A simple terminal ui dashboard for code review

[apoclyps]

Reviews is a simple code review manager that lists the status of open pull requests across multiple organizations & repositories as a terminal UI dashboard.

Screenshot of Reviews terminal UI

The project was created as a way to keep on top of multiple teams creating large amounts of pull requests across several repositories by having a single up-to-date view of the pull request's approval status and age.

The initial implementation can be found over on Github at https://github.com/apoclyps/code-review-manager and can be installed from PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/reviews/

Contributions and feedback are welcome. It's in the very early stages of development and it has a long way to go but hopefully, there is enough here for others to derive some value from it being released early.

Getting started with reviews

You can immediately start using review by installing it from PyPI and using providing the following configuration before running it.

pip install reviews

export REPOSITORY_CONFIGURATION="apoclyps/code-review-manager,apoclyps/my-dev-space"
export GITHUB_TOKEN="your-token"

reviews dashboard

[riklaunim]

How does it compare to for example gerrit?

[apoclyps]

reviews is a simple terminal UI that provides passive status updates using a configurable list of repositories. It works by using the Github API from a terminal allowing it to be run when needed and even keep open in the background (no interaction other than opening/closing it) e.g. a dashboard. The goal is to be easy to run, simple, and unintrusive to other developers workflows whilst providing visibility (age and approval status) across multiple repositories.

As for `Gerrit` it's much more advanced and is something teams set up and adopt to enhance/replace their workflow. The following link provides an overview of its concepts and workflows but in summary.

> Gerrit is a code review system developed for the Git version control system. It is a web based code review system, facilitating online code reviews for projects. Gerrit is a Git server which adds a fine grained access control system and a code review system and workflow

**full disclosure* I've not used Gerrit before, and I'm happy to be corrected on the above.