 stars add 13.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 7.0 more points.

Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.

  • Commit activity 35.0 / 35

    148 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)

  • Release recency 25.0 / 25

    release-8.0 released 5 months ago

  • Stars biggest shortfall 13.0 / 20

    1.7k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)

  • Not archived 10.0 / 10

    Repository is active

  • Docker support 10.0 / 10

    Docker image or Compose file available

Commit activity

545 commits over the last 12 months
148
Last 90 days
545
Last 12 months
today
Last push

Ranked #11 of 45 tools in Software Development - Project Management by health , between Octobox (#10) and eigenfocus (#12) .

Details

LicenceMIT
PlatformsPython, Docker
Latest releaserelease-8.0 · 5 months ago
Stars1,729
Open issues0
DockerYes
Repositoryreviewboard/reviewboard ↗
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Review Board vs its top 5 alternatives

Active tools that share a category with Review Board (Software Development - Project Management), scored on the same five terms.

Tool Health Stars Licence Last commit
Gitea 99 59k MIT today
OpenProject 97 17k GPL-3.0 today
Leantime 96 12k AGPL-3.0 today
Review Board (this tool) 93 1.7k MIT today
eigenfocus 92 944 ⊘ Proprietary today
Gerrit 67 1.2k Apache-2.0 today

Review Board: common questions

Is Review Board still maintained?

Review Board had 148 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, release-8.0, is from 5 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.