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Every­one seems to be lov­ing review board. Here’s some of the crazy stuff that’s hap­pened this last cou­ple weeks:

• For about a day, a link was fea­tured promi­nently on programming.reddit.com and some­what less promi­nently on reddit’s main page. Unfor­tu­nately, Christian’s blog entry was inac­ces­si­ble for some of this time, because the traf­fic took down his web server!
• On June 1, we were PythonWare’s (the authors of the ubiq­ui­tous Python Imag­ing Library) Daily Python URL.
• Patrick Far­rell wrote an LDAP authen­ti­ca­tion back­end to inte­grate with his environment.
• Robin Eric­s­son has been work­ing on a CVS repos­i­tory back­end.
• We’ve had 91 bugs and fea­ture requests filed so far (a few of those were pre-announcement) and a whop­ping 67 of those are fixed and closed.
• We’ve gath­ered a lot of google juice. Haven’t quite stolen the top spot yet.
• Chris­t­ian reg­is­tered http://review-board.org, and set up a super-cute web site and a demo server (since invit­ing peo­ple to look at our pro­duc­tion server was a big mistake).

Here’s what some folks using the sys­tem are saying:

Review Board is so awe­some it brings tears to my eyes. We’ve been need­ing this so badly for so long, and now it’s here and it’s bet­ter than my wildest dreams! Thank you so much! Also, thanks for mak­ing it free!

Just so you know, the peo­ple in my team that use Review­Board are lov­ing it! Thank you!

These two emails have had us glow­ing like proud grand­moth­ers. Who says open source is a thank­less job?