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A lot of management practices are used to optimize to current state of the projects and get the situation under control, but it does not always work as intended. Unfortunately, many people think that just applying the required process does the trick, however, in many cases it does not. I've published the presentation Management Tactics regarding that, and you can find the corresponding notes with the detailed explanations below.

Review Board is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process. Review Board is written in the Python programming language and makes use of the Django web framework. Installation   Install auxiliary packages if needed and all its dependencies: $ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools $ sudo apt-get install python-svn $ sudo apt-get install python-subversion $ sudo apt-get install apache2 $ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-python $ sudo apt-get install git Clone the ReviewBoard package and install it: $ git clone git://github.com/reviewboard/reviewboard.git $ cd reviewboard $ sudo python setup.py develop Also install post-review tool: $ sudo easy_install -U RBTools Set up the required site for the ReviewBoard (for Apache/SQLite backend, otherwise - see Cr...

Due to latest changes in projects hosting situation (like FTC Sues, Shuts Down N. Calif. Web Hosting Firm , Adobe acts against Flash video stream recorder ) I started thinking about moving on to some DVCS system. Now there are only two serious alternatives: Git and Mercurial . First of all, here are two good articles where these systems are compared: Chosing a distributed VCS for the Python project Analysis of Git and Mercurial In both of these articles Mercurial wins due to: lack of good Git support in Windows system; having Python API. But also in both of these articles it is said that Git has more features and is more powerful than Mercurial. Actually none of the issues above does not concern me personally because I'm not developing in Windows OS now, and I do not require any integration with DVCS. But let me notice that these issues are not so critical right now: there is an awesome TortoiseGit project and it works really good; basically only certain hooks ...