One of the things Chris­t­ian and I looked at as we were get­ting Review Board off the ground was the tech talk on Mon­drian. At the time, it was dis­ap­point­ing to us that Google had cre­ated this great tool, and kept it inside. Well, it’s still inside, but Guido has just announced a pub­lic code-review project based on the idea of Mondrian.

I played around with the demo server he’s got run­ning, and it’s still pretty rough — a lot like Review Board was back when we first did our first pub­lic announce­ment. Since that time, we’ve had an amaz­ing ride, with lots of con­tri­bu­tions and the build­ing of a fairly vibrant com­mu­nity. I wish the yet-to-be-named Mondrian-like project sim­i­lar luck; code review is one of those things that can be a major drag, and hav­ing an excel­lent tool makes all the dif­fer­ence in the world.

Just as a reminder, if you’re involved in this year’s Google Sum­mer of Code as a mentor/student/organization, we’re offer­ing to host a server for you.